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Article: Saving energy: new way to approach overall consumption.(PLANT: Efficiency Ideas)(Cover story)
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- Chem.Info
- Article date:
- August 1, 2007
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Saving energy is an important issue from both an environmental and energy cost perspective. The key question is: How can a substantial and sustainable reduction of energy consumption be achieved? The most credible solution is to establish an understanding of how users consume their energy and make them responsible for it. Sub-metering is an extremely powerful tool in measuring energy consumption. A new generation of wireless sub-metering electrical components--Wi-LEM or wireless local energy meters--dramatically reduces the total cost of ownership and makes the ROI for a sub-metering project much faster, especially for existing buildings. Wi-LEM makes universal submetering ...