course | Electrical Energy Saving in Industrial & Commercial Utilities

Energy management
 

The fundamental goal of energy management is to produce goods and provide services with the least cost and the least environmental effect. Energy management requires a careful balancing between efforts to use energy efficiently and meet quality of life requirements, while ensuring that primary mission requirements are met. Effective energy management strives to avoid conflicts between the two while achieving substantial energy reductions and cost savings.
 

To establish a successful energy program, the energy manager must have a good understanding of both the technical and managerial aspects of energy management. An Energy Audit is the key to a systematic approach for decision-making in the area of energy management. In general, an Energy Audit is the translation of conservation ideas into realities, by lending technically feasible solutions with economic and other organizational considerations within a specified time frame. The primary objective of an Energy Audit is to determine ways to reduce energy consumption per unit of product output or to lower operating costs.
 

Consider electric energy as a product: It is generated, transmitted, distributed, and sold to customers. The end user converts the electric energy into other forms, such as mechanical, thermal, and light energy. The users of electric energy expect a reasonable degree of reliability and quality of service. The quality of service depends on two major effects that result from the interactions among a particular load, other electrical loads, and the supplying system. First, the effect of a certain electric load or cluster of loads on the environment, i.e., on other electrical devices or equipment; Second, the effect the environment has on the performance and life span of the equipment.