Energy Centered Management

A Guide to Reducing Energy Consumption and Cost

Marvin T. Howell

• Publisher: River Publishers
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781000355741
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Betriebswirtschaft
• Subtopic: Industriemanagement

This book provides organizations with a guide to planning, developing, and implementing an energy reduction and management program. It is specially designed to achieve energy reduction deployment including top management for all employees and onsite contractors. Energy reduction deployment (ERD) can be implemented by itself and render significant savings; however, for even greater savings, this book shows how to implement energy centered management systems (ECMS) which can be in congruence with ISO 50001. This book assists in the hunt for energy waste and is designed to thoroughly cover ECMS plus addresses what additions are necessary to have ECMS conform to ISO 50001 Energy Management System (EnMS). It provides a checklist and information on how to perform an internal audit or self-inspection and discusses how to create an energy awareness organization culture.

Chapter 1

Energy Centered Management System

ENERGY CENTERED MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (ECMS)

In the United States, around $500 billion a year is spent on energy. In the world, industry consumes 51% of total energy produced. Energy costs represents up to 30% of corporate operating expenses. The U.S. Green Buildings Council estimates that commercial office buildings use, on the average, 20 percent more energy than they need to do. This is an astounding dollar loss to industry due primarily to the fact that management does not know where the waste is occurring and what to do to eliminate or reduce this loss. Reducing energy costs is a major opportunity for most organizations and/or companies today. The 20% more energy than needed is the energy waste that exists. The purpose of this book is to give organizations’ management a roadmap to reduce energy in an efficient and effective manner. ISO 50001 Energy Management System (EnMS) and Department of Energy’s Superior Energy Performance (SEP) give organizations a helpful guide for managing energy use, consumption and cost. However, they do not provide a strategic deployment strategy, method or system to do so. The energy reduction deployment model/process called energy centered management system is designed to deploy the energy policy from top management to every employee and contractor located on site. In designing the energy centered management system, human factors (or the stakeholders’ voice) were considered. ECMS borrowed from or incorporated concepts, methods, and principles from policy deployment, organizational behavior and change, metrics development process, critical success factors, reliability centered management and ISO 50001 Energy Management System. It does not require any duplication of work to implement ISO 50001 Energy Management System. In fact, it enhances ISO 50001 Energy Management System implementation.

In implementing any strategic initiative or objective, the human factors should be considered and addressed to ensure success. The internal players are top management, middle management, and employees and contractors assigned to the facility. Each has a stake in this effort and their thinking and motivation are different on energy reduction.

Figure 1-1. Human Thinking and Motivation—The Major Participants

The thinking and motivation are different for each participant; therefore, addressing their actions or considerations will differ. First, let us look at top management’s thinking.

The questions on the minds of top management need addressing to get energy reduction kicked off and on a path to becoming a reality. A consultant, internal or external, would be helpful at the beginning, although a diplomatic and competent energy manager should be able to accomplish this. He or she could gather energy bills for a few years, plot the data of energy use and cost, and then show what a 5%, 10%, 15% and 20% reduction would save in energy cost. The stakeholders are the board of directors (if the organization has one), their headquarters, the public, and their management and employees. Each of these would have different interests such as how much greenhouse gasses will be reduced, how disruptive will the program be to the organization, are adequate resources available, and what will be required of me if the effort is launched. The major potential cost savings will satisfy most of the stakeholders and gain their initial support.

Figure 1-2. Human Thinking and Motivation—Top Management

The consultant or energy manager can explain that other organizations have done this as a strategic objective and have been very successful. The risks are minimal if top management supports the effort and doesn’t just give lip service to it. The program will be successful, and they will get the credit for initiating it and supporting it to fruition.

What does top management need to do? They need to:

1. Appoint a management representative who will become their energy champion. He or she will run the day-to-day efforts and keep top management informed of progress and results. The energy champion should be a member of management and committed to reducing energy consumption and cost. One of the first duties of the energy champion will be to establish an energy team comprised of people from all major functional areas, thus making it a cross-functional team. The energy champion and energy team should develop a draft of the corporate objective or goal with a target for achieving a compelling energy policy for the organization. The energy champion will need to meet with top management and get their approval of both.

2. Top management should communicate the corporate objective/goal, the energy policy and why their achievements are important to the organization. They should encourage all the organization’s people to support the energy reduction initiative in any way they can. Top management should take advantage at any meeting to express their support for the energy reduction program.

Next, middle management does have a role in this important effort. See Figure 1-3 for their thinking and possible motivation.

Figure 1-3. Human Thinking and Motivation—Middle Management

Middle management wants to know what they can do. It is going to be up to the energy champion to let them know. First, some of them can serve on the energy team and the walkthrough of the facility or facilities. Once the energy conservation training is given to all the personnel in the organization, they can lead and encourage conservation efforts. They can assist in implementing IT power management and reducing paper use by duplexing and increasing electronics files. These initiatives will be discussed further in later chapters. It is good for their careers if they are recognized for their involvement and contributions. Their boss wants them to be involved and continue to do their full-time job well. They do have a lot to offer. The energy champion and energy team will tap them occasionally to help accomplish an objective or target some other essential tasks.

What about the employees? Figure 1-4 shows their original thinking.

Figure 1-4. Human Thinking and Motivation—Employees

The energy champion and energy team should develop energy awareness training and give it to all management, employees and contractors. An easy way t...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1 Energy Centered Management System
• Chapter 2 Energy Centered Planning and Development (ECP&D)
• Chapter 3 Energy Centered Waste (ECW)
• Chapter 4 Energy Centered Objectives (ECO)
• Chapter 5 Energy Centered Projects (ECP)
• Chapter 6 Energy Centered Maintenance (ECM)
• Chapter 7 Energy Reduction Deployment and ISO 50001 Energy Management System
• Chapter 8 Self Inspection and Internal Audits
• Chapter 9 Creating an Energy Reduction Culture and Emphasizing Energy Conservation
• Chapter 10 IT Power Management
• Chapter 11 Reducing Office Paper Use
• Chapter 12 Energy Centered Maintenance (ECM) & Energy Centered Projects (ECP) in Data Centers
• Chapter 13 Building Your Energy Reduction Plan
• Chapter 14 Drivers of Energy Reductions and Continuous Improvement & Verifying Results
• ECMS Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index