New energy efficiency contract for the competitiveness of industry
EDF Fenice, expert in energy and environmental efficiency solutions of the EDF Group, and AVTOVAZ, first Russian car manufacturer, signed a series of agreements within the framework of a global energy efficiency project for the setting-up of power factor correctors on more than 1200 electric motors operating in Togliatti site (Russia).
This initiative led to a significant decrease in the energy losses allowing AVTOVAZ to save more than 15 GWh/year of active energy through the resulting 7% decrease in the energy consumptions of the electric motors.
Initiated in 2009, the global optimisation plan of AVTOVAZ energy consumption has been developed through a series of targeted interventions dedicated to different facilities of the site: compressed air production system, lighting system and currently the reactive energy factor of the
internal distribution grid.
To date all these energy efficiency interventions led by EDF Fenice allow the Russian car manufacturer to save about 117GWh/year thus decreasing the production costs, so as to develop its own competitiveness on national and international markets and to reduce the CO2 emissions by 40.000 tons.
The energy performance completed thanks to the EDF Fenice-AVTOVAZ collaboration clearly shows it is possible to combine profitability and sustainable development, in the service of a
modern, ‘’clean’’ and efficient industry.
