Energy Management
What is Energy Management?
The Definition of Energy Management.
Energy Management is the practice of identifying, monitoring and targeting energy consumption within a site or building or group of sites. The objective is to manage consumption and identify energy saving opportunities.
Why is Energy Management important?
Energy is a major operating cost for many businesses and charities and Energy Management can provide the answer to reducing these costs. All organisations would like to save energy, but only by applying Energy Management principles on an ongoing basis can it deliver its full potential. Energy Management should be regarded as a fundamental function and an integral part of organisational management.
Effective Energy Management reduces costs by:
- Identifying and understanding consumption
- Identifying times and areas of excessive use (waste)
- Focusing on inefficiencies and waste
- Identifying sources of greatest energy consumption
- Calculating returns on capital investment
The cost of not addressing energy consumption may be higher than doing so.
All organisations can benefit from implementing energy management at a strategic level. Energy management is the means to control and reduce an organisation’s energy consumption, which facilitates:
- Reductions in environmental and electricity costs which are tied to consumption levels. Reducing consumption reduces the energy component of your monthly bill AND results in cuts in other charges.
- Reductions in energy costs – energy consumption represents an increasing portion of all operating costs in most buildings and industries.
- Reducing carbon emissions to achieve environmental, sustainability targets and regulatory requirements.
- Controlling consumption reduces costs and exposure to unforeseen geopolitical risk which impact profitability.
A comprehensive Energy Management system reduces risk by reducing demand and extends management control, providing more reliable budgets and forecasts.
Energy Management DELIVERS measurable reductions in UTILITIES CONSUMPTION FOR water, gas & electricity
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Key Topics:
- Prioritising opportunities to improve poor energy performance
- Creating clear consumption targets
- Identifying and tackling recurring energy waste
- Sharing consumption results with staff, clients and stakeholders
- Monitoring the results of energy saving measures
- Utilising readily available data to identify abnormal consumption
- Support energy audits and proactive investment planning
- Ongoing staff training to promote best practice and efficiency
- Increase organisational awareness
- Encourage behaviour change throughout the organisation
Compliance with legal requirements.
Sound energy management is increasingly mandated by UK Government to ensure compliance with legal obligations with the aim of reducing carbon emissions at organisation, national and global levels.
ESOS reporting and other government initiatives require energy management to be able to demonstrate:
- Accurate energy consumption and emissions data with verifiable audit trails
- Effective energy management systems for data handling and other required information
- Effective energy management practice
Cost effective Energy Management with Touchstone.
Our market leading Energy Management Platform combines ease of use with powerful analysis tools to support and deliver real energy reductions. The comprehensive Monitoring and Targeting platform provides an easy to use interface for all your key users.
Set Energy Efficiency Targets and create an Energy Action Plan
If you have undertaken an Energy Audit, you should be in a position to create your Action Plan.
The direction of travel to greater energy efficiency is one of continual improvement. Starting with those areas that present the greatest potential for the quickest results, your Action Plan should develop in a straightforward, and predictable progression that is easy to understand.
Do you know your Carbon Footprint?
Energy Management reduces emissions, protecting the environment and slows climate change, as well as lowering energy costs. Regular reporting identifies emissions and motivates staff to take positive action.
Identify and eliminate energy waste.
It is likely that the data will reveal potential ‘quick fixes’ which are a good place to start. Rapid results motivates staff, before moving on to more complex and extensive interventions.
Collect and utilise information from automatic meter readings.
Use reliable information to engage stakeholders. Compare energy use against other metrics like turnover, production or other sales measures.
Energy Management can deliver consistent value to all parts of an organisation including gas and electricity procurement, energy consumption, production and billing.
Energy Management helps organisations in all sectors to reduce operating costs.
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Energy Management can cut energy consumption and carbon emissions with no loss of efficiency.
Web based software accessible anywhere, any time.
- Multi utility
- Easy to use
- Sub-metering
- Online support
- Unoccupied waste
- Graphical reports
- Occupancy reports
- Supply capacity reset
- Large range of inbuilt reports
- Reports can be tailored to specific sites
- Ability to import data from other systems
The business benefits of Energy Management are too great to ignore. Simple measures deliver long-term and lasting cost and carbon savings.
To reduce consumption one first needs to understand how, why, when and where its occuring. With Advanced Meter Reading (AMR) your energy consumption can be displayed in easy to use reports tailored to your needs.
According to the Carbon Trust, smart meters save money. Smart metering trials showed that smart meters combined with consumption data and energy-saving management can deliver average savings of 12% a year.
Regular feedback on energy consumption data influences consumer behaviour and smart meter displays do this very effectively.
With continually rising energy costs an energy management program is essential. Increasing numbers of consumers and business customers will now only buy from, or invest in, companies with environmentally friendly policies and production methods.
Climate change is emerging as a major challenge for global society. We are all affected and all can help tackle it.