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Module 3 Revision: Energy Audit Assignment

This document discusses energy management and its importance. It defines energy management as controlling and reducing an organization's energy consumption through measurement, analysis, and programs to reduce usage and costs. The key benefits of energy management are reducing costs, carbon emissions, and improving sustainability and security. Globally, energy management is important to reduce environmental damage, dependence on fossil fuels, and meet regulatory requirements. The objectives of an energy management system are to understand how much, how, when, where and what quality of energy is consumed. An energy manager's responsibilities include developing conservation plans, improving monitoring, analyzing equipment efficiency, and creating training programs. Energy conservation is important for India given its high energy consumption and need for further development.

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Module 3 Revision: Energy Audit Assignment

This document discusses energy management and its importance. It defines energy management as controlling and reducing an organization's energy consumption through measurement, analysis, and programs to reduce usage and costs. The key benefits of energy management are reducing costs, carbon emissions, and improving sustainability and security. Globally, energy management is important to reduce environmental damage, dependence on fossil fuels, and meet regulatory requirements. The objectives of an energy management system are to understand how much, how, when, where and what quality of energy is consumed. An energy manager's responsibilities include developing conservation plans, improving monitoring, analyzing equipment efficiency, and creating training programs. Energy conservation is important for India given its high energy consumption and need for further development.

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Module 3 Revision

ENERGY AUDIT ASSIGNMENT


What is ‘Energy Management’
• Energy management is the means to controlling and reducing
any organization's energy consumption.
• Energy management is the means to reduce operating costs and
develop a cleaner environment. Energy management is a continual
improvement process involving visualizing real-time energy
consumption, measurement, analysis and implementation of programs
to reduce usage and cost.
• An Energy Management Program (EMP) is a management
strategy designed to reduce wasteful and expensive use of energy.
EMPs are tailored to your locations, usage and unique business goals.
What is need of ‘Energy
Management’
The controlling and reducing any organization's
energy consumption is important because it enables us
to:

• Reduce costs – this is becoming increasingly important as


energy costs rise. Energy represents 25% of all operating costs
in an office building.
• Reduce carbon emissions in order to meet internal
sustainability goals and regulatory requirements.
Top 5 Reasons for Implementing Energy
Management

• Saves you money.


• Improves the economy.
• Is good for the environment.
• Improves national security.
• Enhances quality of life.
Why is it important?

• Energy management is the key to saving energy in any


organization. Much of the importance of energy saving stems
from the global need to save energy
The global need to save energy

Globally we need to save energy in order to:


• Reduce the damage that we're doing to our planet.
• Reduce our dependence on the fossil fuels that are becoming increasingly
limited in supply.
Objectives of Energy Management.
The basic objective of any Energy Management System is to answer these 5
questions :-
• How much energy is consumed.
• How is energy consumed.
• When is the energy consumed.
• Where is the energy consumed.
• What is the quality of energy consumed.
The basic principles of energy management so
employed are as follows:
• Identification and tracking of Energy Pattern.

• Controlled energy system’s use.


• Properly maintained and managed facilities.
• Good Maintenance practices.
• Preventive and Reactive Maintenance.
• Distinction between Maintenance and Energy Management.
• Proper HVAC systems.
Steps in Energy Management Program.

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• Step 1: Understand your energy costs.
• Step 2: Compare yourself.
• Step 3: Understand when energy is used.
• Step 4: Understand where energy is used.
• Step 5: Match usage to requirement
• Step 6: Maximise system efficiencies.
• Step 7: Optimise the energy supply.
Responsibilities of Energy
Manager.
Responsibilities of Energy Manager :-

• Prepare an annual activity plan and present to management concerning


financially attractive investments to reduce energy costs.
• Establish an energy conservation cell within the firm with management’s consent
about the mandate and task of the cell.
• Initiate activities to improve monitoring and process control to reduce energy
costs.
• Analyse equipment performance with respect to energy efficiency.
Responsibilities of Energy Manager :-
• Ensure proper functioning and calibration of instrumentation required to assess
level of energy consumption directly or indirectly.
• Prepare information material and conduct internal workshops about the topic
for other staff.
• Improve disaggregating of energy consumption data down to shop level or
profit centre of a firm.
• Establish a methodology how to accurately calculate the specific energy
consumption of various products/services or activity of the firm.
Responsibilities of Energy Manager.
• Develop and manage training program for energy efficiency at operating levels.
• Co-ordinate nomination of management personnel to external programs.
• Create knowledge bank on sectoral, national and international development on
energy efficiency technology and management system and information
denomination.
• Develop integrated system of energy efficiency and environmental up-
gradation.
Need for energy conservation in India.

• India ranks sixth in the world as far as total energy consumption is concerned, it
still needs much more energy to keep pace with its development objectives.
• It has been estimated that nearly 25,000 MW can be saved by implementing end-
use energy efficiency and demand side management measures through out India.
• One unit of energy saved at the consumption level reduces the need for fresh
capacity creation by 2 times to 2.5 times.
• India’s projected economic growth rate is slated at 7.4per cent during the period
1997-2012
Need for energy conservation in India.

• The policy goals and concepts would have to be shifted from “energy
conservation” to “energy efficiency”, and from “energy inputs” to the
“effectiveness of energy use” and “energy services”.
• Electrical power is one of the scarce resources in our country. Generation of
electricity is very capital intensive. 1 MW of power generation costs
approximately Rs. 4 crore because of the low plant load factor and high
transmission losses prevalent in the country. The installed capacity of power
station has to be therefore, 2.2 times the electrical load.
Monitoring and Targeting
• The purpose of monitoring and targeting (M&T) is to relate your energy consumption
data to the weather, production figures or other measures in such a way that you get a
better understanding of how energy is being used. In particular, it will identify if there
are signs of avoidable waste or other opportunities to reduce consumption.
• Energy monitoring and targeting (M&T) is an energy efficiency technique based on the
standard management axiom stating that “you cannot manage what you cannot
measure”. M&T techniques provide energy managers with feedback on operating
practices, results of energy management projects, and guidance on the level of energy use
that is expected in a certain period. Importantly, they also give early warning of
unexpected excess consumption caused by equipment malfunctions, operator error,
unwanted user behaviours, lack of effective maintenance and the like.
The foundation of M&T lies in determining the normal
relationships of energy consumptions to relevant driving factors
and the goal is to help business managers to :

•Identify and explain excessive energy use


•Detect instances when consumption is unexpectedly higher or lower than
would usually have been the case
•Visualize energy consumption trends (daily, weekly, seasonal, operational…)
•Determine future energy use and costs when planning changes in the
business
•Diagnose specific areas of wasted energy
•Observe how changes to relevant driving factors impact energy efficiency
•Develop performance targets for energy management programs
•Manage energy consumption, rather than accept it as a fixed cost
Thank you

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