Case Studies

DPD group is 2nd largest parcel delivery networkin Europe that delivers more than 5.3 million parcels every day, worldwide. DPD Latvija is a branch with more than 18mln EUR annual turnover and over 190 employeeslocated in Riga. The companyis well known for its fast and cost-efficient delivery services. DPD Latvija management team wanted to understand what additional efforts can they take to furtherimprove company’s efficiency. After a detailed analysis of the costs it wasclear that the monthly electricity consumption is quite high, while the reasonsfor that were not entirely evident.

The Road Traffic Safety Directorate is a state joint stock company with 26 branches, 50mln EUR annual turnover and over 600 employees located throughout Latvia, including remote locations. As one of the most forward-thinking state-owned companies, it wanted to be efficient in their business activities and in their energy consumption. With 26 remote branches, measuring and auditing energy consumption in all of them is a challenging task.

ACCENTURE is a multinational professional services company that is serving clients in more than 200 cities in 120 countries. ACCENTURE LATVIA is a branch with 79mln EUR annual turnover and over 1600 employees located in 3 offices in Riga. ACCENTURE LATVIA is well known for its high value-added services and services that include application of new technologies. In this Accenture is leading by example by being innovative and efficient across all areas. The company has 3 different offices located in 3 different buildings. Two of three are newly built and equipped with advanced BMS systems that provide monitoring and modification capabilities for internal energy consumption. The third building is a historic monument, which for conservation purposes, has not undergone major modernization of the ventilation system. When ACCENTURE compared electricity consumption of their offices, the electrical consumption in the historic building turned out to be significantly higher, but it was not clear why.

With an annual turnover of 116mln EUR and over 1000 employees Orkla Latvija is one of the leading confectionery & snack companies in the Baltics comprising legal entities that once operated individually. Today the Latvian group of companies is an integral part of the Norwegian Orkla conglomerate sharing various production stages between the factories in the region. In order to manage operating expenses correctly, the management of the company needed to calculate the cost price of various products at specific production phase. Production managers at Orkla were aware of many different technological devices used in different food production stages, and in order to accurately calculate the cost of product at these production stages they had to know how much power each individual device consumes.

With an annual turnover of 5mln EUR and over 80 employees Transparence is the largest glass processing manufacturer in Latvia, which has been operating since 2003, exporting the majority of its products. The technology offered by the company for the processing of glass allows to execute full spectrum of orders - Transparence manufactures insulating glass, gaskets, performs water-jet cutting, as well as processing of all types of glass, offering decorative, tinted, heat-insulating, solar-refractory, fireproof, laminated and other types of glazing. To offer such a wide range of glass products, the company needs variety of technological equipment that consumes a significant amount of energy. As electricity bills kept rising, Transparence wanted to understand whether there was a way to operate more efficiently and save money by reducing electricity consum