Energy is an increasingly strategic executive-level purchase decision
An Energy Management System (EnMS) is a framework for energy consumers including industrial, commercial and public sector organizations to manage their energy use. It helps companies identify opportunities to adopt and improve energy-saving technologies, including those that do not necessarily require high capital investment. In most cases, the successful implementation of an EnMS requires specialised expertise and staff training. Optimizing your industrial operations to improve energy efficiency can be a challenge. Strategic energy management allows you to gain control of your energy use and reduce consumption with no impact to production or product quality. With our products and services, you can gain real-time energy awareness, identify targeted areas to optimize, and improve the efficiency and profitability of operations.
The ISO 50001
The International Organization for Standardization has created a set of standards for energy performance, the ISO 50001. If we live in one of the 163 member countries, then we need to know and follow the ISO 50001.
The ISO created the 50001 to support the reduction of energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. In essence, it helps companies implement industrial energy management systems.
Industrial Energy Management
The convergence of sustainability pressures, rising energy prices, and insatiable demand will have profound impact on our relationship with energy and its effect on the macroeconomy. Today, there’s no shortage of industrial users eager to turn crisis into future profits by taking the steps now to gain control over energy costs and consumption. Concern over energy use and sustainability policy in industrial manufacturing facilities has been expanding for some time, but never at the current rate. While industrial businesses strive to find fresh ways to build a competitive advantage, attract customers and skilled employees, and improve profit margins and share price, there has clearly been a shift away from ambiguous rhetoric to finding actionable ways of improving energy management.
Designing an industrial energy management system
There are a number of ways to design and use an energy management system. To ensure efficient functioning, we will have to think about three key factors: Correct installation: We have to set our device(s) to collect data in the right places in the process. Accuracy: Accuracy means our device(s) must measure and collect the right data. KPI Monitoring: Choosing the right KPI and monitoring it accurately from a KPI platform can be crucial to the plant efficiency. All the field information comes through a gateway, field data manager, or programmable logic controller. Thus, one can integrate the information into a system or KPI platform to analyze all this data. Then, its easy to make better decisions and improve your plant’s energy consumption. This brings us to the standards for that consumption, the ISO 50001.
BEMS
BEMS are designed to monitor and control building services to ensure optimal level of efficiency is achieved. Services include lighting, air-conditioning and heating among others. The system monitors operating and external parameters e.g. occupancy, temperature and adjusts the operation of services to ensure minimal energy wastage against pre-determined parameters. They can be stand-alone but are often integrated with other systems such as fire detection and CCTV to form a more complete building management system (BMS).
Manufacturing Energy Management
Large industrial and commercial companies face increasingly challenging energy management decisions due to sustainability ambitions and concerns for energy costs. As executives make commitments for the long term, procurement and operations executives must justify the cost and prove the feasibility of energy-saving measures. While many energy supply and efficiency solutions are available, energy service companies and energy suppliers can provide their own offerings under business models such as energy-as-a-service (EaaS). In this Viewpoint, we explore how organizations can ensure these solutions are a win-win in the convergence domain between the energy and industrial/ commercial sectors.
Energy Management in Manufacturing: Monitoring Consumption
All forms of commerce require energy. Industrial processing and manufacturing facilities tend to be the largest consumers, but even service industries such as insurance and banking require large buildings which must be heated, cooled and lit. The newest large energy consuming enterprises are data centers, which are large clusters of computers which store and serve up the data which flows through the internet. Regardless of the end use or the industry, companies strive to minimize production costs by minimizing energy consumption.
In addition to economic incentives, it is increasingly accepted that every BTU that is generated by burning fossil fuels (the source of the majority of our energy) leads to an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide. This, in turn, appears to be causing some undesirable changes in the global climate. There are now more reasons than ever to focus on energy management in manufacturing.
Agricultural Energy Management
Large industrial and commercial companies face increasingly challenging energy management decisions due to sustainability ambitions and concerns for energy costs. As executives make commitments for the long term, procurement and operations executives must justify the cost and prove the feasibility of energy-saving measures. In this Viewpoint, we explore how organizations can ensure these solutions are a win-win in the convergence domain between the energy and industrial/ commercial sectors.
Agriculture is the human manipulation of the capture & flow in any ecosystems.
Our energy intelligence solutions help you get more value from energy data. You can take energy data and give it context in your organizational or production models. You can make the data more valuable and more relevant to the decisions you need to make around critical energy consumption. You can define the costs to produce individual products and make the production adjustments necessary to be most efficient and cost effective.
Energy challenges in the agriculture sector
Energy, especially in remote and rural locations, is a precious resource. Limits to energy and high prices are a restricting factor in expanding production. By reducing energy inefficiency, an agriculture business can free up resources to direct to new ventures and boost productive capacity.
Large water distribution systems for irrigation employ pump installations which can draw large volumes of electricity inefficiently. In the case of climate control, large scale refrigeration systems for food production can be incorrectly sealed, costing thousands in wasted energy.
By examining your business, we can identify waste and inefficiency, and find the most cost effective ways of remedying these problems.
