Energy Efficiency is possible – a concrete example
By Sergio Ferreira / Published on Fri, 2007-04-27 09:40Further reading
Stephen Drew is the steering engine behind a successful project to improve the energy efficiency in Fonterra, a large industrial corporate in New Zealand. In a country that is well down in the OECD country rankings for energy efficiency, Stephen and his team have shown that things can be done and with short resources.
In his paper ‘Less talking and more walking down the energy efficiency road – the journey has begun’, Stephen drives us through the energy efficiency road, explaining the approach and the key for success – motivation.
The strategy is simple but effective. People get on and just do it. In analogy with sports he used these four human elements of leadership, discipline, training and team-work to describe how New Zealand needs to lift the game and learn to become a winner in energy efficiency.
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Retro Commisioning
By Jim Bell / Published on Tue, 2007-05-08 2:03It is fairly well documented by Texas A&M, Gridlogix, Machine2Enterprise and others that as much as 20% of the energy used in comercial buildings is relted to waste associate with misconfigured building control systems. Across the united states that is a big number. So while we think about new technologies, it would be great if people started focusing on real near term solutions, like recommisioning, to achieve more immediate savings.
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Retro Commisioning
By Alex Yartey / Published on Tue, 2007-05-08 17:38 This is quite interesting to me from where I am coming from, Ghana. We only read about buildings achieving energy savings and receiving awards. I have always thought it is perfect out there. We also have to look more into energy management equipments like UPS etc. Some I learnt waste about 30% of energy not forgetting the energy consumed to cool down these units when used on a large scale. Alex Nii Ofori YarteyReply