Archives: 2010 February
Monitoring and Verification: Verifying your Energy Savings
February 25th, 2010, No Comments
By: Peter Rowles
How do you measure and verify something you can’t see? The task of convincing today’s skeptics that your actions have created energy use and cost savings can be a daunting one. Hopefully this article will shed some light on this topic.
Verifying savings is important for an organization for many valid reasons. In some [...]
Energy Expenditure and Consumption Expressed as a Function of Key Performance Indicators
February 22nd, 2010, 5 Comments
By: Pat Ferguson
In today’s difficult market environment business decisions are being weighed more carefully than ever. Typical project valuation indicators such as ROI and simple payback times are no longer good enough. Savings from energy efficiency projects can be lost in the fog of obfuscating external factors. The focus is now on reducing carbon footprints [...]
Monitoring and Targeting — How to Improve Your Game
February 17th, 2010, No Comments
By: Peter Rowles
You can’t manage what you don’t measure. This is the nuts and bolts of the continuous improvement energy management model. In energy management circles it is referred to as Monitoring & Targeting (M&T). Managing energy without an M&T program is like playing golf without a scorecard.
M&T involves the monitoring and analysis of energy [...]
Climate Change may Trigger Disclosure: A Review of the Securities and Exchange Commissions’ Interpretive Guidance towards Climate Change
February 12th, 2010, No Comments
By: Tiffany Richmond
In the past several years the creation of new international, federal, and state regulations clearly indicate that government agencies are addressing concerns regarding the effects of greenhouse gas emissions.
Demonstrated by measures, such as, the European Union Emissions Trading System, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s policy for large emitters to collect and report greenhouse [...]
Demand Response and Demand Side Management What’s the Difference?
February 10th, 2010, No Comments
By: Peter Rowles
Demand Response and Demand Side Management are terms used by electric utilities to describe programs developed to influence the electricity usage patterns of customers. Many people get confused by these two terms. However, don’t be concerned. Tom Peters, co-author of the best selling business book “in Search of Excellence” says “If you’re not [...]
Save Energy Using Distributed and Renewable Energy Sources
February 4th, 2010, 1 Comment
By: Peter Rowles
To steal a quote from the famous playwright William Shakespeare, “To be (a power generator) or not to be (a power generator) – that is the question.”
In my early career, I had some success with selling and installing advanced energy systems such as industrial heat recovery heat pumps, condensing heat exchangers, thermal storage [...]
Highlights from Executive Research Forum: Holistic Carbon Management
February 2nd, 2010, No Comments
Holistic Carbon Management: Critical Issues for Strategic Finance
Canadian Financial Executive Research Foundation (CFERF) and Energy Advantage have partnered on a research study to examine the strategic issues faced by Canadian organizations emerging from the various North American carbon management regulatory activities underway today. This study is based on gaining feedback from Chief Financial Officers [...]
Development & Implementation of the Energy Management Program
February 1st, 2010, No Comments
By: Peter Rowles
“Make it so Number One”, the famous words of John Luc Picard should be an inspiration to Energy Managers. Once you’ve obtained senior level approval to precede with your energy management plans, it is time to make it happen.
There are many ways to do this. Many organizations have set rules and policies concerning [...]
