energy management industry Articles
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3 Successful Case Studies in the Energy Management Industry
When discussing energy management in buildings, the focus often gravitates toward large retail, industrial, or corporate office spaces, while cultural buildings tend to remain in the periphery of the conversation. In this article, we will delve into the case studies in the energy management industry of three cultural buildings from an energy efficiency standpoint. Spacewell Energy has recently ...
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Industrial Energy Management: Wireless Industrial Energy Monitoring System
Industrial Energy Management: Wireless Industrial Energy Monitoring System DeviceBit has the ability to offer professional and complete wireless industrial energy monitoring solutions for energy services companies or facility managers. Our fully comprehensive enterprise-wide solution makes it easy to monitor and measure energy use and boost facility performance within tightening budgets. ...
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Tackling challenges in infrastructure operation and control: cross-sectoral learning for process and infrastructure engineers
The need for improving the operation and control of infrastructure systems has created a demand for optimisation and control methods that are applicable in the area of complex networked systems, which are operated by a multitude of actors in a setting of decentralised decision making. Because of the analogy between production systems and infrastructures, Process Systems Engineering (PSE) ...
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Engineering simulation and success in IoT product design
Authored by Raghu (Jayaraman) Raghuraman, Senior Vice President, Digital Engineering & Technical Debt at Schneider Electric. It takes time, precision, and dedication to create a reliable and robust IoT solution that would satisfy very specific requirements of industrial customers. As you can read in the blog of my product design colleagues, one of the best practices to create accurate and ...
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Energy management in the industry sector: A dynamic tool for energy saving and cost reduction
It is widely acknowledged that industry is one of the most important sectors of any state economy, contributing to its strategy for national development and security. Even though important technological improvements have been achieved in the production processes, still a profound characteristic of industrial activity is its gross energy consumption, which in many cases is liable for product costs ...
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A new species of global corporate risk: social issues, international firm expansion theory and crisis avoidance in the energy industry
International joint venture (IJV) agreements have long been regarded as the preferred method for risk mitigation for firms seeking to expand internationally. However, these agreements often fail to deliver on their promise of risk reduction, resulting in those firms managing conflicts and drawing the firm into a resource threatening crisis. The premise of this paper is that crisis management ...
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Achieve the ISO 50001 Standard with the help of eSight Energy Management Software.
As the ISO 50001 Standard continues to be adopted by organizations globally energy managers in all industries are looking for methods and tools to simplify the process of achieving the standard. Much of ISO 50001 focuses on policy making and monitoring results in order to ensure that the energy policy is successful- and a key tool to help achieve this is energy management software. An eSight ...
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Business model innovation for sustainable energy: how German municipal utilities invest in offshore wind energy
Offshore wind energy is considered to have tremendous potential for Germany’s future electricity supply. Due to the technology’s capital intensity, however, offshore wind energy has so far been considered the domain of large utilities. Municipal utilities on the contrary traditionally have strong ties to their community and conduct low risk business models at the regional and local level. ...
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Environmental attitudes in the UK nuclear energy industry
The relatively low carbon footprint of nuclear energy development, when compared to fossil fuel alternatives, is widely cited as one of the main factors influencing the recent policy trend in the UK. This paper examines the shift in UK nuclear energy policy in the 21st century from a position opposed to atomic energy expansion to one in its favour, focusing on the role of carbon emissions. The ...
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How to monitor your energy consumption effectively
An increased need to act on energy management issues has put a priority on aM&T systems for any company wanting to monitor their energy use effectively. Rising energy costs and the current economic crisis have put an increased focus on controlling costs, providing more reasons than ever to act on energy management issues. Industrial and commercial organisations are seen themselves ...
By Vital Energi
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Subsidy Independence – A Step Closer to Energy Asset Management Transformation
The marathon renewable energy assets have been running for more than a decade seems to be approaching the finish line. Where we started off with handmade #gogreen slogans, and a wishlist of subsidies; today, clean energy asset management has come a long way. Hence, it has become competitive enough to add subsidy independence to its ever-growing list of strengths. Across the world, renewable ...
By Powerhub
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New direction for that federal agency whose name I can’t remember
The US Department of Energy’s reputation is now enshrined as the agency that Republican presidential contender Rick Perry wants to dismantle – if only he could remember its name. But a recent report by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences offers a different direction for the federal agency, one that may not make it more memorable, but a bit more people-centered. The academy ...
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Energy Management Contract
1. Introduction Energy management contract (EMC) is a new market-oriented energy saving mechanism. It is not to market a product or a technology, but a financial management method to reduce the energy costs. EMC companies provide the customers with a complete set of energy saving services, including energy auditing, project design & financing, engineering construction, equipment ...
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Trends in the Energy Sector Digitalisation
As the intensifying debate around climate change amplifies, the energy sector is continuing its trend toward phasing out fossil fuels and moving towards reliance on renewable energy. The American Energy Information Administration (EIA) has reported that it expects about 65 GW of coal power to be retired between now and 2030 and that nearly 90 GW has already been phased out since 2011. The latest ...
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7 Theses on Storage Systems in Commercial Applications
Solar storage systems are now the focus of attention more than ever before. The application areas are as different as the requirements. While private PV system operators work toward optimizing self-consumption, storage systems in industry are mainly used to provide control reserve and thus ensure grid stability. In commercial storage system applications, the main focus is on efficiency and a ...
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Key decisions for sustainable utility energy management
This paper summarizes the outcomes of the international sustainable energy management workshop as part of the Water Research Foundation project “Decision Support System for Sustainable Energy Management.” This paper provides a review of key decisions and barriers to water utility energy management. This paper also provides a discussion of a decision framework to address sustainable energy ...
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'Total environ-mentality' culture: re-engineering the American nuclear power industry through learning from multi-national, multi-level experience
Applying lessons learned at the national, the utility, and the plant level, from selected segments of the world-wide nuclear power industry, might facilitate an environmentally acceptable renaissance in the US. It can be deduced that the core of all the continuous quality improvement and re-engineering programmes, championed by the top management of nuclear power utilities around the world, ...
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From voluntary to mandatory – energy management systems in the United States
As cap and trade legislation in the United States has slowly faded as a distant and forgotten memory, energy efficiency standards for commercial buildings and industrial facilities have simultaneously emerged as a viable and palatable alternative that could achieve significant greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions. Indeed, the industrial and commercial sectors alone account for 58 percent of ...
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First Pfizer Plant worldwide certified to ISO 50001 standard - achieved with Enerit Software case study
Pfizer’s Loughbeg site became the first Pfizer pharmaceutical plant worldwide to achieve the ISO 50001 standard in late 2011. The pharmaceutical company has long been recognized as one of the industry leaders in energy management. Pfizer’s global “Energy and Climate Change Program” (ECC) is an all-inclusive, cross-divisional initiative seeking to optimize the consumption ...
By Enerit Ltd
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Energy management for increased profitability
“The cost of purchasing the energy needed for production by an industrial facility is viewed as managed input and typically receives significant attention, while the use of that energy once it is inside the factory is often viewed as simply the cost of doing business. While this is not true in all industrial facilities, experience has shown that unless the facility actively manages energy ...
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