Case study 案例
Operations Manager Luke Rhodes was sitting in his office at Tridon Australia, a manufacturer and distributor of automotive parts, when he got an unusual email.
It was from the utility company asking if something was wrong at their Sydney factory – the energy bill in one building had dropped a staggering 65% in four weeks.
運營經理盧克•羅（luó）德斯（Luke Rhodes）坐在澳大利亞特裏（lǐ）頓（Tridon Australia）的辦公（gōng）室裏，他是一家汽車零部件製（zhì）造商和分銷商，突（tū）然收到一（yī）封不同尋常的電子郵件。這是一家公用事業公司打來的電話，詢問他（tā）們在悉尼的工廠是否出了問題：
“一棟（dòng）大樓的能源賬單在四周內（nèi）下降了65%，令人震驚。”
Instead of being worried, Rhodes and his colleagues were amused. “It was pretty funny,” he recalls. They were also pleased that their strategy to make their large industrial site more energy efficient had paid off.
羅德斯和他的同事們沒（méi）有擔心，反而覺（jiào）得很（hěn）有趣。“這很有趣，”他回憶道。他們還高興（xìng）地看到，他們提高大型（xíng）工業場地能（néng）效的（de）戰略取得了成效。
Over the past year, Tridon Australia had been implementing a range of energy savings measures including LED lighting and solar panels. The massive drop in energy, however, was largely attributed to their new compressed air system, which the NSW government partially paid for.
Tridon is one of around 90 sites across NSW —nearly half of them in the regions— which have taken advantage of government funding which helps businesses be more energy efficient. Manufacturers have upgraded their boilers and refrigeration systems, installed new meters and looked into improving their processes.
Tridon是新（xīn）南威爾士州（zhōu）約90個站點之（zhī）一，其中（zhōng）近（jìn）一半位於該地（dì）區，這些站點利用了政府的資金，幫助企業提高能效。製造商已經升（shēng）級了他們的鍋爐和製冷係（xì）統，安（ān）裝了新的儀表，並考慮改進他們的工藝。
For Tridon, their old compressed air system was the problem. Rhodes says it was pumping around 55 to 60 kilowatts while the rest of the facilities —air conditioning, heating, everything included— were around 18 to 20 kilowatts.
對特裏頓來說，他們的舊壓縮空氣係統就是問題所在。羅茲說，它的抽水量約為55至60千瓦，而其他設施——空調、暖（nuǎn）氣，包（bāo）括所有設（shè）施——的抽水量約為18至20千瓦。
He says getting the government funding was easy and “serendipitous” as it happened just as they were assessing their compressed air system. The NSW government contributed $10,000 towards the project and Tridon pitched in $32,000. With the money they will save from their electricity bill dropping, Rhodes says they will break even in two years.
“I back the program 100% just for the sheer volume of money and energy you can save. It’s a no-brainer, really. I didn't anticipate that we’d get this much energy savings, so it's been fantastic.”
他說，獲得政府資助很容易，而（ér）且是“偶然的”，因為就（jiù）在他們評（píng）估壓縮空氣係統的時候。新南威爾士州政府為該項目（mù）捐助了（le）10000美元，特裏頓投入了32000美元。羅德（dé）斯說，隨著他（tā）們從電（diàn）費中節省的錢減少，他們將在兩年內實現收支（zhī）平衡。
“我百分之百地支持這個計劃（huá），僅僅是為了（le）節省大量的（de）資金和能源。真的很簡（jiǎn）單。我沒想（xiǎng）到樱花草视频在线观看高清免费6能節（jiē）省這麽多能源，所以這太棒了。