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higher education college
| weekly manual meter readings; degree days automatically downloaded from web service
| discovered that 40% of main campus electricity use was unexpectedly attributable to weather because of unauthorised heaters
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| chemical works operating distillation columns
| automatic transfer from process control system
| detected when operators bypassed a heat recovery unit; enabled optimisation of production on lowest-energy units
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| pharmaceuticals factory
| automatic meter reading; own weather station
| detected simultaneous heating and cooling
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| headquarters office building
| monthly manual meter readings and published degree-day data
| found electric frost-protection heaters running in air handling units and cut consumption by 40%
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| microelectronics factory
| weekly manual meter readings; degree-day data automatically downloaded from web service; production statistics downloaded from management system
| detected major waste in nitrogen plant due to component failure; detected heating boilers running idle
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| data centre
| monthly manual meter readings, own degree-day logger
| detected unauthorised heating of office building converted to storage use.
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| borough council
| monthly data entry and analysis by outside bureau
| detected interference with time control on heating at a depot
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| brewery
| weekly meter readings and key production statistics imported from existing management spreadsheets
| detected electricity lost through throttling of borehole pumps
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