In 2009, Repsol launched the Edison Plan to improve the energy efficiency of its 3,600 service stations. In 2012, it built the first service station built according to environmentally sustainable principles, demonstrating its focus on corporate social responsibility, energy saving and the environment.
Energy efficiency and the reduction of CO2 emissions is one of the seven points of the brand’s development strategy for 2012-2016.
In 2014, Quantum offered Repsol a pilot project, to be carried out in Italy with the aim of extension to the corporate level, which would give concrete form and optimise the innovative processes already underway with the Edison plan, enabling a drastic improvement in the operating, maintenance and supervision costs of Repsol service stations, while also networking their lighting system and opening up the opportunity to test new promotion and marketing campaigns thanks to the dynamic implementation of lighting scenarios.
Quantum’s proposed QLight™ energy efficiency solution integrates aspects of consumption optimisation, management and monitoring of both the lighting system and the service station’s electrical utilities (fuel dispensers, car wash, etc.) into a single technology platform.
Since December 2014, the first plant with Quantum’s ‘Petrol Internet of Things’ software application has been in operation in the province of Vicenza, and the results obtained are extraordinary: the planned efficiency targets have been exceeded by the consumption reports recorded daily in the first months of operation, achieving a 78% reduction in energy consumption compared to the previous situation.
Constant monitoring of consumption and plant performance will allow Repsol to gather important information useful for better planning of promotional initiatives and its own commercial offer.