Your Best Energy Management Option from RUMM
RUMM renowned for their innovative energy management services using Automatic Monitoring & Targeting to reduce business energy consumption.
Read a case study by RUMM on one of their clients - RPC Containers who had a 14% reduction in Specific Energy Consumption (SEC) in the first year.
The Client
The RPC Group is Europe’s leading manufacturer of rigid plastic packaging. With just under 50 autonomous sites in 12 countries, the company employs in excess of 6,500 people.
The Brief
RUMM was asked to investigate energy usage at RPC’s Llantrisant plant and provide solutions and suggestions for reducing the annual energy bill.
The Method
The installation at RPC was carried out in two stages.
Following the completion of the aM&T system, where 17 meters were installed across the site, a benchmarking exercise then took place in order to identify where energy was being used and equally where there was opportunity for savings.
RUMM and RPC then engaged in an energy management partnership to achieve savings. This included regular weekly meetings to discuss options that could save the company money.
The main areas targeted were chippers, high and low pressure compressors, dryers, leak detection, lighting and chillers. Site analysis was carried out based upon production output, and thus specific energy consumption (SEC) was analysed and this was benchmarked to fully understand energy consumption characteristics
The Results
As a result of the measures put in place; energy consumption in the first 5 months was reduced with specific energy consumption reducing by 14%. This equated to a £120k saving in the first year alone.
Why it Worked
The key for the success was the commitment from RPC to control costs and the close working Partnership with RUMM. The general manager was committed to the project and encouraged the whole company to make it a success.
“RUMM pushed us, the staff responded and with a target of a 17% reduction in 2 years, we achieved more than 10% in one year alone. The actions ranged from monitoring and targeting specific areas, to simply installing time switches on lighting – but the savings were there.On behalf of RPC Llantrisant, I have no hesitation in recommending RUMM to reduce your energy consumption.”
Manufacturing Manager, RPC Containers
What does energy savings involve?
RUMM are a leading energy management UK based in Wales who provide Energy Management Solution to customers via their own developed technologies (Pulse & IBASS) and Energy Management Services (EMS).
I can hear you asking what all this means for my company. The simply answer is to reduce energy consumption therefore saving money and contributing to a larger towards saving the planet. Let’s have a look at some of the ways RUMM uses their Energy Management Solution to assist your business especially Energy Reduction in Manufacturing
Applies RUMM‘s algorithm to calculate the amount of energy which could be saved through changes in scheduling and behavioural methods.
What is Pre Screening Tool (PreST)
- PreST analyses the variables in a customer’s energy consumption over a full year
- This is a unique approach to evaluate savings opportunity
How does it benefit the customer?
- Sites of all shapes and sizes, can ‘save and reduce energy’ with minimum capital expenditure and without compromising production
- Analysing a portfolio of sites identifies those who would benefit most from streamlining energy consumption
- Effects of energy savings interventions can be easilty assessed through direct comparisons pre and post PreST
- PreST compares a site to the best possible operation it’s already achieved, which is particularly useful to large portfolio customers with multiple sites across an organisation.
Does the customer need anything in place?
- No prior RUMM/npower products are needed
- PreST requires date of a full years’ worth of half hourly energy consumption for the site.
A typical customer might be
- Any site that has been in full operation for a year, needing information on their typical energy variation
- Companies interested in the potential of their site to save energy, or the potential to save energy across a group of sites.
Your Best Energy Management Option
Your Best Energy Management Option
Does your company take energy saving seriously?
Would you like to do something proactive in business energy reduction and play your part in saving our planet?
RUMM is a company that take their business and their clients very seriously and the results speak for themselves.
RUMM’s Business energy reduction UK main focus is to provide resources and expertise in design and deliver energy management services and solutions in partnership with its customers to achieve cost and carbon reduction. With the support of RUMM your company can achieve incredible results in energy consumption thus reducing a huge amount of cost.
This means that RUMM provide the resource and expertise to work with their customers for a contracted period to deliver measurable savings. “Energy Management Services” is 90% of what they do and includes using all available technologies (aM&T), Behaviour Change and bespoke training.
Have a read of the case study below as to the impact RUMM has had on Cardiff Metropolitan University.
A 7 year Partnership that has accrued more than £1m of savings and reduced the carbon footprint by 15%.
The Client
Cardiff Metropolitan University provides education and training opportunities that are accessible, flexible and of the highest quality. Cardiff Metropolitan has been acknowledged as the “greenest university” in Wales and one of the best across the UK. The University has been a customer of RUMM for over 7 years and the saving accrued are in excess of £1m.
The Brief
As part of the Partnership, RUMM were asked to work with Cardiff Metropolitan to focus upon increasing staff and student engagement by utilising the RUMM aM&T system to provide regular reporting. The goal was to provide reliable and accurate data to inform and motivate management throughout the university.
The Method
Working together, RUMM and Cardiff Metropolitan developed a 5-year plan to reduce utility consumption by 3% per annum. Monthly bespoke reports are prepared and presented to key managers within the University, detailing performance within their respective areas. RUMM’s energy account managers work closely with staff to identify and support Cardiff Metropolitan in realising savings.
Regular meetings are held in order to highlight opportunities for improvement and suggest practical ways in which these can be addressed.
The Results
All targets have so far been exceeded, and Cardiff Metropolitan is has to:
• Realised financial savings in excess of £1 million
• Achieved a reduction in its CO2 emissions by more than 15% which is equivalent to the amount of carbon annually absorbed by a forest of 650,000 trees
• Reduced water consumption by more than 45,000 m3 which is equivalent to 18 Olympic-sized swimming pools
These excellent results have contributed to Cardiff Metropolitan attaining its position as the greenest university in Wales.
Click here for the link to the People and Planet League Table. The Carbon Trust wrote an editorial on the success of the Behaviour Change Program employed at Cardiff Metropolitan University.
Why it Worked – behaviour change
The key to this project has been an increase in staff interest and engagement stemming from the provision of useful information. Provided with regular feedback, people have responded to achieve necessary reduction targets.
“Cardiff Metropolitan University has been delighted with how successful the aM&T methodology has proven in comparison with the more conventional approach involving technical projects”
-Paul Manley, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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