Managing your energy consumption could be very challenging predominantly during present electricity tariff and escalation of oil & gas prices. With the increasing of other production cost such as raw material and labour, reducing the energy cost may the only way for the company to remain competitive and stay in the business. This blog discusses all related issues in managing your energy consumption efficiently and in a systematic way.

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Thursday, May 12, 2011

Monitor your energy consumption, manage your carbon footprint

Monitoring your energy consumption is a crucial part and it is the first step in managing your energy consumption effectively. Moreover, with the current Efficient Electrical Energy Manager Regulation by Energy Commission makes the energy data gathering and analysis of your energy consumption become more important in ensuring the data submitted are accurate and very often that archiving the historical energy data for analysis are time consuming or may be not available. Data gathering is a key activities for Energy Manager or energy engineer in analysing the data so that an appropriate energy saving measures can be recommended and implemented. However with the current trend of multi-tasking jobs, Energy Manager is always a part-time job. It is a time consuming to gather the data and analyse it. 
Nowadays, many energy monitoring system offer some advance features not like as ordinary meter or smart meter. Like Eniscope by Enigin, they offer a friendly and effective energy monitoring system to assist Energy Manager in monitoring and tracking electricity consumption. Conducting electrical energy audit would also become easier as all the data and analysis are already done in the computer and getting a data for analysis will not be easier like this.
This system also provide real-time monitoring facility.  Real-time and Analytics as the first step in developing a robust energy saving programme… only then we can accurately measure and quantify the benefits of the many load-side products currently on the market. The first step in any robust energy management programme is to take control of the situation and understand the problem – before investments are made in expensive solutions that may, or may not as the case may be, give an acceptable result. Eniscope Real-time and Analytics removes the uncertainty and risk, and is the foundation stone on which everything else is facilitated. Moreover this system provides a useful analysis and diagnostics facility which usually done by Energy Manager or Auditor manually.
On the other hand, this system allows you to monitor remotely regardless of location, as it monitoring is on web-based system. So you can monitor your energy anywhere, anytime. For the organisation that want to embark into energy management activity, this system could be a useful tools in creating the awareness among the staff. This system allows you to connect to a public through large screen media and display it at meeting room, lobby or may be CEO's room. 
With its multiple metering support system, it will enable you to monitor more than just one total reading. You can monitor each level of your building electricity consumption, sub-process, main machine and etc. 
So ... it is now Virtual Energy Manager ... putting YOU in control of your energy costs and your Carbon Footprint 

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

ENERGY EFFICIENCY and CLIMATE CHANGE


Energy efficiency represents the lowest hanging fruit in solving the Climate change challenges. According to a joint study by McKinsey and Vattenfall, energy efficiency savings can reduce CO2-eq emissions by over 4.7 Gt by 2030 at a negative cost. In other words, these measures can be implemented profitably with extremely short payback periods and high internal rates of return. Residential energy efficiency investments typically provide annual returns of 10% or more, but commercial building and industrial upgrades can achieve rates of return of 30-50% or more. A recent study by IEA concluded that if best practices were used in the industrial sector, CO2 emission reductions of 1.9 to 3.2 Gt are possible, and if all countries used best practices for fossil fuel production, reductions of 1.8 to 2.5 Gt are possible. FERC estimates that existing demand response systems could reduce electricity requirements by 37.5 GWe. Currently, waste heat from electricity generation and industrial processes is simply vented. The DOE reports that available waste heat sources exceed the current production of all other U.S. renewable power sources combined — 7 Quad BTU.
According to the IEA, energy efficient buildings, industrial processes and transportation could reduce the world's energy needs in 2050 by 33%, and become crucial in controlling global greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions.


Continue reading on Examiner.com: What is Green Economy? Trends and Statistics - Toronto Finance | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/finance-in-toronto/what-is-green-economy-trends-and-statistics#ixzz1M12Fy8QG