My Carbon Footprint Is Too Large

Exergy Announces Contract to Engineer Chemical Plant Electrification and Decarbonization

THE PROBLEM

How do I reduce my carbon footprint?

There are four (4) ways to reduce your carbon footprint:

  1. Reduce your energy usage.
  2. Shift to lower carbon energy sources.
  3. Change the timing of carbon-intensive operations.
  4. Redesign your product or service to use less energy.

Reduce Your Energy Usage

Reduce your energy consumption without changing your operations by installing energy-efficiency upgrades.

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Shift to Lower Carbon Energy Sources

For most firms, this requires electrification of processes that employ fossil fuels, such as shifting from natural gas or fuel oil, to electricity. While conceptually simple, it’s difficult in practice for firms with significant heat loads, since the increase in the required electrical infrastructure may not be supportable by the grid or otherwise expensive upgrades or a substation.

To learn more about the carbon content of energy sources including the grid, please click here:

> https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/energy-and-the-environment/carbon-dioxide-emissions-from-electricity

> https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/greenhouse-gas-emissions-from-energy-data-explorer

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-cycle_greenhouse_gas_emissions_of_energy_sources.

Change the time of Carbon Intensive Processes

This strategy only applies to electric processes. The contribution of renewables to the grid varies throughout the day: Solar will dominate from mid-morning to late afternoon, and wind is typically most productive in the middle of the night. By shifting your carbon intensive processes to these times your effectively using less carbon intensive electricity even though it is from the grid.

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Redesign your Product or Service

Ninety percent (90%) of the energy required by your product or service is determined by its design. Go back to the beginning with a white sheet of paper and review your design, focusing on the energy content of the process and parts. Changing parts from cast metal to sheet can save energy. Consider 3D printing on investment casting, rather than milling and forging. Exergy Energy has a patent on how to optimize energy consumption in production.

There are more ways to reduce your carbon footprint, these are just the easiest and fastest to achieve results. If you would like to go deeper and explore ways to reduce your carbon footprint, please schedule time with one of our energy specialists.

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