When comparing the management of renewable energy sources with each other including conventional energy sources, three main factors must be considered: capital costs; operating and maintenance costs. At AFSENERGIES, we strive to manage your energy system to achieve its full load potential by designing specific automated control and monitoring electromechanical devices to meet your specific needs.
ENERGY OPTIMIZATION
Optimizing the energy usage for facilities, buildings, and energy systems provides a clear insight on energy saving potential and financial modeling of investments to facilitate decision-making while reducing energy uncertainty. Our technical energy engineers provide both technical and advisory services for facilities, buildings, investors and clients in the development of optimization strategies. We also plan, audit and review the work of third-party energy services providers to optimize energy usage for clients. If you have any questions or require more information about how we can help optimize your energy, please contact us: energy@afsenergies.com
ENERGY AUDITING
An energy audit is the first step to assess how much energy your facility/home/energy systems consumes and to evaluate what measures you can take to make your facility more energy efficient. Our audit will show you problems that will, when corrected, save you significant amounts of money over time. Our audit tracks and provides you with a good understanding of energy consumption in your buildings and facilities including checks for leaks, examining insulation, inspecting the heating and cooling systems by using an energy infrared camera. Energy Audits will provide practical guidelines for:
• The continuous improvement on energy efficiency
• The identification of cost saving opportunities in energy consumption
At AFSENERGIES, we start with a detailed inventory of your energy consumption, before audit activities will be conducted to identify energy systems and facilities with particular focus on rationalizing their energy usage. Field measurements will be also taken to quantify critical operating parameters.
Following the establishment of an energy consumption profile, the potential energy saving opportunities can be identified. Energy management strategy can be organized and planned with reference to energy audit results. Our energy audit services can further provide a range of additional benefits.
The findings of an energy audit can be a good reference for your management in supporting commercial decisions. We believe that we are well equipped to deliver a robust solution that best suits your energy efficiency needs through our audits.
ENERGY MONITORING SYSTEMS (EMS)
At AFSENERGIES, our Energy Monitoring Systems monitor, control, and optimize the performance of your energy systems including grids and 0ff-grid. The monitor and control functions track, measures and records actual energy consumption periodically. By tracking energy consumptions over a given period of time, we will be able to establish a clear pattern of your power usage and energy needs, which is the critical first step in identifying and eliminating energy waste. We deploy monitoring hard wares, which combined with our proprietary software package will constantly measure and record your actual energy use. This also records source of power (grid, renewable or diesel generators), and helps track your energy consumption. The hardware connection to existing facility or building is seamless and does not interfere with building operations and existing systems. The measured energy data is provided real-time through our secure web application. This allows facility owners to remotely access information relating to their building’s energy use. In addition the information is summarized in periodic monthly reports which allows for more efficient management of energy consumption and costs. Energy data gathered includes:
• Total number of hours of energy usage (grid usage during the preceding month and number of hours of generator or renewable usage).
• Capacity utilization of energy generators measured in periodic intervals (percentage of generator capacity used relative to available capacity).
• Amount of energy consumed (using our application’s proprietary database and algorithms, based on generator run time and load draw, we can determine actual energy consumption to within -+ 5% accuracy).
• Average Peak load draw during reporting period (i.e. maximum and average KVa draw during reporting period).
SOLAR, WIND, HYDRO AND BIO-FUEL MAINTENANCE
For Solar systems, maintenance to meet a higher energy demand has never been easier with our expertise. We ensure that old systems come back to life, and non functioning batteries are replaced with highly efficient ones in the most innovative way you can imagine.
For Wind systems, maintaining a wind farm for high performance is a balancing act. It involves matching the right turbine technology and layout to the grid constraints, terrain and wind climate of a site while ensuring accessibility, limiting environmental impact, and optimizing financial performance. For Hydro systems, blockage can lead to over flooding. We partner with various organisations to ensure optimal performance of hydro reservoirs. We also provide Turbine optimization and maintenance. Bio-fuels systems are easy to maintain provided the right chemical properties are in place. We work with various bio-fuel and bio-diesel organisations to achieve maximum performance of the systems.
ESTATE ENERGY MANAGEMENT
We have experience designing, improving and managing the energy concept of all types of buildings and estates, under various climatic conditions: residential complexes, industrial buildings, health facilities, retail and offices. We deliver:
• Detailed simulations of combinations of building improvements to reduce energy needs
• Technology assessments and renewable energy feasibility studies
• Design of integrated low-energy buildings concepts, with high comfort levels and reasonable financial outlook
• Energy audits, optimization and backup energy systems. If you have any questions or require more information please do contact us: energy@afsenergies.com