Planing For Energy Management

Ideas for today and tomorrow

Planing The Program

The initiative to start a program must come from somewhere. Let us now suppose that the time is appropriate to initiate a program, regardless of whether the incentive was passed down from top managementor was passed up the line from the operations end of the firm. Table 4.1 outlines the planning step necessary to establish the program. First, we shall considers the initation phase.

Initiation Phase

Once the decision has been made to initiate the program, the energy manager should take certain steps to insure its acceptance and succsess. The first step, depending on the size complexity of the firm, might be to formulate an energy management committee with representatives from each department or division using energy. Next, the energy manager should explain to the department head or line supervisors the need program, both from an economic and a supply point of view.

Audit and Analysis Phase

After the initiation pahse is completed, the next phase involves determining where and how energy is being used. This requires the following steps:
Review

of historical energy use

Energy

audits
analyses

Engineering Economic

analyses

State the desired goal.

State the desired objective. Use multiple points if necessary.

Todays Situation

Summary of the current situation. Use brief bullets, discuss details verbally.

How Did We Get Here?

Any relevant historical information. Original assumptions that are no longer valid.

Available Options

State the alternative strategies. List advantages & disadvantages of each. State cost of each option.

Recommendation

Recommend one or more of the strategies. Summarize the results if things go as proposed. What to do next. Identify action items.