January 22, 2007—Lime Energy’s Maximum Performance Group (MPG), a leading energy efficiency technology and engineering company, has completed the installation of its eMAC (equipment monitor and control) technology on heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems at all 132 Modell’s Sporting Goods stores.
The chain-wide installation included a total of 578 eMAC units totaling an energy reduction of approximately 7.4 million kilowatt hours per year, or an estimated 17 percent energy savings, well exceeding MPG’s original energy saving projections by 7 percent.
Total dollars saved from the project is expected to exceed $840,000 a year based on “energy cost avoidance” at an average price of electricity in the region of 12 cents per kilowatt hour, according to calculations by MPG.
By using the eMAC technology and hence less produced electricity from local utilities, MPG estimates it removed 4,700 tons of carbon dioxide emissions — believed to contribute to global warming — from the air which is equivalent to permanently removing the emissions of 918 passenger cars from the road. The amount of electrical energy saved is enough to power 545 households for a year.
The eMAC (equipment monitor and control) technology has been proven in a wide variety of industry applications from banks to electronics retailers to pet store chains. It enables companies to benefit from both energy savings and, if available, utility energy efficiency incentives by using the customer’s existing heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. The eMAC technology itself attaches to a company’s HVAC unit and uses wireless control capabilities to access control software developed and operated by MPG.
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