Case study - Link 51

LINK 51 manufactures industrial racking systems from a large factory in Telford.

The factory is heated by a number of warm air blowers and radiant tube heaters, with an annual heating gas consumption in excess of £40,000.

Obviously effective control of the heating was important to them as gas prices were starting to escalate, so in the Autumn of 2004 they asked Clarke Controls to install an energy management system to make some savings.

Prior to installing the system, Clarke's guaranteed to make reductions of 20%, however there was some degree of scepticism about the level of savings we were guaranteeing as they already had a basic energy management system in place.

After analysing the gas consumption it was found that the Clarke's energy management system had ACTUALLY saved over £19,000 in the first 12 months - more than double the guarantee.

The customer was very happy indeed!

Gas consumption prior to installation		Gas consumption after installation
Month	KWH	Month	KWH
June 03	520,348	June 05	346,117
May 03	536,862	May 05	558,242
April 03	649,953	April 05	688,482
March 03	980,288	March 05	733,791
February 03	1,008,658	February 05	897,501
January 03	873,295	January 05	993,343
December 02	908,280	December 04	477,061
November 02	1,141,878	November 04	606,100

After taking into consideration the gas used in the paint drying process, there was a reduction of 46.05% in heating gas and a saving of £19,161