Blower Test Standards

Blowers are widely used by industrial customers for various industrial processes. According to the Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s 2006 study, blower (and fan) consumes approximately 1,300 gigawatt hours (GWh) per year in SCE’s service area alone. This is fourth largest electric energy consumption components among industrial customers, and yet ―unlike pump, lighting, or compressed air system― we still do not have an industry recognized efficiency testing standard or technical resources for promoting best practices. DES, therefore, has worked with other utilities through Consortium of Energy Efficiency to encourage an energy efficient performance testing standard for blowers . When the blower energy efficiency testing standard becomes available, design engineers, customers, and utilities with energy efficiency programs will be able to require the energy efficiency specification into their designs and operations.