Winner: Crowley Carbon Ltd

(Danú – Intelligent Energy)

Company Information
Crowley Carbon is an energy services company installing energy saving products in client companies from a  licensed range of over 100 products addressing  energy use in all areas of business. The company bond expected savings to guarantee return on investment for its clients.

Project Description
Danú is an expert system that allows an engineer with basic training to conduct an energy audit of any business and deliver a comprehensive set of recommendations, prices, specifications and return on investment calculations. The demand side reduction solution can then be implemented.

The key benefits of the Danú system are:

·     It allows faster audits at significantly lower cost by providing enabling technology through an iPhone/iPad application and a web interface, providing an energy blue-print of a facility, showing exactly what energy is being used where.

·     It allows contractors, together with their customers, to quickly find and specify best-of-breed solutions for each aspect of their project, thereby saving time and avoiding the cost of wrong solution choices.

·     It provides suppliers of energy efficiency solutions with real time market feedback on the demand and adoption patterns for their solutions.

·     Audited sites are constantly re-evaluated as new technologies come on stream to ensure that the most cost-effective efficiency solutions are presented to the user.

Application of the technology to identify a range of replacement products for Corrib Oil Ltd. has already saved the company almost 30% in energy costs.

Judges Description
An  innovative solution to the problems of reducing the cost of energy audits  and identifying alternative equipment which is more energy efficient.   The analytical tool is backed up by a comprehensive, constantly  updated database of equipment which will enable informed decisions to be  made. The iPhone capability makes the technology readily useable and  transferable to all sites, regardless of size. This, together with the  business model adopted, gives enormous potential for energy savings  throughout the business sector.