Facility Management

Keeping electricity costs down

hopping around for the best deals in electrical energy is a given. The problem is that the scope of good deals is limited in the oligopolistic Australian electricity market of today, and the options therefore boil down to one – reducing the usage of electrical energy. Obvious ways to do this include: installing thermostat controls, movement detectors for lighting, awnings and shades, make-up air for air-conditioning, and building insulation improvement and maintenance. It is assumed, however, that you are already attending to these energy saving methods. We therefore address the less obvious ones, often completely overlooked, but nevertheless important. This is the ‘electrical reticulation’ – everything by way of assets employed to get electricity around the building, shop floors, apartments, etc. But

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