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Energy
Opportunity: A shipbuilding facility in Mississippi had 1,000 100-watt lamps that burn 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
WESCO Solution: WESCO suggested replacing the 100-watt lamp with a 19-watt compact fluorescent lamp that yields the same amount and quality of light. The change saves 81 watts of energy for each of the 1,000 lamps for 8,760 hours per year at 6 cents per kWh, providing a substantial cost reduction.
Result: $42,573 Annual Energy Savings!
Energy
Opportunity: An electronic systems manufacturing facility in Utah was using T12 fluorescent lamps.
WESCO Solution: WESCO recommended replacing the T12 lamps with newer, more efficient T8 fluorescent lamps, which use less energy while providing the same lumens and a better color rendering index for higher quality lighting.
Result: $32,593 Annual Energy Savings!
Energy
Opportunity: A shipbuilding facility in Virginia wanted to save on energy costs in one of its buildings.
WESCO Solution: WESCO recommended replacing 60 existing 400-watt retrofit lamps with 4-lamp F54T5HO lamps, which consume only 216 watts of energy but provide comparable light output with better color quality. Based on its energy cost rate of 5 cents per kWh, the customer can expect to save $19,320 over the 20,000-hour rated life of the new F54T5HO lamps.
Result: $19,320 Lamp-Life Energy Savings!
Energy
Opportunity: A shipbuilding facility in Virginia wanted to save on energy costs in a 516,546-sq.-ft. steel fabrication shop.
WESCO Solution: WESCO suggested replacing 536 existing 1,000-watt high-pressure sodium lamps and ballasts with 875-watt pulse-start metal-halide lamps and ballasts. Based on its energy cost rate of 5 cents per kWh, the customer can expect to save $67,000 over the 12,000-hour rated life of the new lamps.
Result: $67,000 Lamp-Life Energy Savings!
Energy
Opportunity: A shipbuilding facility in Mississippi wanted to save on energy costs.
WESCO Solution: WESCO suggested reducing energy usage by controlling lights after hours in areas not used 24 hours a day. This was accomplished by installing panel boards with remote-control circuit breakers that can be controlled by a clock or by software. This way, lights can be turned off and on at set times each day, but customer personnel have the option of changing the settings if they need lights on after normal business hours on occasion. Based on an estimated savings of 100 kW per panel, 16 hours per day, 365 days per year, at a cost of 6 cents per kWh, each panel board saves $35,040 per year. The facility installed panel boards during 2007.
Result: $420,480 Annual Energy Savings!
Energy
Opportunity: A submarine manufacturing facility in Maryland had outdated fluorescent lighting fixtures in a 40-year-old building.
WESCO Solution: WESCO recommended replacing the outdated lighting with modern T8 and T5 technology, which offers better quality lighting in terms of both lumens and color rendering, as well as substantial energy savings. Motion sensors were provided where standard switches existed, and exit lights were changed over to more efficient LED technology. Because the facility has very little storage space, the WESCO Baltimore Branch stored the new lighting materials and delivered them to the facility as needed for installation by staff electricians rather than an outside electrical contractor, for additional cost savings. Along with an estimated $28,000 annual energy savings and the environmental benefits of lower-mercury lamps, elimination of PCP ballasts, and reduced pollution from power generation, WESCO saved a global security leader $45,000 in inventory-carrying, material, and labor costs on this facility-wide lighting upgrade project.
Result: $73,000 Savings!
Energy
Opportunity: A shipbuilding facility in Mississippi wanted to save on energy costs.
WESCO Solution: WESCO recommended installing Leviton occupancy sensors to control lighting in areas used only periodically or sporadically, where people may forget to turn off the lights when everyone leaves the room. Based on an estimated energy savings of 2,000 watts per hour, 5 hours per day, at 6 cents per kWh, each sensor yields an annual energy savings of $156. The facility installed 71 occupancy sensors during 2007.
Result: $11,076 Annual Energy Savings!
Working Capital
Opportunity: Personnel at a shipbuilding facility in Virginia were building custom GFCI inline plug boxes in-house at a material and labor cost of $372 each.
WESCO Solution: WESCO quoted a turn-key price of $254.67 each to have supplier Erickson build the same GFCI inline plug boxes to customer specifications — a savings of $117.33 per unit. The customer needed 823 units.
Result: $96,524 Savings!
Working Capital
Opportunity: A shipbuilding facility in Virginia needed 1,112 two-ft. fluorescent fixtures for temporary lighting during the 18-month overhaul of a carrier and requested pricing on a mil-spec fixture.
WESCO Solution: Because the fixtures were needed only for temporary lighting, WESCO recommended instead using a commercial lighting fixture that cost half as much as the mil-spec fixture and had a lead time of six weeks, as compared to the 100-day lead time for the mil-spec fixture.
Result: $156,721 Savings!
Working Capital
Opportunity: A shipbuilding facility in Virginia needed 100 custom orange string lights with 65-30 plugs and connectors molded to the cable. The price from the regular supplier was $677.05 each.
WESCO Solution: Rather than simply purchase the string lights from the supplier that had previously provided these lights, WESCO researched alternate suppliers in search of better pricing and found it with Erickson. Customer personnel reviewed and approved the Erickson drawing as an equal, and WESCO supplied the 100 Erickson string lights at $564.99 each, saving the customer $112.06 per unit.
Result: $11,206 Savings!
Maintenance
Opportunity: Customer personnel at a shipbuilding facility in Virginia was fabricating custom 60-amp power distribution panels in-house at a material and labor cost of $1,364.33 each.
WESCO Solution: WESCO quoted a turn-key price of $1,113.70 each to have a local OEM build the same 60-amp power distribution panels to customer specifications — a savings of $250.63 per unit. The customer needed 188 units.
Result: $47,145 Savings!
