Unsustainability
Warning signs
• Energy crises
• Economic fragility
• Food insecurity
• Water shortages
• Terrorism, refugees
• Natural, economic and social
disasters
Three-way approach to clean environment
Reduce demand
(energy saving)
Use fossil fuels in the
Maximise the use of renewable cleanest possible way
energy sources
Compounding losses…or savings—so
start saving at the downstream end
How to become
Energy Efficient?
Where do you start?
CP: Cleaner Production
Company management
Improved energy efficiency can help your
company:
• Reduce energy and production costs
• Improve environmental performance and
reduce greenhouse gas emissions
• Reduce exposure to rising energy prices and
energy shortages
• Win new customers who consider
environment as an important selection criteria
Benefits from energy efficiency are reduced
risks and increased profits for companies
through:
• Reduced operating costs
• Reduced impact from rising energy prices
• Improved productivity and product quality
• Improved reputation with customers, government
and public
• Improved staff health and safety and morale
• Improved compliance with legislation and ISO 14001
targets
• Improved environmental performance
COMPANY ENERGY EFFICIENCY
METHODOLOGY
How to become Energy Efficient ?
Companies can improve their energy
efficiency through a
6-step Cleaner Production approach
The main purpose of the pre-assessment is to
identify where the biggest areas for energy
savings are. This information can be obtained
through existing documentation and computer
systems, interviews with staff, a walkthrough of
the plant, and simple monitoring.
Better understand the focus area
Get feedback from production staff about problems they have
with procedures and operating equipment, and possible
losses of energy and other materials
Write down any visible losses of energy and materials such
as steam and water leaks, damaged valves and pipelines,
excess blow-down from the boiler, etc
Obtain information about quantities and costs for the inputs
and outputs of each focus area step through interviews with
staff, metering reports, or taking measurements
Once we have identified the losses, it is important to
answer the question: Why are these losses occurring?
The best way to analyze the causes is through a
brainstorm session
The Team can now investigate which options are
technically, economically and environmentally feasible.
you need to identify other possible reasons for
implementing the option
you need to think of possible barriers to implementing the
option.
Now that we know which options are feasible we want to
know: which options should be implemented first,
second, third, etc. Organize another Team meeting to
give each option a rank
The purpose of step 6 is to ensure that the company
continues with improving energy efficiency in a
systematic way that is integrated in company processes
Production staff
You can be a boiler operator, maintenance staff,
mechanical or electrical engineer. As production staff you
can do a lot to help your company improve energy
efficiency. This will also help you to:
Get recognized by management and strengthen your job
security!
Develop skills that are wanted by your company but also
desirable by other companies
Improve occupational health and safety conditions at your
workplace
Suppliers
Companies have many suppliers who provide
them with various goods and services such as
raw materials, energy, equipments, packaging
materials, maintenance services, and transport.
Poor quality goods and services are often the
cause of high energy costs. Examples include
poor quality coal, cheap but inefficient boilers
and poor management of air compressors by
contractors.
Suppliers
As a supplier, by helping your industrial
customers to improve energy efficiency :
You are more likely to keep customers in the
long term because you save them money
Make it easier to promote yourself with new or
potential customers
You can ask higher prices for your products and
services because your customers will earn the
cost back through improved energy efficiency
Facilitators
Companies cannot improve energy efficiency
on their own. Several types of organizations
can act as facilitators to help companies, such
as industry associations, research institutes,
consultants, Cleaner Production Centers,
universities, chambers of commerce and
NGOs.
Facilitators
By helping companies to improve energy
efficiency you can:
Help industry reduce costs and exposure to
rising energy prices
Develop useful skills and experience within
your organization and as an individual
Contribute to an improved environment
through reduced greenhouse gas emissions
Customers
Customers of industrial companies can be
other manufacturers (e.g. car manufacturers
buying steel), wholesalers (e.g. a wholesaler
buying paper to sell to retailers), retailers (e.g.
a household store buying ceramic products to
sell in its stores) or end users (e.g.
construction companies buying cement).
Customers
As a customer, by encouraging your suppliers
to improve energy efficiency you can:
Reduce purchase costs as energy cost
savings can be incorporated in the price of the
goods you buy
Protect and improve your reputation through
improved environmental management of your
suppliers