Featured assessment
$600,000
Identified annual energy savings at one facility
A whole-plant assessment — not a lighting-only punch list. Waste was located, ranked, and turned into a roadmap operations and finance could act on.
Facility results
Real facilities. Measured waste. Named plants.
Open the engineering reports. Filter named facilities by lighting, compressed air, HVAC, or whole-plant work. Then request the same 30-minute review for your building.
Measured proof
Read the engineering, not a brochure
Two Facility Performance Reports you can open. Named plants you can scan. Identified opportunity is labeled as identified — not as closed savings.
$6,128,198
First-year client savings
52,909,923
kWh reduced
$2,245,575
Utility incentives secured
40,288
Metric tons of CO2 reduced
Report 004 · Steam
Boilers
Why the steam system is costing more than it should
Oversized boilers, failed steam traps, poor condensate return, weak controls, and water losses raise operating cost quietly.
Named facilities
Client work since 2008
Filter by the system that matches your plant. Cards with a number are the strongest proof. The rest are named facilities EDE has served — not invented savings.
Lapeer, Michigan
Loc Performance
64% ROI · three-day lighting retrofit
A precision lighting retrofit cut energy use and returned 64% ROI, completed in three days without a long production outage.
What EDE did
Loc Performance needed a fast lighting upgrade in a high-precision manufacturing environment. EDE designed and installed the retrofit on a three-day window so production could keep moving.
Parma, Michigan
MACI
800,000 ft² of 1,019,000 converted to LED + NLC
MACI needed higher light levels and less energy waste. The first phase put LED fixtures and networked lighting controls on 800,000 of 1,019,000 square feet.
What EDE did
Networked controls let a plant of this size dim, occupancy-sense, and verify lighting energy instead of running every high-bay at full output for the whole shift.
Michigan plant
Manufacturer · boiler optimization
$180,000 Annual savings from sizing, traps, and steam repairs
Proper boiler sizing and steam-trap repairs uncovered major energy and water savings — waste that had been sitting in the steam system, not on the lighting plan.
What EDE did
The boiler Facility Performance Report on this page shows the same pattern: failed traps, poor condensate return, oversize equipment, and water losses.
Homer, Michigan
Brembo Brakes
EDE helped Brembo North America reduce operating cost, improve the work environment, and support an annual sustainability goal.
What EDE did
Brembo is also part of EDE’s compressed-air program with other Michigan manufacturers. That work targets leaks, demand, and reliability without stopping production.
Jackson, Michigan
Worthington Industries
1.41 yr Simple payback · 85%+ lighting energy reduction
Networked lighting controls at the Jackson plant cut lighting energy more than 85%, doubled footcandles, and paid back in 1.41 years.
What EDE did
Average light level went from 15 to 30 footcandles. Occupancy zones stopped lighting empty floor. Utility incentives covered 50% of project cost, including an additional $157,418 tied to the savings.
Multiple Midwest sites
Meijer
EDE partnered with Meijer across Midwest locations to cut annual operating cost and upgrade infrastructure against long-term carbon goals.
What EDE did
Multi-site work favors measures that repeat cleanly: lighting, HVAC, and controls that a facilities team can run the same way from building to building.
Auburn Hills, Michigan
AirBoss
$1,500 Net positive cash flow per month on a 5-year lease
AirBoss wanted lower operating cost, better light levels, and no out-of-pocket capital. State and utility funding covered the project.
What EDE did
After the 5-year lease, AirBoss owns a system expected to last more than 25 years. From that point, more than $6,000 a month in energy savings goes to the bottom line.
Jackson, Michigan
Camshaft Machine
40% + 40% LED cut, then NLC cut lighting energy again
The 2021 lighting project hit all three goals: less waste, less carbon, lower operating cost. Consumers Energy added $28,000 because of networked controls.
What EDE did
Offices, plant, and exterior lighting moved from fluorescent to smart LED. Networked controls added a second 40% reduction on top of the LED cut.
Kalamazoo Township, Michigan
Borroughs
89% Lighting energy saved with LED + networked controls
Lighting use fell from 760,320 kWh to 83,325 kWh a year. LED alone saved 58%. Controls took the total to 89%.
What EDE did
Utility incentive covered 44% of cost. Lighting’s share of the energy bill dropped from 26% to 4%. Fixture count fell 19%.
Holland, Michigan
BuhlerPrince
19% → 3% Lighting share of the monthly energy bill
Two objectives: reduce energy waste and reduce carbon. Networked lighting cut lighting from 19% of the bill to 3% and removed more than 281 metric tons of CO₂ a year.
What EDE did
Fixture count fell 17%. The lighting solution is designed for more than 25 years with virtually no maintenance, and the plant controls levels and behavior.
Romulus, Michigan
Lincoln Park Boring Co.
80% / 10% Occupied power vs. vacant dim — then off
LPB wanted a 20-year lighting system, higher light levels, and maximum efficiency. Occupancy zones run at 80%, then dim to 10%, then off.
What EDE did
LPB had another manufacturer in mind. After research, they chose EDE. The plant is zoned by process so empty floor does not stay at full power.
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Paragon D&E
1.04 yr Simple payback · 90% lighting energy cut
Paragon moved from 1,250 fluorescent fixtures to 475 high-efficiency units, above 100 footcandles, with a 1.04-year payback.
What EDE did
Fixture count fell more than 60%. Lighting energy fell 90%. Consumers Energy covered 49% of project cost. CO₂ dropped 1,474 metric tons a year.
Multiple Midwest sites
Motor City Stamping
$18,000 Monthly lighting cost reduction vs. legacy
NLC and intelligent LED removed 1,504 metric tons of CO₂ a year and cut monthly energy cost more than $18,000 versus legacy lighting.
What EDE did
A compressed-air leak audit identified 1,389,991 kWh / $138,999 in savings. DTE covered 100% of the leak-audit cost.
No named facilities in this category. Open the boiler and steam report for HVAC work, or request a review for your plant.
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