PaceController: Ideal for Nearly
Any Facility in Nearly Any Market

Retail
Retail companies spend more than $20 billion on energy each year to display merchandise, control climate and attract customers. But nearly 33 cents of each energy dollar spent on running a typical retail outlet is wasted.

Margins are tight, and businesses constantly look for ways to squeeze expenses so they can offer even lower prices to their customers. The PaceController delivers smarter energy usage—an easy, environmentally sound way to improve the bottom line. Best of all, PaceControllers provide full value without complicated energy management systems. And if you already have an EMS, they can provide significant added value!

Supermarkets and Convenience Stores
Supermarkets and convenience stores rely heavily on refrigeration and dehumidification. They must also operate competing equipment at the same time—all of which translates into very high energy bills. With the PaceController, heating, air conditioning and refrigeration equipment can all be made more efficient and provide substantial cost savings.

A 10% reduction in energy costs for the average supermarket chain boosts profit margins by 6% and earnings per share by nearly 7%. And in an industry where sales-per-square-foot is everything, reducing energy costs by 10% is equivalent to increasing sales-per-square-foot by nearly $42!

Government and Transit Facilities
Government agencies spend more than $10 billion a year on energy to provide public services and meet constituent needs. With ever-tightening budgets, administrators need to cut costs—but this doesn't mean they need to cut services. It's easy to find savings without cutting important programs: Nearly one-third of the energy used to run typical government buildings goes to waste!

Hotels and Assisted-Living Facilities
Hotels and assisted living facilities consume a tremendous amount of energy to meet guest needs around the clock. If such facilities improved their energy performance by an average of 30%, the annual electricity bill savings would be nearly $1.5 billion.

This represents a savings of approximately $365 per available room night per year for every hotel room in the country. A 10% reduction in energy costs is equivalent to increasing Average Daily Room rates by a $1.35 for full service hotels—which really adds up over the course of the year!

Office Buildings
Energy represents 30% of the typical office building's costs and is a property's single largest operating expense. Saving 20% of energy costs in a commercial office building is equivalent to increasing the net operating income by 4%, which would support a 4% increase in asset value and also leads to increased tenant satisfaction and retention.

Restaurants and Fast Food
Energy consumption in the food service sector is a major drain on profits. Restaurants have especially high HVACR costs because kitchen heat requires air conditioning and dehumidification even during the heating season. In an industry where profits are typically only 3–9% of total revenue, operating costs must be kept as low as possible. Saving 20% on energy can increase profit as much as 33%!

Schools and Universities
Colleges and universities spend approximately $2 billion each year on energy. In fact, America's primary and secondary schools spend more on energy—estimated at $6 billion annually—than on textbooks and computers combined. Smarter energy management can support educational missions and position a school as an environmental leader while saving money for repair, renovation, new faculty, new construction and other core activities.

The least efficient schools use three times more energy and spend 40 cents per square foot more than the best energy performers.

Hospitals
Health care organizations spend more than $6.5 billion on energy each year to meet patient needs. From patient room cooling to large-scale food service operations, health care organizations can greatly improve their bottom line with smart energy management.

Every dollar that a nonprofit health care organization saves on energy is equivalent to generating new revenues of $20 for hospitals or $10 for medical offices. For-profit hospitals, medical offices and nursing homes can boost earnings per share by a penny by reducing energy costs just 5%.

Warehouse and Cold Storage
Warehouse and cold storage buildings use more than 460 trillion BTU of total energy in the U.S. annually. With prices rising, energy conservation is a must for distribution centers. With an increased reliance on computers to manage operations—computers that suck up energy use—overall demand is increasing as well. A few warehouse modifications—like installing PaceControllers on heating, air conditioning and refrigeration units—can mean big savings.