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Compressed Air & Site Utilities
Where compressed air is used in a brewery, and the ancillary loads (pumps, cold stores, lighting) that add up across the site.
9 min read · Jacob Willis, Net Zero Lead · Last reviewed July 2026
Compressed air and the site's ancillary loads rarely dominate a brewery's energy bill the way the boiler or the glycol plant do, but they're everywhere, they're easy to leave running, and the compressed air course elsewhere on this platform already covers the physics in full. This lesson is about where a brewery specifically uses air and ancillary power, not how compressors work.
In this lesson
- 01Where compressed air shows up in a brewery
- 02The ancillary loads that add up
- 03Why these matter for the audit, even though they're individually small
- 04Sources and further reading