#5. How to reduce energy cost when CAPEX is limited
A lot of energy costs can be saved at manufacturing plant without CAPEX.
Is Ontario GA a blessing or a curse?
Should global adjustment (GA) exist or should it not? This is billion-dollar question. Leaving methods of calculation aside, I think GA is the best option Ontario ratepayers can have given our market realities. Here are the conditions that form Ontario electricity market: Demand varies through the day, week and year.Power generation technologies have different fixed, variable [...]
Energy conservation is an uphill battle, what is the better way?
A bottom up approach to energy cost reduction is a path of heroes: long, hard and massively ineffective, because it requires convincing managers on the way up. The top->bottom approach, on the other hand, is a simple and powerful approach known for decades as management: set goals, allocate resources and assign responsibilities. Now instead of [...]
6 Steps to effective Energy Management in manufacturing
In Energy Management the key word is management, not energy. So, all rules of management apply. Rule #1: it all starts from the top. This rules determines everything. 1. Effective Energy Management must have a C-level champion Practically speaking, if none of the top guns cares about energy management or at least energy efficiency, nothing [...]