Tag: energy baseline
You Can’t Manage What You Don’t Measure
April 6th, 2010, No Comments
Successful and effective business and public-sector leaders have long understood the meaning of the old adage “you can’t manage what you don’t measure”.
This saying still holds in the rapidly developing discipline of total energy and environmental management. Many organizations are now struggling to elevate the procurement and utilization of energy to an enterprise level as [...]
Historical Energy Data and Accuracy of Analysis and Projections
March 29th, 2010, 2 Comments
By: Hugo Vargas
A frequent question constantly arises around the accuracy of energy data estimations and the quality, in terms of size and completeness, of the data set that is used to create an energy baseline. For those of you who don’t know what an energy baseline is, it is a detailed summary of your energy [...]
Achieving Corporate Commitment for Energy Management
December 16th, 2009, 1 Comment
By: Peter Rowles
Corporate commitment is the key ingredient to a successful energy management program. It is not enough to just implement some energy efficiency projects, most organizations will need to dramatically change their culture in order to achieve and sustain meaningful results. This requires commitment. A wise old engineer once described to me the difference [...]
