Industry-tuned.
Not a generic platform.
Each sector has its own baseline models, carrier weights, and ECM priorities — tuned against 30 years of completed audits in that industry. A generic energy platform misses what's specific about a kiln, a crusher, a dryer, a refrigeration loop.
Wood Products
Kiln drying dominates the thermal profile; compressed air and VFDs drive most of the electrical opportunity. Quebec's wood-products sector is heavily electrified via Hydro-Québec, which makes the SEA funding envelope especially generous here.
- VFDs on kiln fans + circulation (affinity-law savings on variable-load drives)
- Heat recovery on kiln exhausts + press cooling loops
- Compressed air leak program + demand-side controls
- Chip blower + planer motor right-sizing
- LED retrofits on green-chain + planer deck lighting
Mining
Electricity dominates — typically 75–80% of total energy. Ventilation, crushers, mills, and compressors form the energy core. Mining audits see the highest $ ECM opportunities of any sector because of sheer load scale.
- VFDs on ventilation fans (single biggest ECM class in mining)
- Crusher motor right-sizing + soft-starts
- Mill drive controls (SAG/ball mill optimization)
- Compressed air demand control + leak program
- Hoist regenerative braking (underground)
Foundry
Thermal-dominant. Melt furnaces, holding furnaces, and ladle heaters drive most of the spend. Combustion efficiency, refractory thermal losses, and induction coil cooling are the deepest ECM pockets.
- Induction furnace cooling-water heat recovery
- Combustion tuning on ladle + holding heaters
- Hot-face refractory insulation upgrades
- Oxygen trim + O₂ analyzer on gas-fired furnaces
- Sand-plant compressed air + dust collection VFDs
Pulp & paper
Steam systems + refiner motor loads dominate. The largest individual ECM dollar opportunities in our library sit in this sector — heat recovery from dryer hoods and steam-trap programs routinely return multi-million-dollar annualized savings on large mills.
- Steam trap survey + replacement program (20–30% of traps fail in any given mill)
- Dryer hood heat recovery (preheating combustion air or process water)
- Refiner plate optimization + motor loading controls
- Vacuum system VFDs on paper machines
- Condensate return + flash steam recovery
Agri-food
Refrigeration is the biggest electrical load in most agri-food facilities — and also the biggest ECM opportunity. CIP (Clean-in-place) thermal cycles, process steam, and compressed air for packaging round out the carrier mix. Strong Hydro-Québec program fit on the electrical side.
- Refrigeration system controls + compressor VFDs (single largest ECM)
- Heat recovery from refrigeration compressor discharge (free hot water)
- CIP heat recovery + tank insulation
- Boiler economizers + combustion tuning
- Packaging-line compressed air demand reduction
One platform. Five industry profiles.
The Audit Engine and EMIS don't care which sector you're in — the ECM library, baseline math, and cost models are the same. What changes per industry: default load factors, operating-hour priors, carrier mix assumptions, and which ECMs rank first.
Baseline priors
A sawmill kiln fan has different expected load factor than a foundry induction furnace. Our priors are tuned per sector so the Audit Engine needs less field data to converge.
ECM priorities
The order ECMs are matched against an asset list depends on industry. VFDs dominate mining; heat recovery dominates pulp & paper. No generic rankings.
Carrier weights
Agri-food is refrigeration-heavy; mining is electrical-dominant. Cost estimation + HQ eligibility calcs factor this in automatically.
Chemicals. Cement. Aluminum.
Tell us what you run.
Five sectors is where we've codified the deepest prior knowledge. We take audits outside these five regularly — the engine still works; we just apply more field data to converge.