Case study 案例

Operations Manager Luke Rhodes was sitting in his office at Tridon Australia, a manufacturer and distributor of automotive parts, when he got an unusual email.

It was from the utility company asking if something was wrong at their Sydney factory – the energy bill in one building had dropped a staggering 65% in four weeks.

    運(yùn)營經(jīng)理盧克?羅德斯（Luke Rhodes）坐在澳大利亞特里頓（Tridon Australia）的辦公室里，他是一家汽車零部件制造商和分銷商，突然收到一封不同尋常的電子郵件。這是一家公用事業(yè)公司打來的電話，詢問他們在悉尼的工廠是否出了問題：

    “一棟大樓的能源賬單在四周內(nèi)下降了65%，令人震驚?！?   

Instead of being worried, Rhodes and his colleagues were amused. “It was pretty funny,” he recalls. They were also pleased that their strategy to make their large industrial site more energy efficient had paid off.

For Tridon, their old compressed air system was the problem. Rhodes says it was pumping around 55 to 60 kilowatts while the rest of the facilities —air conditioning, heating, everything included— were around 18 to 20 kilowatts.  

    對(duì)特里頓來說，他們的舊壓縮空氣系統(tǒng)就是問題所在。羅茲說，它的抽水量約為55至60千瓦，而其他設(shè)施——空調(diào)、暖氣，包括所有設(shè)施——的抽水量約為18至20千瓦。

He says getting the government funding was easy and “serendipitous” as it happened just as they were assessing their compressed air system. The NSW government contributed $10,000 towards the project and Tridon pitched in $32,000. With the money they will save from their electricity bill dropping, Rhodes says they will break even in two years.

“I back the program 100% just for the sheer volume of money and energy you can save. It’s a no-brainer, really. I didn't anticipate that we’d get this much energy savings, so it's been fantastic.”