Energy Management Technologies

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  Thermal Energy Storage Technologies for Sustainability

  Systems Design, Assessment and Applications

  • S. Kalaiselvam, R. Parameshwaran(Authors)
  • 2014(Publication Date)
  • Academic Press

    (Publisher)

  Chapter 1

  Energy and Energy Management

  Abstract

  Energy is the lifeline of all human activities and the chief catalyst for the overall development of the key sectors within a country. The role of energy sources and proper energy management techniques can be considered the decisive factors that merit the economic potential status for a developed country among the world’s nations. The challenges pertaining to the extraction, generation, and distribution of energy have to be confronted at every step of the energy-efficient systems design. This would help acheive the energy conservation potential as well as carbon emissions reduction. The development of state-of-the art technologies amalgamated with renewable energy integration would contribute to offsetting the future energy demand/consumption without sacrificing energy efficiency and environmental sustainability.

  Keywords Energy Energy management Energy efficiency Environmental sustainability Energy conservation Energy consumption Energy sources Renewable energy integration Sustainability

  1.1 Introduction

  Energy and energy management are two facets of a mature technology that would move the economic status of a country from normal to the height of societal development. A nation with a strong mission of ensuring energy efficiency at each step of its societal development can sustain higher economic growth on a long-term basis. The increasing concerns about climate change and environmental emissions have led to conserving energy through the development of several energy-efficient systems. The underlying concept behind this is the reduction of extensive utilization of fossil fuel or primary energy sources and their associated carbon emissions. From this perspective, the following sections are designed to explain energy concepts, project energy demand/consumption, and describe possible energy management techniques that would be helpful for the development of a sustainable future.

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  Sustainable Energy Management

  • Mirjana Radovanovic, Stevan Popov, Sinisa Dodic(Authors)
  • 2012(Publication Date)
  • Academic Press

    (Publisher)

  Energy management is a particularly demanding challenge in all areas, especially in terms of the need to manage energy in a manner required by the modern world, which is not a simple application of the process of management in the field of energy. With the increasing intensity of energy use in the world, there has been a need to develop adequate energy management at all levels, where it is necessary to develop mechanisms that will react and adapt the whole process of management, depending on the character and intensity of changes taking place in the environment.

  The process of energy management can be seen in an extremely simplified way as a process that takes place from the moment of extraction of energy raw material to its final consumption and disposal of the waste energy. This process takes place in an extremely complex environment, is subject to the impact of numerous factors, and represents certain challenges in countries and regions where very stable conditions prevail and parameter changes are reduced to minimum. A particular problem is power management in the areas where frequent changes occur regarding type and intensity. Moreover, particularly challenging is the attempt to develop a unique model for energy management globally.

  With the introduction of the principle of sustainability, as the only principle of the development of mankind in the future, the issues of energy management are given a new dimension, which greatly differs from traditional management and imposes the need for the adoption of new solutions. In the most widely accepted context, energy management involves the use of a sustainable model of strategic management in the field of monitoring of energy flows in terms of production, transport, transformation, and consumption.

  Given the complexity of energy management, it is necessary to use the available approaches and modify them in accordance with the requirements of sustainability. Creating an adequate model of sustainable energy management is only possible with the integration of sustainable development requirements, particularities of the energy sector, and the science of strategic management. By integrating these criteria a new interdisciplinary approach to energy management has been created that has its own characteristics and is subject to changes depending on many factors. Therefore, it is primarily necessary to give a brief overview of the development of the science of strategy and strategic management in general.

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  Smart Geospatial Practices and Applications in Local Government

  An Altogether Different Language

  • David A. Holdstock(Author)
  • 2019(Publication Date)
  • CRC Press

    (Publisher)
• 9. Building a geospatially driven sustainable community through good management practices. This will include sustainable management regions, zones and neighborhoods.
• 10. Promoting and managing the regionalization of government operations through smart geospatial technology and geo-smart government.
• 11. Applying benefit realization planning and monitoring to geospatial technology.
• 12. Planning, designing and deploying geospatial fusion centers.
• 13. Improving sensitivity to a new culture with new values.
• 14. Managing advanced cyber security.
• 15. Improving advanced data interpretation techniques. Rapid real-time data will require understanding and interpretation.
• 16. Improving predictive analytics.
• 17. Focusing geospatial adoption across business lines.
• 18. Managing a total GIS ecosystem.
• 19. Managing education pathways throughout local government.
• 20. Managing the move to 3D GIS.
• 21. Advancing deeper geospatial capabilities across all local government departments.
• 22. Using 3D, web, mobile and desktop geo-ecosystem to map, manage and support decision related to the shifting challenges of the city of the future.
• 23. Understanding and managing the future challenges of local government.
The following list details the primary issues facing a local government GIS team. The GOI should be prepared and focused on ways to map , manage , analyze , assess and use