What is the Payback of the EnergyFusion™?

The EnergyFusion™ energy management and control will result in a system employing different numbers of hubs and management systems dependent on the size, scale, and requirements of the building or buildings it is covering. Clearly this will result in different payback calculations.

Some general points are that EnergyFusion™ will deliver year-on-year benefits throughout its working life which will often be the lifetime of the building.

The Payback of the EnergyFusion™ system is affected by a number of factors (click on the areas of the diagram above) and not simply the energy savings.

The Payback is also clearly affected by what building services are managed. For instance if lighting is managed it is reasonable to expect an energy savings of say 40%. We expect to be able to deliver a similar level of savings for space heating. These two facilities would typically represent the biggest energy spend within the building.

The Payback on the EnergyFusion™ system is generally expected to be no more than three years.

Energy Reduction - 50%

EnergyFusion™ can significantly reduce the use of energy in an organisation. There are major opportunities for savings in providing more efficient heating and lighting services with buildings. For instance lighting can consume some 30 to 40% of the total energy bill for a building and 70% of this is typically wasted! (IEA). EnergyFusion™ might save 40 to 50% or more of the lighting energy within a building.

Specific savings will be contingent upon what is being managed – the more facilities such as Lighting, heating being managed the greater the savings. EnergyFusion™ can save 20% and more of the overall energy bill of an organisation!

Reduced Maintenance Costs - 25%

EnergyFusion™ incorporates a range of powerful features which radically ease and reduce the overheads of maintaining the facilities within buildings. For example the system provides timely alerts across the network which indicates when a fault condition or change of status arises. Prompts are issued at appropriate times to allow maintenance procedures to be initiated. The graphical interface provides a view of every system component – there is no need to walk the site. Set-up and configuration is performed graphically and is simplicity itself!
Making changes is a breeze! The on-board simulation capability allows changes to be set up and tested without disrupting the user community.
A wealth of logistic data needed to manage the system is held on the system itself and is available to management at the click of a mouse.

In fact there are a wealth of features which directly aid the maintenance task and our analysis estimates that savings in maintenance costs will be of the order of 25%. (Savings will be more evident dependent upon the size and scale of the building and/or whether there are multiple buildings involved).

Reduced Management Costs - 25%

EnergyFusion™ significantly reduces the overheads associated with managing a building or buildings. Firstly, management are placed in control at all times irrespective of location! The management system can be located within the building or remotely at some other site. Authorised staff can connect securely over the Internet. The system issues proactive messages and alerts when given energy levels are reached or when operational conditions change. Setting up control for lighting and facilities couldn’t be easier. The graphical interface allows a real time view of the facilities and where energy is being spent in the building. The system incorporates a fully featured asset management capability and reports are available on demand which give historic and trend information.

The rich set of features that directly aid the management will generate benefits in relation to the size and complexity of the building and the installation. As with maintenance, we estimate the savings value of this to be in the order of 25% of the current management costs.

Space & Change Management - 10%

EnergyFusion™ lends itself to Space and change management. Firstly changes can be configured graphically –without the need to physically visit the EnergyFusion™ hubs or site. This configuration can be carried out of line in Design Mode. The new model then created can be tested in Simulation Mode and when the changes have been verified the changes can be activated. This whole process can take place rapidly and without any disruption to staff. There is no experimenting with the user communities or need to relegate such changes to unsocial hours!

By using EnergyFusion™, in an environment where frequent changes are the norm we estimate that this will give 25% savings of the cost of change!

Building Value Appreciation + 10%

TheEnergyFusion™ will enhance the value of your buildings! It has been shown that adding powerful controls to a building such as EnergyFusion™ -which will enhance its energy sustainability, improve its flexibility for business, make it more aesthetically pleasing and increase the productivity of its staff - will enhance the value of the building.

This benefit is conservatively estimated to increase the value of the building by 10%