I consider
that the license is not worth the 20.000+ Sterling that I was charged for. The
main reasons are:
- Among other claims, Enigin License's salesmen mention a “Licensing Opportunity”offering "a unique and exceptional combination of products and services".
I can say, without doubt, that the above claim is untrue. They are offering a series of products with a small attractive for most energy consumers:
-
The
Eniscope is overprized (they expect their distributors to sell it above 4.000 US
Dollars to the end user, but anyone can find such kind of smart
meters in the market at much lower prices. Also, they don’t mention that the
user must pay a monthly fee for the Eniscope to log the data in their server.
Also, in a typical installation, it’s very unlikely to save between a 10% and
20% of the energy consumption, as they claim insistently. (Obviously, in some exeptional cases, eventually a high saving can be achieved).
-
The
CUES will only work in open, vertical refrigerators. The price (and the profit
margin involved) of the CUES won’t
tipically cover the costs of selling it to a small or medium store, and
an Enigin Distributor won’t have easy access to sell it to big stores (during
the Mindshare training we are being discouraged to approach big companies).
-
LESS
is barely profitable for retrofit installations: the savings won’t pay back the
cost of the units plus installations in years. For new installations, building
companies buy from general lighting suppliers, not from small energy saving
companies.
-
Led
lighting is a concept now entering very strong in the market, as everybody knows. But
the product range that they offer is very small and overpriced. Also, in general lighting
products are being purchased from general lighting suppliers, not from small
energy saving companies.
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Finally
iMEC, these products are to be sold by engineering companies that also offer
other highly sophisticated energy saving devices and applications.
