With Effective Energy Use the Benefits just keep coming

Studies have consistently shown that people work most effectively within a relatively narrow range of lighting, temperature and humidity. Within this range people are the most comfortable, productive and safest. As you move outside these ranges the opposite occurs.

As discomfort increases, employees, besides becoming less productive, also take more sick time, report more accidents, and tend to look for more comfortable places to be employed. The First Energy Group may affect each of these issues:

• Accuracy
• Productivity
• Comfort
• Morale
• Sick days
  People are more effective, motivated, safe and happier when they are working within their "comfort" zone.
• Employee Retention
  Happier employees tend to stay longer (each day and # of years)
• Recruitment costs
  If employees don't leave as often you don't have to hire as often.
• Training/Mgt Costs
  Less new employees lowers training and management costs.
• Safety
  Both employee and building safety
• Retail and Inside Sales
  Keep customers longer, and make your wares appear more desirable
• Profits
  With all of these benefits your profits have to go up
• Cash Flow
  With all of these savings your cash flow improves. If you use our Shared Savings program your savings will pay for all upgrades - while you generate positive cash flow!
• Maintenance
• Longer equipment life
  Higher quality equipment that is more effectively run and maintained lasts longer, runs more reliably, and requires less support.

Beyond just improving what you've already got you can go further and create NEW benefits.

• How Much Does it cost you if you lose power? These costs can be staggering. And, if a power glitch extends to hours or days your entire business might be in jeopardy. By planning ahead you can avoid the pitfalls of power loss.
• Process Control - By using energy more effectively you may be able to increase production rates, minimize process crashes, lower operator costs, and provide better quality control.
• Building capacity - If your energy use is starting to hit the limits your building is capable of providing you may be faced with awful choices - move, stop growing, or spend a fortune to remedy. However, another choice exists. Use less energy.

In addition to the immediate business benefits gained by using energy more effectively there are societal benefits we gain as more of us "Do the right thing". Societal benefits include decreasing:

• Air Pollution
• Water pollution
• Global warming
• Trade deficits
• Need to construct more power plants
• Need to drill in our National Parks
• Need to raise billions of dollars of taxes to increase our energy distribution
• Need to support foreign regimes we'd rather not support
• With Effective Energy Use the Benefits just keep coming