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MSU IAC students will recommend facilities, and as the MSU IAC is traveling to an assessment
location, observations of potential clients sited along the way are noted.
Responding to invitations from outreach activity opportunities to present information
about the IAC program are increasingly valuable sources for locating new clients. As energy
rates have escalated in recent years, industrial representatives attending outreach activities have
become more receptive and interested in MSU IAC assessments. Often in attendance in these
outreach activities are local utility and service providers, who will contact the MSU IAC to
conduct assessments for facilities in their areas. Many of the assessments conducted in the non-
TVA areas of Mississippi have been through contacts with Entergy and Mississippi Power, the
non-TVA electrical utility providers in the State. Additionally, a number of former MSU IAC
students are currently working for utility service providers in Mississippi, Tennessee, and
Alabama; these former students utilize the MSU IAC services when appropriate. Examples of
IAC outreach activites to build a client base are as follows:
A presentation was made before the MSU Economic Development Outreach Forum about the
IAC. Economic development officers and other officials attended the conference to hear about all
the outreach opportunities MSU has to offer to the state of Mississippi.
A presentation was made about the IAC to the East Mississippi Business Development
Corporation who was holding an existing industry summit titled " Measurements, Profits and
manufacturing" for industry leaders located in East Mississippi.
The MSU IAC was invited by the Mississippi Manufactures Association (MMA) Energy
Committee Meeting to present information about the IAC.
Mississippi Power invited Mississippi State University Industrial Assessment Center to hold an
exhibitor booth at the Mississippi Power Annual Energy Management Symposium in
Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
Mississippi Power (Southern Company) visited the MSU IAC to discuss a more active
arrangement with the IAC program. With the higher fuel and utility costs their customers are
realizing, Mississippi Power is very much interested in energy conservation implementation.
They want to play a more active role in the MSU IAC's recommendations in terms of
participating in helping a facility implement MSU IAC recommendations. (Note: MS Power
told the MSU IAC that in a survey with their customers the utility provider was rated
unsatisfactory in assisting their clients with energy conservation.)
Southern Company (Mississippi Power) wrote a story about the MSU IAC that appeared in one
of their publications.
TASK 2: Promote and increase the adoption of assessment recommendations
The technical field office for the IAC program has accumulated complete data for Btu
and dollar savings from 2001 through 2004. The IACs are still completing the data for 2005 and
2006. From 2002-2004 the MSU IAC recommended 518,000 Btu's of energy savings to its'
clients. The clients have implemented 102,000 Btu's of energy savings resulting in 2 million
dollars in savings. Table 2 shows the MSU recommended savings and implemented savings
from 2001-2004. Factors that contribute to lack of implementation are: (1) a number of
qualifying facilities with lower than average utility bills, (2) facilities that are shut down, (3) lack
of capital to finance recommendations, (4) energy costs being viewed as not an important
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Hodge, b.K. & Emplaincourt, Mary C. The industrial Center at Mississippi State University, report, April 30, 2007; United States. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc890557/m1/2/: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.