Canadian Shield Energy Solutions Inc (CSE) announced Jan. 3 that the company will merge with Sudbury's BESTECH, one of Canada’s leading mine engineering and automation firms specializing in software development and energy management.
“We believe this merger is an excellent opportunity for both companies to deliver high impact energy management solutions to our clients,” said company president Dan Dumais.
CSE provides energy management consulting for large industrial load clients in North America. The company assists its customers in effectively reducing its energy consumption and increasing its energy efficiency. CSE clients include Xstrata Nickel, Tembec and Navita Systems Inc.
BESTECH recently introduced an innovative mine-wide energy management solution to the industrial sector earlier this year, called NRG1-ECO (Energy Consumption Optimization). Vale’s Coleman Mine and Xstrata’s Fraser mine in Sudbury have recently commissioned the NRG1-ECO’s Ventilation-On-Demand control strategy which is a hardware and software solution that significantly reduces energy consumption associated with ventilation, dewatering and compressed air.
Dumais will join BESTECH’s team to manage NRG1-ECO project implementations and commissioning. He will also assist BESTECH’s industrial clients in accessing the various energy funding programs and in minimizing energy costs by participating in various market programs.
BESTECH CEO Marc Boudreau stated that, “CSE’s merger with BESTECH offers great value to our customers; the combination of BESTECH’s long history of developing innovative energy management solutions and CSE’s ten years of specialized energy consulting will maximize our clients’ energy saving results.”
