Quick PEP Software Helps Jump-Start Energy Savings
From the Summer 2006 issue of Energy Matters
Quick PEP software helps you begin to identify energy-saving opportunities.
Quick PEP is a software assessment tool you can use to boost your plant's energy efficiency and your bottom line. The Quick Plant Energy Profiler, or Quick PEP, tool can help you understand how your plant uses energy and what you can do to reduce both energy usage and costs.
Developed under the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Industrial Technologies Program (ITP) and available online, Quick PEP helps you identify opportunities for savings that will also improve your company's productivity and environmental performance. Using Quick PEP, you can quickly diagnose your plant's energy use and identify prime areas for savings.
Customized Report Points to Savings
Quick PEP provides an overview of the amount of energy you purchase and generate. It helps you identify major energy-consuming industrial systems, describes your plant's savings potential, and points out more specific resources and tools you can use to realize savings. With some basic information in hand about your plant, you can complete a plant profile in about an hour.
The result is a customized, printable report, including tables and graphs that show how much energy your plant is purchasing and how much it costs, how your plant is consuming energy, and how much energy and money you could save. The report also suggests some particular next steps to take to begin implementing energy-saving measures.
These next steps might include using more targeted system assessment software tools to identify specific savings opportunities or enlisting help from one of DOE's Qualified Specialists in analyzing industrial systems. You might also want to sign up for a training session to learn more about the use of these software tools as part of your approach to energy management.
Online Tutorial Provides Guidance
The Quick PEP online tutorial explains the information you'll need for your plant profile. It lists the major sections of the Quick PEP tool and a short description. And there are links to more detailed information about each section of Quick PEP and how to use it.
*Before presenting your results, Quick PEP requests information about the energy efficiency of your major plant systems. You can determine this yourself or fill out an optional "score card" to obtain efficiency information for selected systems.
Quick PEP is available online in a beta version free of charge. To access it, visit the ITP BestPractices Web site and click on "Software Tools" in the list of quick links. And after you use Quick PEP, please send us your feedback and suggestions; contact the EERE Information Center online, or call the center at 1-877-337-3463.
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