Incentives Enbridge Gas Distribution is committed to helping you reduce your energy consumption and improve your bottom line. Find out how to make it easier for your business to be more energy efficient.
Heating is a significant challenge for any business in Canada. Our climate is cold for almost half the year. It is in the best interest of any business operator to control heating. Like payroll, it is a significant expense that can be managed. Thinking smart about heating; keep the heat in.
- Insulation – reinsulated roof space that has not been touched in 15 years. This will improve R factor significantly.
- Controls – Controlling the heating cycles will result in significant savings. As simple as programmable thermostats turning the building down at night and up during the day.
- It is smart to think passive heating. Heat exchanger units for banquet halls, when the hall is full, all of the exhaust hot air will warm a heat exchanger, taking the heat from the air and reusing it to warm the cool air coming into the building.
- Maintenance programs pay for themselves. This is a fact. One failure of a major roof top heating or cooling unit could affect your customers, staff, products, the building. Imagine losing the main heating unit for a weekend during a major winter storm. A roof top heater repair cost will be exacerbated by the plumbing and structural repairs required due to the frozen pipes!
Hot Water In the hospitality industry, hot water is a necessity. Uses include dishwashing, cleaning and laundry. Hotels also have the added energy load of guest using showers. Imagine over 1,000 showers taking place within the same 2 hour period. This is a lot of hot water!
- Renewable energy resources such as solar thermal hot water heating systems are a great way to reduce energy costs and be good to the environment. Preheating water can save as much as 30% of hot water costs.
- Conservation. Temperature controls should be set at minimum for public washrooms, teach staff to use cold water to clean when they are using a chemical as well.
- Outside the box thinking can result in savings. Technology exists today that captures the heat from plumbing, so as 1,000 hotel guest have showers, the hot water leaving the building can be stripped of its heat to reuse.
Cooking Energy savings opportunities for cooking are available through technological advances in ovens.
Pool Heaters Indoor pool heating can come from many sources other than gas furnaces. Solar heating systems provide superior heating, possibly requiring diversion of the hot water during the hottest summer days.
- Heat recovery within a hotel can be used for heating the indoor pool water
- Solar Thermal hot water systems can be used for indoor and outdoor pools