The McNairy County News
April 30, 2014
A recent demonstration project at Pickwick Landing State Park Resort has created excitement throughout the state's park system about reducing energy usage and costs. The 4- week study, a joint effort of TVA, Pickwick Electric Coop, and Conservation, produced “eye popping†results. 44% savings in the hotel rooms and 64% in the cabins – and all without negatively impacting guest comfort convenience, according to park personnel.
The study evaluated Energy Technologies Group's S3E guest room energy management system – which had consistently shown 40% + savings in other parts of the country. Based on these results, plans are underway to install the S3E system throughout the state's park lodging network, which would generate an estimated savings of $350,000 annually when fully implemented.
Reducing and controlling energy use and demand are important to ALL the project participants. Reducing operating costs for the parks is an obvious interest, but the environmental impact is also a big interest for TDEC. And, reducing and leveling demand is important to TVA (a U.S. government corporation) and its distributors likes PEC, so they have a significant interest as well.
While the marketplace abounds with systems designed for this purpose, the U.S. Department of Energy studies have shown that rarely have such systems' performance met expectations. As a result, hotel operators – and these study participants as well – have understandably grown skeptical or manufacturers' savings claims. This EXTENSIVE study, then, separates ETG's system from the rest of the field by confirming and validating ETG's previous results from millions of hours of test and live operations around the country – providing hope that, at long last, a system that actually pays off DOES exist!
ETG's S3E system uses unique and patented operating methodology to do what no other system can do, achieving DOUBLE the energy and cost saving impact of competing systems (according to federal government studies). ETG is based in the Pittsburgh, PA area and is exclusively represented in the TVA service are by the Energy Solutions Division of Business Matters, Inc. of Selmer, TN. To contact Business Matters, call Mike Cain at 731-645-0257 (cmichaelcain46@ymail.com).
For more information on Energy Technologies Group and its industry leading S3E Energy Management System, contact Kevin Snyder at 704-780-3404 (ksnyder@energytechgroup.com).
