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Kortrijk, Belgium — Sept. 16, 2014 — Elster EnergyICT has signed a three-year contract with Tesco, one of the world’s largest retailers, to implement a cost-saving energy-management solution across its large retail and distribution estate.
Committed to reducing its carbon intensity and tackling climate change, Tesco has selected Elster EnergyICT’s pioneering energy monitoring and management platform EnactoTM 9.3. The platform delivers real-time and actionable energy intelligence that unlocks hidden patterns in consumption, helping to improve business performance and ultimately save cost by reducing energy use.
Enacto is the company’s flagship energy-management platform, and the latest version, 9.3, brings new features and enhanced functionality to meet the evolving needs of multi-site organisations in the commercial, industrial, and retail sectors.
Enacto 9.3 is intelligent, user-friendly, and self-learning, and works with energy managers to reduce energy costs and increase savings by providing automated energy-reducing actions.
The cloud-based platform will form part of Tesco’s focus to reduce energy waste, as it provides multiple users with easy access to energy data from different devices. Enacto’s reporting capabilities will allow Tesco and its partners to present energy-data analytics at all levels of the organization.
“Tesco is an established leader on energy efficiency and carbon reduction in the retail sector and has committed to reducing CO2 emissions by 50 percent by 2020,” said James Pitcher, head of energy and environment for Tesco.
“We have also set the target of being a zero-carbon business by 2050 and are continually pushing ourselves to find innovative ways to make our stores as efficient as possible. Elster EnergyICT’s energy-management solutions will play an essential role in helping us achieve these goals by enabling our employees to visualize, manage, and identify opportunities for energy saving across our stores, and quantify any savings made.”
Effective energy management plays a big role at Tesco, which has stores and distribution centers across the United Kingdom, Europe and Asia. Elster EnergyICT’s solutions will work with the supermarket giant to support its innovative energy-efficiency programs and embed an energy-saving culture, ensuring that it continues to realize sustainable savings.
