Factors affecting the implementation rates of energy and productivity recommendations in small and medium sized companies

Alhourani, Farouq; Saxena, Umesh

doi:10.1016/j.jmsy.2009.04.001

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“…Also, the wide variety of small commercial building types make it difficult to develop approaches that are relevant across the entire segment. Smaller buildings may be more sensitive to the payback period of upgrades: a study of small to medium enterprises in manufacturing reported that energy efficiency measures had an implementation rate of 40% overall, and 64% for measures with a payback period of one year or less (implementation rate in this study is the number of identified 3 measures that were actually installed in the facilities) (Alhourani and Saxena 2009). …”

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Unlocking Energy Efficiency in Small Commercial Buildings through Mechanical Contractors

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While buildings smaller than 4,645 square meters account for nearly half of the energy used in U.S. commercial buildings, energy efficiency programs to date have primarily focused on larger buildings. Stakeholder interviews conducted during a scoping study by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) indicated interest in energy efficiency from the small commercial building sector, provided solutions are simple and low-cost. To address this need, an Energy Management Package (EMP) was developed to deliver energy management to small commercial buildings via Heating Ventilating and Air Conditioning (HVAC) contractors, since they already serve these clients and the transaction cost to market would be reduced. This energy management approach is unique from, but often complementary to, conventional quality maintenance or retrofit-focused programs targeting the small commercial segment. This paper presents an overview of the EMP, the business model to deliver it, and preliminary demonstration findings 2 from a pilot use of the EMP. Results from the pilot validated that contractors could deliver the EMP in 4-8 hours per building per year, and that energy savings of 3%-5% are feasible through this approach.

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“…The analysis is performed for 12 facilities selected from the industries classified to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), meeting criteria described in [11]. Data are collected manually through the plant energy audits carried out by the author with the Industrial Assessment Center`s experts at the University of Michigan.…”

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An Environmental Sustainability Assessment of Energy Efficiency for Production Systems

Kluczek¹

2018

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Measuring energy has been widely considered as one of the most cost-effective ways to improve energy efficiency leading to the energy sustainability by decreasing impact on the environment. The literature on energy efficiency and sustainability assessment methods, applied on the industrial processes is still under development. With regard to the production systems, activities mainly address separate improvement measures for energy savings, but there is no methodology for assessing the integrated effects from a combined analysis of energy, pollutions, and benefits so far. The aim of the paper is to provide a new look at an environmental sustainability assessment of energy-efficiency in production systems combining LCA-based methods energy efficiency optimization technique, and Data Envelopment Analysis. The results show mitigation of energy impact on the environmental bringing net benefits in nine production systems. It might contribute how the application of the assessment method can contribute towards developing the environmental sustainability performance measure within them.

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“…These efforts target the significant potentials of energy conservation, as identified e.g. in [2,3], as well as the possible impact the manufacturing industry could exert on the balancing energy market, as quantified by Paulus and Borggrefe [4] for the example of Germany. The study by Kayo and Suzuki [5] shows that an integrated approach of energy management leads to a significantly higher savings potential.…”

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Hybrid Building Performance Simulation Models for Industrial Energy Efficiency Applications

Smolek¹,

Leobner²,

Gourlis³

et al. 2018

J. sustain. dev. energy water environ. syst.

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In the challenge of achieving environmental sustainability, industrial production plants, as large contributors to the overall energy demand of a country, are prime candidates for applying energy efficiency measures. A modelling approach using cubes is used to decompose a production facility into manageable modules. All aspects of the facility are considered, classified into the building, energy system, production and logistics. This approach leads to specific challenges for building performance simulations since all parts of the facility are highly interconnected. To meet this challenge, models for the building, thermal zones, energy converters and energy grids are presented and the interfaces to the production and logistics equipment are illustrated. The advantages and limitations of the chosen approach are discussed. In an example implementation, the feasibility of the approach and models is shown. Different scenarios are simulated to highlight the models and the results are compared.

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Factors affecting the implementation rates of energy and productivity recommendations in small and medium sized companies

Cited by 28 publications

References 11 publications

Unlocking Energy Efficiency in Small Commercial Buildings through Mechanical Contractors

Unlocking Energy Efficiency in Small Commercial Buildings through Mechanical Contractors

An Environmental Sustainability Assessment of Energy Efficiency for Production Systems

Hybrid Building Performance Simulation Models for Industrial Energy Efficiency Applications

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