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Maximizing Energy Efficiency: Impetus for Change in Industrial Practices

This article discusses the high energy prices, high returns/low risk of energy efficiency, and the importance of implementing energy-efficient practices. It emphasizes the need for trained energy managers and highlights presidential directives and best practices. The article also covers specific areas of improvement like compressed air, motors, process heating, and steam, and provides the top ten recommendations for energy efficiency. It explores barriers to decision-making and showcases success stories in energy efficiency implementation.

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Maximizing Energy Efficiency: Impetus for Change in Industrial Practices

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  1. Impetusfor Change • High Energy Prices • High Returns / Low Risk • ROI and Payback • EPAct - requires that Federal agencies establish and maintain a program to ensure that "facility energy managers are trained energy managers.“ • Presidential Directives

  2. Best Practices • Compressed Air • Motors • Process Heating • Steam • Textbook engineering problems related to system design, maintenance, or operation.

  3. Industrial Assessment Centers • 11,000+ plant assessments over 20+ years • 60,000+ recommendations • Top Ten Recommendations: • 1) Utilize Higher Efficiency Lamps And/Or Ballasts • 2) Eliminate Leaks In Inert Gas And Compressed Air Lines/ Valves • 3) Use Most Efficient Type Of Electric Motors • 4) Install Compressor Air Intakes In Coolest Locations • 5) Utilize Energy-Efficient Belts And Other Improved Mechanisms • 6) Insulate Bare Equipment • 7) Use More Efficient Light Source • 8) Reduce The Pressure Of Compressed Air To The Minimum Required • 9) Install Occupancy Sensors • 10) Analyze Flue Gas For Proper Air/Fuel Ratio

  4. Summary of Findings • Most recommendations • Tried and true technologies • Nothing esoteric • < 2-year payback • >100% ROI • Yet less than half are implemented • Why?

  5. Barriers to “Go” Decision • Inability to Communicate in “Finance Speak” to Convince Financial and Other Top Decision-Makers • Private Sector - ROI, IRR, NPV • Public Sector - Life-Cycle Cost Analysis • Both - Simple Payback

  6. Barriers to “Go” Decision • Inertia • Consideration of Energy Use as Fixed Overhead • Attention on More Pressing Matters • Energy Efficiency Experts as Separate Cadre with Own Culture

  7. FEMP Success Stories • Armed Forces • California • Leadership - Initiation • Teams - Sustainment • Financing Vehicles • ESPC • UESC

  8. FEMP Success Stories • Measurement and Verification • Policy and Management Systems • Communications and Training

  9. For more information, please contact: Andy Gluck,Director of Energy Programs Telephone: (301) 572-0378 or (703) 328-2383 Email: Andrew.Gluck@orcmacro.com Macro International Inc. 11785 Beltsville Drive Calverton, MD 20705 www.customerloyaltyplus.com

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