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31 Jul 2014
Energy efficiency certificates results after 12,000 m2 audited by keelwit technology
KeelWit Technology has made its own statistics about the results obtained after auditing the energy efficiency of 12,000 m2 of homes and office buildings since Energy Efficiency Certificates became compulsory in Spain in June 2013 for any property sale or rental. The vast majority of buildings audited (87.8% as shown in attached pie chart) obtains an “E” level in a scale from “A” (representing an optimal energy efficiency) to “G” (meaning a building where a great part of the energy used for heating and cooling is wasted due to inappropriate building materials or old HVAC equipment). Only 7.8% of the audited buildings get a poor result such as “F” or “G”. When this same analysis is performed with nationwide results obtained by all auditors, results are much worse, showing 35% of the buildings obtained “F” and “G” levels, as seen in the attached pie chart. The main reason for this difference is that the biggest part of KeelWit’s audits has been performed in high standard private homes and office buildings of recent construction, belonging to Promora, a real estate agency specialized in the sale and rent of luxury homes, chalets, townhouses, office buildings and mansions in the capital city’s most coveted neighborhoods. When both charts are compared we can easily understand the need to carefully choose the house to rent or buy as well as the need to gradually improve the energy efficiency of existing buildings, especially due to their age when looking at the nationwide average. There is a need to increase public knowledge of the relevance of energy efficiency results. In order to do so, regional governments...15 Jun 2014
KeelWit Technology starts an energy efficiency improvement project in Lilly’s plant in Alcobendas, Madrid
Lilly is one of the 10 leading pharma companies in the world, a global corporation with a strong commitment with R&D. Lilly’s plant in Alcobendas is one of the main plants worldwide the company has. Lilly has an Environment Sustainability Department that leads the environmental management system of the company. Their effort is to reduce the impact on the environment of their activity and to allow a sustainable growth. This leads the company to set ambitious targets in water and electric power consumption reductions and to constantly reduce emissions. As a result of their commitment with energy saving, Lilly shall apply an energy efficiency project to reduce the energy consumption of the cooling system installed in the plant, and has asked KeelWit Technology to develop a project to do so. KeelWit shall apply Keemo ® methodology, introducing optimization algorithms to the activation and control of the system involved, significantly reducing the linked power consumption, without relevant...2 Jun 2014
KeelWit Technology works for foster wheeler energia in a project to improve the performance of a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG)
Foster Wheeler is a leading international engineering, construction and project management contractor and power equipment supplier. It’s Global Engineering and Construction (E&C) Group designs, engineers and constructs leading-edge processing facilities and related infrastructure for the offshore and onshore upstream oil & gas, LNG & gas monetization, refining, environmental and power industries. Foster Wheeler Energia, S.L.U., is a division responsible for the design and engineering of heat recovery systems for the group worldwide. Its HQ is located in Madrid. KeelWit Technology is working closely with FWE, since the month of May, around CFD simulations oriented to improve the performance of heat recovery systems in combined cycle plants built by the company in different locations around the world. Some of these plants generate hundreds of MW and are considered state of the art facilities in this industry...22 May 2014