Energy Efficient Air-Conditioning Systems in Singapore

Narrator: With temperature of 30 degrees Celsius common all year around,
humidity often exceeds 90%. To keep the office and factory
workers cool, this means air conditioning systems that stay on
every day of the year. And the air conditioning is the single largest
user of energy in Singapore’s commercial buildings. That fact is
meant a major business opportunity for one company.

Supersymmetry designs the world’s most energy efficient air
conditioning systems based on exact calculations of waste and
need in the offices and factories. It sets its store by saving energy.
It's among those questioning the need for a new $5 billion power
station that the government is planning. It will cost an estimated
$1700.00 for every person living in the country at the time when
Singapore already has an energy surface.

Lee Eng Lock: I can understand that the government has focused on economic
growth and industry and tourism and so on doesn’t have much
experience in this but they have young and bright bureaucrats. I'm
sure these people will inform of what other people are doing better,
smaller, faster, and cheaper than us. We should be competitive. We
should have to look at that and perhaps review our position on
spending so much public money with very little returns.

Yeo Cheow Tong: We have active text program. Companies which are able to use
equipment which are more energy efficient get some types of
benefits. They are able to ride off the investment faster and they
get some savings than we. So we have active program of
encouraging companies to be more efficient. But as the economy
continuous to grow, we also have to make sure that we have
enough energy for the future activities, industrial activities,
commercial activities, the future economic activities. And it is
inline with that that we continue to plan for future growth and
future power are requirements.

Narrator: Supersymmetry’s energy efficient technology is being used here of
Western Digital, a company that makes disk drives for personal
computers. It needs an environment that’s absolutely clean for its
manufacturing process. The new system works so well that
Western Digital recently won an award as the world’s most
efficient factory. Supersymmetry did the work enough and gets
paid from the savings made when the clients’ energy bills go
down. A client keeps half the money it saves. Suppersymmetry is
paid the other half.

Bill Kunde: Energy efficient of energy consumption is nothing more than a part
of our overhead. We've benchmarked ourselves and everybody is
competing for the same amount of profit dollars in this
marketplace. For us, we are right now with all our programs four
times more efficient in our nearest competitor from the standpoint
of consuming energy and the cost to build our products. You need
to get one success under your bill to prove to the company you
work for that energy efficiency really does have its paybacks.