Michael UngarCEO of the Industry 4.0 Club

Understanding Sustainability: Measuring Emissions and Power Usage

26 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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The video explains that companies aiming for sustainability must first establish a baseline by measuring current emissions and power consumption. This involves using large-scale power meters for overall facility usage and then drilling down to individual machines and conveyors with smaller meters. Once the baseline is known, companies can explore mitigation actions such as implementing product return programs and shifting to greener electricity sources, thereby reducing reliance on dirty grid power.

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As companies want to become more sustainable, they first have to have a baseline. Baseline is, you know, what are your emissions? What are you doing currently? What is your power usage? And you can do that with some big power meters, and then you can take a step down and figure out what's going on with this machine, that machine, this conveyor, that conveyor. Then what are the things that you can do to augment? Are you bringing products back? Are you shedding off into areas where maybe you're still pulling power from the grid, but maybe it's green power instead of— dirty power or whatever it is. You know, there's, there's lots of different, lots of different things there.