Equipment such as chicken warmer, the wrapper machine, Kitchen hoods, night blinds, and dozens of other pieces of equipment leach almost 15-20% of total grocery store energy costs. If left ON when not in use, it can cost you millions. Singh360’s mobile application helps reduce plug load and wasted electricity. 

As Facility and Energy Managers responsible for cost effective operations, you must pay close attention to these out-of-site, easy to ignore drain on your electricity consumption.

Commercial buildings are responsible for 41 percent of U.S. primary energy use. Since 1995, plug load energy consumption has increased about 235 percent. Plug loads are a major contributor to building energy consumption.

With a current retro-commissioning job in the Chicagoland area, our customer urged us to get in touch with ComEd and get registered in their Energy Efficiency program.  They wanted us to include any incentives they offered into our deliverable.

The ComEd Energy Efficiency Program offers incentives to all types of business customers. The utility company supports those efforts by initially funding the energy study, so there is no up-front investment by the grocer or commercial building owner.

Medina, MN (September 18, 2017): Sprouts Farmers Markets, a grocery chain of more than 275 stores known for healthful and organic foods, cut its energy use in nine older stores by 15 percent in four months.

With the help of software and services from Singh360, a Minnesota-based energy management company, Sprouts exceeded their project goal by 100 percent.

Sprouts is committed to promoting healthy living and environmental sustainability, with all new stores are built to LEED Silver specifications and older stores upgraded continuously. The stores average about 28,000 to 30,000 square feet each.

Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. is a healthy grocery store offering fresh, natural and organic foods at great prices. Sprouts offers a complete shopping experience that includes fresh produce, meat and seafood, bulk foods, vitamins and supplements, packaged groceries, deli, baked goods, dairy products, frozen foods, natural body care and household items catering to consumers’ growing interest in health and wellness.

Medina, MN (April 3, 2017): Macalester College of St. Paul, Minn., has implemented software from kWh360 to help reduce costs, cut consumption and improve environmental sustainability.

Medina, MN (August 15, 2016): Singh360, a Minnesota-based provider of technologies and services to reduce energy consumption, has announced a commercial partnership with Evolutiva Engenharia e Consultoria, an engineering firm based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Evolutiva plans to introduce Singh360’s systematic energy efficiency processes and technologies. We will also remarket the 360-Cloud software.”

“We’re impressed by the savings North American users of the 360-Cloud software have achieved for their multi-site operations,” Flavio said. “We are especially impressed by how easy the software is to learn and use.”

SINGH360 helps Strack & Van Til and Coborn’s trim energy consumption. “In the last four months we’ve seen savings of 8% to 12% on average,” says Don Erminger, director of energy and maintenance.

Two prominent grocery chains in the Upper Midwest are reducing their energy use and cutting energy cost by retro-commissioning their stores. The chains have done so with the help of SINGH360, a service provider that specializes in working with grocery chains.

The retro-commissioning process identifies opportunities to improve energy efficiency for stores that have been in operation for several years. The process is valuable because such stores tend to become less energy efficient with time, says Abtar Singh, president of SINGH360.

Maple Grove, MN (March 4, 2013) – Supermarket operators can achieve 25% gains in energy efficiency by using hybrid condensers for their in-store refrigeration systems.

Supermarket operators can achieve 25% gains in energy efficiency by using hybrid condensers for their in-store refrigeration systems. The relatively new hybrid systems present a cost-effective alternative to older air-cooled or water-cooled technologies, according to Abtar Singh, Chief Executive Officer of Singh360, a firm that provides energy-related consulting services to grocery supermarkets.

Singh announced that his company has agreed to represent the TrilliumSeriesTM hybrid technology from Baltimore Air Coil (or BAC).