The ecomagination initiative has been designed to help facilities reduce energy consumption by utilizing Treasure Hunts, a process where GE works with onsite staff to apply technology and process improvement tools to identify, quantify and recommend enhancements to sources of energy waste – including electricity, natural gas, water, wastewater, compressed air and steam.
Under this project, EDF will help GE implement its Treasure Hunt process more widely across industries and sectors and select targeted sites for this initiative.
Over the next few months, EDF and GE will work on the identification of energy efficiency opportunities and suitable practices at select sites including facilities run by the cities of Atlanta and Orlando, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Merck and others. The process will require staffing resources but the facilities will not be charged anything for the opportunity.
Gwen Ruta, vice president of corporate partnerships at EDF, said: “Trillions of dollars in energy savings are up for grabs in the US. Working with GE, we’re making it possible for cities and towns, hospitals and universities and businesses of all sizes to ferret out the valuable energy treasure buried in their own backyards.”
