July 11, 2003—Onsite Energy Corporation, a comprehensive energy service company, has signed contracts totaling approximately $575,000 with two cold storage and food processing facilities to implement projects that focus on energy cost reductions and electricity demand reductions.
Onsite signed a contract for approximately $433,000 with Bonita Packing Company, a fresh vegetable pack producer in Santa Maria, California, for a project that includes a facility demand controls system, lighting controls, variable frequency drives on pressure cooling tunnel fans, and Onsite’s INSITE Real-Time Energy Monitoring System. Onsite estimates that Bonipak will save approximately 550 kW in peak demand and 700,000 kWh annually for a total of approximately $114,000 in utility cost savings. Onsite also is administering approximately $150,000 in combined incentives from Onsite’s Agricultural Peak Load Reduction Contract with the California Energy Commission and the Standard Performance Contract Program administered by Pacific Gas & Electric Company.
Onsite also signed a contract for approximately $142,000 with existing customer Del Mar Food Products Corporation, a custom packer of frozen foods and vegetables located in Watsonville, California, for a facility demand controls system. The system, similar to the one being installed at Bonipak, is designed to control peak demand at Del Mar Foods’ Watsonville facility and is estimated to reduce demand charges by a significant amount through peak demand reductions of about 400 kW. Onsite also is bringing approximately $60,000 in incentives to the project out of Onsite’s Agricultural Peak Reduction Contract with the CEC.
