Personalized energy- and moneysaving tips for every business
Whether you own a local flower shop or a manufacturing facility, lighting, air conditioning, IT and other equipment are essential to running your business. We know that each business has unique needs when it comes to the investments needed to maintain operations. Fortunately, you don’t necessarily have to make a big investment to save money on your energy bill.
Our Solutions for Business team specializes in working directly with businesses to identify ways to help you save through measures that work best for each customer. These can include anything from rebates for HVAC equipment to smart thermostats or simple saving tips for everyday energy use. Additionally, we can help your business identify small operational changes that may not only reduce your energy costs, but also improve your work environment and reduce maintenance expenses.
Here are just a few of the ways you can start saving money:
Business Energy Analyzer
• Visit aps.com/bea to take a quick online survey about your current operations.
• Answer questions about square footage, number of employees and more.
• Receive custom money- and energy-saving recommendations in just 10 minutes.
Lighting
• Clean the dust off fixtures, lamps and lenses every 6 to 12 months to maintain light levels.
• Replace lights in groups and switch to LEDs if you haven’t already. Lamps can lose up to 30 percent of light output over their service life. Group replacement saves labor and helps keep light levels high.
Heating and Cooling
• Install a smart thermostat and create a daily schedule with your optimal temperature settings.
• Save 2-3% for every degree you raise or lower your thermostat setting depending on the season.
— In the summer, we recommend 78-80 degrees when the building is occupied and bumping it to 85 degrees after hours.
— In the winter, try 70-72 degrees when the building is occupied and dropping it to 65 degrees after hours.
• Utilize ceiling fans to more evenly distribute air and eliminate hot and cold spots. The evaporative effect can make occupants feel 3-5 degrees cooler in the summer, but make sure it is not running and unnecessarily using energy when the room is empty.
• Install shade screens, window film or blinds to keep out the hot summer heat and open the blinds in the winter to take advantage of the radiant heat.
• Add a cool control device to your existing HVAC unit. The device makes the fan run longer to utilize more of the residual cooling in the coils.
• Install CO2 sensors so the HVAC system takes into account not just temperature preferences but air quality requirements.
Ventilation
• Check insulation levels, particularly in rooms that are reported as “hot” or “cold.”
• Make sure vents are clear so there is
proper airflow.
• Seal any gaps or holes around windows and doors, and encourage employees to keep them closed especially during heat waves and cold spells.
Custom Rebates
• Save money on equipment upgrades with rebates for smart thermostats, HVAC systems, IT equipment, variable speed drives, and more.
• Find a full list of available rebates at aps.com/ businessrebates.
For even more ways to save, visit aps. com/biztips or call the Solutions for Business team at (866) 2775605.
Rosa Blanca Restaurant, 714 E. Main St., is also now open for breakfast and lunch. Its specialty is chilaquiles in the style of Guanajuato.
The restaurant notes that “all of our authentic dishes are made from scratch using only the freshest seasonal ingredients, offering unique and delicious and homemade recipes.”
Rosa Blanca is located inside the San Miguel de Allende Venue.
The hours are 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday and 7 a.m. to 12 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. Reach the restaurant at 928-581-9545.
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SVN Velocity Commercial Real Estate has announced that 928X Motorsports LLC purchased the brand-new light industrial building at 12209 S. Avenue 4E. The business plans to open a state-of-the-art automotive repair shop as well as an aftermarket accessories shop in January.
928X Motorsports is a family-owned and -operated business “that will be committed to providing a level of service that people of Yuma deserve and demand,” Velocity said.
The 12,846-square-foot building is located close to the brand new 100,000-square-foot Almark Food Processing Facility as well as Marine Corps Air Station Yuma and Yuma International Airport.
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Yuma Sun readers have been asking what’s going on at the former site of the Jack in the Box near the Foothills Walmart. The space is being converted into a Wendy’s.
The fast-food burger chain took out building permits for tenant improvements and an addition at 8007 E. 32nd St. Word is the restaurant will open before the end of the year.
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A new Chipotle Mexican Grill in Yuma is a special one because it’s the first one in Arizona that has a drive-thru pickup lane, or a “Chipotlane,” as spokesperson Carly Connor calls it.
Connor noted that the new restaurant located at 3080 S, 4th Ave., in the parking lot of the Southgate Mall, has a lane that allows customers to pick up digital orders without leaving their cars. To use the Chipotlane, customers should first order online or via the app. They will then receive a notification with the time their order will be ready. Once the order is ready, they may proceed to the drive-thru lane to claim their digital order from the pick up window.
The restaurant is the second Chipotle location in Yuma, and normal hours of operation are from 10:45 a.m. to 10 p.m., seven days a week.
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Another new restaurant in Yuma is the Burger Theory, which opened inside the Holiday Inn at 1901 E. 18th St. The space used to house Kem’s Restaurant. It has undergone a total remodel and now has red and black decor and a high bar and fireplace.
As the name implies, the restaurant specializes in burgers and has eight special burgers on the menu.
It serves breakfast and dinner and offers appetizers and standards such as omelettes, burritos, huevos rancheros, waffles, fish tacos and steak salads.
Breakfast is served from 6-11 a.m. and dinner from 4-10 p.m. If there is enough demand, the restaurant will open for lunch. The full-service bar is open until 11 p.m., and serves everything from wine, beer, margaritas, martinis and more.
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A business that is coming soon is Lapel’s Dry Cleaning. The company will open a franchise at 2595 S. 4th Ave., in the same building as USA Pawn.
According to its website, Lapels provides the “world’s only 100% environmentally non-toxic dry cleaning process.” Services include professional dry cleaning, laundry, alterations, shoe repair, gown preservation and rug cleaning. It will also accept leather, suede, comforters and household items.
For more information, call 928-259-7350.
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After practicing in Yuma for 57 years, Dr. Leo Land has officially closed Chaparral Veterinary Clinic, 1963 S. Arizona Ave.
“I enjoy the work. I’m going to miss the people and of course the dogs and the cats. I love the pets, I always enjoy seeing them. Especially the young ones, the puppies and the kittens coming in,” he said.Land, 82, spent all but the first 10 years of his career in the Chaparral clinic. He is still hoping someone will lease the building from him, for that purpose.
His office will be open at times for a few weeks to allow staff to copy patient records and for clients to pick them up. He has about 8,000 pet patients on file.
Dr. Land and his wife, Jo Ann, who managed the clinic’s business aspects, plan to take it easy as they spend time with their cat and two dogs.
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Saigon Pho, located at 700 E. 32nd St., on the site of the former Yuma Queen International Market, opened in
late September.
Saigon Pho specializes in pho, a Vietnamese soup made with broth, rice noodles, herbs and meat.
“Our pho is freshly cooked with select choice meats,’ owner Vinh Vo said, noting the restaurant focuses on
three kinds: vegetarian, beef and seafood.
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The restaurant will also offer other Vietnamese dishes, such as grilled pork and filet mignon over rice as well as Vietnamese-style egg rolls and spring rolls.
He’ll be adding more dishes to the menu. He’s been playing with 30 to 50 items, but first he wants to test out what the locals want before he settles on a final menu.
Saigon Pho will open from 11 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 12 to 7:30 p.m. on Sunday.
To reach Saigon Pho, call 928-276-4347.
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A new veteran-owned and -operated store is offering sports supplement and vitamins to Yumans. On Sept. 10, Nanook Nutrition opened its doors at 3939 Avenue 3E, Suite 118, in the Alarcon Center, right across from the Marine Corps Air Station.
The owners are Michael Erickson and his brother-in-law, Manny Manzano, who is active-duty military. Manzano is the one who noticed the lack of supplement brands in Yuma and told Erickson that this would be a good place to open a store that offers a variety of brands not available locally. Nanook is the Inuit name for polar bear, which is part of the store’s logo. The Inuit are the indigenous people in Alaska, and Erickson hails from there.
For more information, call 928-248-4198.
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Robert Haworth is launching two new businesses: the YES Business Network, a brand new business networking group that is powered by a digital platform called the YES Home Network.
YES is an acronym for Your Elite Service, he explained. His platform is a digital communications and referral marketing platform.
“I developed a faster and easier way for businesses to connect and market to their customers and for customers to connect back to their elite services by using the latest in artificial intelligence technologies, interactive voice response systems, and coming soon, Alexa and Google home services,” he added.
For more information, call Haworth at 239-7706559.