Businesses are looking for ways to lower energy costs while meeting other critical imperatives, from improving their operational performance to meeting environmental regulations. New technologies can be key to achieving these goals – but only if the technologies deliver on their promise.

Global's Customized Consulting Services ensure that customers reap the benefits of installing and using new and emerging energy-saving technologies. Global delivers hands-on guidance to help companies identify technology and approaches that will save them money, improve productivity, and reduce their carbon footprint.

Throughout, Global's experts work collaboratively with clients to ensure that the results not only deliver benefits, but help them meet and exceed their energy reduction goals.

On-site assessment of promising technology applications can help utilities more effectively manage customer demand while engaging the customer and promoting efficient technology and practices. A turn-key provider, Global handles all aspects of your demonstration project from design to documentation.

Global's experienced staff has executed technology demonstration projects with all market segments from commercial and healthcare to industrial and agricultural. Partnering with utility clients, we help to identify key technologies and recruit customer hosts, setting the stage for successful projects and highly effective customer engagement. Our services include:

• Project design
• Host site identification
• Facilitate data collection activities
• Analysis of operational and energy use data
• Survey of facility operational staff
• Preparation of documents to summarize the results and disseminate them to other potential users

Thoughtful evaluation of energy technologies and their economic impact in various industry segments provides the insight and direction necessary for quality strategic planning and results-oriented energy program design.

Working with utilities, government agencies, research institutes and other large organizations, Global jointly conducts energy use optimization studies at key customer facilities, identifying energy savings opportunities and productivity gains for the customer and valuable data for the client to drive energy strategy and program results. Analyses deliverables can include:

• Energy use trends
• Energy costs
• Commonly used technologies
• Opportunities for new technologies
• Potential benefits resulting from the implementation of new technologies
• Barriers to implementation of new technologies

Staying abreast of emerging energy technologies is a difficult and time consuming task for both utility staff and customers alike. Yet this knowledge is key to reaping the cost, productivity and environmental benefits that application of these technologies can provide and avoid barriers to implementation.

Global provides customized, information-packed training programs and informational workshops to educate utility staff and key clients to improve energy efficiency program performance, promote green and sustainable practices and drive overall strategic objectives. Events can be hosted at the utility or held at a customer location. Examples of recent workshops include:

• Metal Working Fluids Workshop (WE Energies)
• Guide to Energy Efficiency in K-12 Schools (FirstEnergy)
• Simplified Guide to Energy Efficiency in Hospitals (FirstEnergy, Public Service New Mexico)
• Simplified Guide to Energy Efficiency in Large Commercial Buildings (FirstEnergy)
• Review of Food Processing Technologies (Public Service New Mexico)
• Technologies for Agri-Food and Water & Wastewater Facilities (Tri-State)
• Regional Water and Wastewater Technology Workshops (Southern Company)