Highway Meats

Torrensville

With a combined 50 years of experience in the meat and hospitality industries, Highway Meat was launched in  1998 to provide specialised value-added fresh meat and poultry products to local and regional restaurants, cafes, clubs and hotels. The company moved to their new Torrensville premises – a modern state-of-the-art factory to provide more efficient service.

Once concluding an engineering energy audit the following elements met ROI hurdles and were deployed: 37.5kVAr power factor correction unit, full LED lighting upgrade, air-con and refrigeration optimisation, 44kW SunPower solar system and bill re-engineering.

Starting annual power bill

$64,342

New annual power bill

$42,771

Annual Savings^*

$21,571

Annual Savings^*

33%

Payback years^*

3.2

ROI^*

31%

KEY POINTS

  • Energy costs were rising rapidly
  • After installing first lot of solar did not think could save more
  • Surprised with holistic approach knocking out another third

* Estimate