Business Equipment Electrification - helping our customers achieve their sustainability goals is important to us
Our electric advisory team helps commercial and industrial customers evaluate options to employ electrified equipment. Together, we can help you identify ways to achieve your sustainability goals, reduce operating cost and boost your bottom line.

We assist commercial and industrial businesses... 

  • Identify opportunities to employ electrified technologies
  • Evaluate business needs and costs of electric equipment
  • Understand rate options and associated bill impacts
  • Classify non-energy benefits

*Check out our Electrification Services PDF for more information.

Interested? 

Email electrification@evergy.com to schedule a discussion about your specific needs, or reach out to your Evergy customer solutions manager.

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Features and benefits of example technologies

Infrared heat provides heat to the object without heating the air around it.

Benefits:

  • Reduced energy consumption (up to 50%)
  • Low emissions
  • Better indoor air quality
  • Low maintenance and longer life cycle

Applications: Spot heating/area heating. equipment heating, parts warm up, drying

Electric forklifts are quickly gaining market share of indoor/outdoor lifts.

Benefits:

  • Battery and charging evolution make it possible to operate seamlessly for an entire shift
  • No impact to indoor air quality 
  • Quieter than non-electric lifts, allowing for improved communication and safer operation

Solutions are flexible and scalable with no on-site carbon emissions and lots of savings opportunity.  

Benefits:

  • Reduced energy consumption 
  • Cleaner
  • Higher-quality finish
  • Highly controllable and repeatable, helping eliminate product rejects and reworking

Applications: Pre-heating, supplemental heating, curing, improved quality control

Key features of induction heating include fast heating cycles and accurate heating patterns without heating the entire component.

 Benefits:

  • Quick and highly controllable component heating
  • Heat only the area needed
  • Improved process efficiency
  • No on-site emissions
  • Temperature control

eTRUs are a better environmental and economical alternative to engine idling.

Benefits:

  • Eliminates diesel engine operation when connected
  • Allows compliance with new idling laws
  • Operational savings over burning a fuel

Electric terminal trucks are quickly becoming the safer, healthier trucks preferred by drivers and businesses.

Benefits:

  • Quiet and smooth operation
  • Reduced maintenance
  • Less downtime
  • Significant environmental benefits

Electric HVAC systems have advanced in performance and efficiency, improving comfort and control.

Benefits:

  • Reduced energy bills
  • More evenly heated and/or cooled work environment, which equals happier employees
  • Reduced maintenance and repair costs

Applications: VRF/VRV, heat recovery chillers, heat pumps, geothermal

UV heating and curing is a time and money saving alternative that's increased automation in many manufacturing industries.

Benefits:

  • High speed
  • Lower temperatures
  • Solventless process

Applications: Curing inks, coatings and adhesives, polymerization of coatings, disinfection

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