Energy Benchmarking

Andy Pearson

This article summarises the lessons learned about energy benchmarking over the last three years, as developed in a series of studies on the cold storage logistics business. The results were presented as papers at international conferences in Canada, Scotland, Japan, Macedonia, Norway and England The article uses real data from live sites to illustrate the various advantages gained by pursuing this goal and explains how to add this capability to an existing facility. The possibility of using similar techniques in other sectors is briefly discussed. Keywords: Refrigeration, Energy, Efficiency, Benchmarking, Prediction