Unlock major cost savings by reducing energy use in your operations. Our high-performance operations consultancy unlocks immediate energy savings and long-term resilience.
Power down costs, power up performance
Energy is one of the largest operational costs for manufacturers — and one of the biggest levers for improving performance. At Chartwell, we work with manufacturers to uncover and implement high-impact energy-saving opportunities — driving cost reduction, sustainability, and long-term resilience without capital expenditure.
Whether you’re responding to rising prices, tightening carbon targets, or internal net zero goals, your path to energy efficiency starts here.
Start with an Energy Scan
The quickest way to uncover savings is to see where you’re consuming the most amount of energy.
Chartwell’s Energy Scan is a rapid, data-led diagnostic that pinpoints energy hotspots and uncovers your realistic savings potential in just a few days. It goes beyond surface-level audits — delivering an actionable plan that can be implemented immediately alongside Chartwell experts.
Book your Energy Scan to discover your hidden potential.
Want a deeper dive into energy reduction?
Explore Chartwell’s resources designed to help manufacturing leaders reduce energy in their operations.
Manufacturing Leaders’ Guide to Energy Reduction
Download Chartwell’s practical playbook for identifying and capturing energy efficiency in complex operations.
Sustainable Manufacturing: Tackling the Big Three
Download our guide to overcome the three biggest challenges in sustainable manufacturing.
How Technology Can Drive Energy Efficiency in Manufacturing
Read how manufacturers are using data to drive down energy use—but only when backed by robust execution and capability-building.
The 5 Trends in Sustainable Manufacturing
Explore Chartwell’s perspective of the 5 trends in sustainable manufacturing to see what forward-looking leaders are doing now.
Blending insight and instinct
To deliver rapid, remarkable, and long-lasting energy savings, we combine a proven process with our time-served expertise and embedded team of engineers, scientists and specialists. Alongside technically and tactically identifying opportunities, our project management experience allows us to make fundamental changes to your organization in a matter of weeks to deliver on your energy reduction goals.
2 weeks
We quickly assess the scale of opportunity in your business – working closely with your team to understand the existing barriers and limits to energy reduction.
2-3 months
As part of a pilot project, we will demonstrate just how much potential exists. We deeply embed ourselves into your workforce, forming a small team with a cross-section of your organization.
2-9 months
Using our results-focused methodology, we redefine possible to deliver remarkable results that impact the bottom line. Often seen in a matter of weeks, these tangible and far-reaching improvements will be based on your unique needs, and our team will support the wider organization through the change process.
Beyond Chartwell
By achieving sustainable results and implementing impactful solutions, our interventions are designed to remain effective long after the project or deployment is complete. But much of this depends on your team, and their ability to contribute to lasting improvement. As a result, we have developed a series of tailored workshops, toolkits and methodologies, which help you learn our approach, overcome constraints, and deliver improvements without us being on site.
FAQs
Explore frequently asked questions for Chartwell’s energy reduction solution.
Reduce energy usage with Chartwell
An energy reduction project at Chartwell aims to significantly reduce energy usage in your manufacturing operations. Chartwell looks across your operations and determines the largest energy users in your operations to deliver rapid, measurable energy reduction without relying on major capital investment.
Yes. The Chartwell Energy Reduction solution specifically supports carbon‑related targets by reducing energy consumption, improving efficiency, and enabling long‑term resilience.
Yes. Chartwell’s energy reduction work focuses on uncovering and implementing high‑impact opportunities without requiring CapEx, improving performance through operational excellence, not equipment purchases.
Yes. Chartwell’s methodology is designed to reduce energy regardless of sector or site, tailoring the work to your process realities whether they are continuous, batch, discrete, or hybrid operations.
Immediate opportunities are typically identified within days of the Energy Scan, with rapid implementation possible during the pilot phase, often delivering tangible savings within weeks.
The work is designed to remain effective beyond deployment by establishing practical performance routines, visibility tools, and coaching so the team can hold the reductions and keep making energy reduction improvements. Chartwell also offers workshops and toolkits to build capability.
How does a Chartwell Energy Scan work?
The Energy Scan is a rapid, data‑led diagnostic that identifies energy hotspots and quantifies realistic savings potential in just a few days. It goes deeper than traditional audits and produces an immediately actionable plan. More information regarding what goes into a Chartwell Energy Scan can be found in our Manufacturing Leaders’ Guide to Energy Reduction.
Opportunities often include reducing unnecessary load, improving control settings, stabilizing processes, eliminating energy‑intensive losses, and optimizing equipment usage based on real consumption hotspots identified during the Energy Scan.
Unlike surface‑level audits, Chartwell’s Energy Scan is data‑driven, rapid, and focused on identifying high‑impact levers that can be acted on immediately to deliver verified reductions.
What a Chartwell energy reduction project looks like
Chartwell’s delivery is typically phased: a few days to a ~2 weeks to assess as part of the Chartwell Energy Scan, 2–3 months to demonstrate results via a pilot, and 2–9 months to redefine performance at scale depending on your scope and needs.
Chartwell rapidly assesses the scale of opportunity by working closely with your team to identify the barriers and limits to performance as part of the Chartwell Energy Scan, so you get a clear view of the constraint, the losses, why opportunity exists and the fastest path to results.
Chartwell demonstrates what’s possible by embedding into the workforce and forming a small cross-functional rapid results team (RRT). The RRT prove the gains in live operations so the wider rollout is grounded in real results, not theory.
Using a results‑focused methodology, Chartwell delivers tangible improvements, often seen in weeks, and supports the wider organization through the change process.
The intent is the opposite: reduce energy consumption while production continues. The team works in the reality of day-to-day operations, implementing changes in a controlled way so energy reductions are delivered without unnecessary disruption. This is vital as we are often supporting our clients with the their most urgent challenges, and therefore need to manage continued customer delivery as well as significant change.
A committed cross-functional core team and access to operational data and daily realities. Sustainable improvement depends on your team’s ability to adopt routines and drive the changes forward. Chartwell builds that capability as part of our improvement projects.