If you want to reduce your energy costs or carbon emissions, Shell Energy can help.
Using your own data and overlaying our sophisticated analytics, we can guide you in delivering the right energy efficiency solutions for your business. We also have the engineering and turnkey project management capabilities to implement your energy projects on time and on budget.
Shell Energy designed a customised energy strategy for our client, Urban Utilities, that helped them achieve significant energy savings.
Our Energy Management Centre (EMC) was integrated with Urban Utilities’ SCADA system to closely analyse and monitor their sub-metering data. To maximise investment in the EMC, we appointed and trained on-site energy advisors to monitor all systems and processes. Through this monitoring, Shell Energy was able to identify additional energy savings opportunities.
The outcome: the mains electricity consumption for the site was reduced by 1.8 gigawatt hours from 2018 to 2019, resulting in energy cost savings of $200,000.
LOUISE DUDLEY, CEO – URBAN UTILTIES One of the significant costs of running a sewage treatment plant is the cost of energy. We really wanted to look at how we could reduce the energy intensity of our plants.
SONJA TOFT, MANAGER PROCESS ENGINEERING – URBAN UTILTIES So we had already installed sub-metering across our largest treatment plant sites. And we were looking to partner with Shell Energy to gain support in developing a tool to make the energy data more visible, just to ensure that we’re operating our assets as efficiently in terms of energy as possible.
LOUISE DUDLEY, CEO – URBAN UTILTIES They provided them with a visualisation tool so that they could actually visualise that in a way that they could easily understand and use the data. There was support provided to make sure that the capability of our staff was uplifted and that they had the appropriate training to use that. And as a result of that we have found savings.
MICHAEL PORTER, PRINCIPAL, EMC – SHELL ENERGY Urban Utilities are investing in innovation to improve processes on their sites. The EMC is providing them value by helping them assess the energy savings that come from these new innovative technologies. By utilising the existing sub-metering and process infrastructure on site, we’re able to deploy our Energy Management Centre with no additional capital expenditure on infrastructure.
PHIL GOODFELLOW, NATIONAL KEY ACCOUNT MANAGER – SHELL ENERGY So we are experts at solving energy issues and problems. And whilst carrying out the energy mapping, we came across two key problems for Urban Utilities. The utility meter was incorrectly reading, and secondly, the cogeneration engines were going on and off intermittently at peak times of day causing huge network charges. We were working with the plant operators and we came across this massive opportunity. They’d installed a new blower for the operations team from Urban Utilities. And we actually found that if we sequenced the blowers in a certain way, we could make huge savings. We locked down those savings and those savings today, are persistently there, that was a great win.
JAMES CONNOR, LEAD CONTROL SYSTEMS ENGINEER – ALLIANCE AUTOMATION Our relationship with Shell Energy Australia certainly increases our ability to value add and innovate in energy efficiency projects.
SONJA TOFT, MANAGER PROCESS ENGINEERING – URBAN UTILTIES Implementing energy efficiency through our operations and through our capital investments, we can get those benefits and reinvest them into other projects.
PHIL GOODFELLOW, NATIONAL KEY ACCOUNT MANAGER – SHELL ENERGY We can offer end to end solutions. We can analyse, we can identify energy efficiency savings because clients want to get on with business as usual. They don’t want to be disrupted. And that’s what we do best. We don’t disrupt. We get outcomes for the client.
At Shell Energy, we offer our large customers in the water and waste sector a full-service energy solution.
Delivered by engineers and backed by our powerful energy software, our Energy Management Centre (EMC) service will help you deliver on your energy goals.
A hands-on energy engineer will work with you to design your energy system, monitor, analyse and report on your energy performance, and to locate and solve issues. They’ll also use your data to tailor solutions to your needs, using proven technologies and a deep understanding of your business.
While Australia’s energy landscape has become increasingly challenging to navigate, there are many opportunities to offset the costs of your energy project.
At Shell Energy, we can help you to identify and access Australian Federal and State government certificate schemes and grant programs so that you can fund or offset the cost of your next energy efficiency project.
Our energy experts in the water and waste sector have the experience and expertise to help you reach your energy and sustainability goals.
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