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This book will reveal cost reductions and how to slash your energy costs without investing big money. The three pillars of costs reduction will discussed: Assembling your options and analyzing your risk; developing options with your utility; and cutting out obvious waste in your operation. Those who will benefit from this excellent text are business owners, CFOs, plant managers, plant engineers, and energy managers. You will learn how to distill what savings are possible and how you can quickly accomplish those savings from what you already know and can expect to walk away at the end of this book with confidence and a realistic plan of action for reducing your costs.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Is this book for you?
- Part I—What’s in This for You?
- Chapter 1 How to Lower Your Costs Fast
- The Main Problem
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter 2 Three Case Studies—Can You Really Save Millions?
- Case 1: Multiple large pumps in Texas
- Case 2: Paper mill in South Carolina
- Case 3: Small operation that saved 40%
- The Bad Thing about Case Studies
- What Have We Learned from the Case Studies?
- Chapter Summary
- PART II—Tools for Demand and Cost Reduction
- Chapter 3 Demand Response/Interruptible Service
- The Origins of Interruptibility
- Details You Need to Know
- Why Utilities Have Interruptible Service
- Also, You Need to Meet the I.S. Program Manager
- An Example of Interruptible Service That Works
- Economic Curtailments
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter 4 Thoroughly Understand Your Relative Risk to Win with Interruptible Opportunities
- In Deregulated Power Markets, Things Work Like This
- So, What Options Are Available to Reduce Costs?
- Three Keys to Understanding Bills
- Why Would a Utility Care When You Use Your Energy?
- Understanding How Your Utility Buys Power
- Reliability Is in The Eye of The Beholder
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter 5 Real Time Pricing (RTP)
- More on Real-time Pricing
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter 6 Coincident Peak Costs
- What Is It?
- How It Works
- Why Coincident Peak Programs Can Be So Powerful for You
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter 7 Solar Power
- What Does It All Mean for Manufacturing Plants?
- What is Solar Exactly, and How Does It Work?
- Solar Roof from Tesla
- Net Metering and Renewable Energy Certificates
- How to Compare Your Solar Storage Options
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter 8 Energy Management Systems
- Components of an Energy Management System (EMS)
- Sources of Funding for Energy Projects
- Chapter Summary
- PART III—Free Money
- Chapter 9 Sales Tax
- Sales Tax Exemptions
- Which Businesses Are Exempt and Why?
- Refunds for Overpayment
- States Which Allow Manufacturers to Exempt Sales Tax on Utility Bills
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter 10 Billing Line Items You Can Remove
- Ratcheted Demand Charges
- Systems Rentals/Facilities Costs
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter 11 Combining Meters
- Why So Many Meters?
- Options You May Have for Meter Combination
- Quick Primer on Power Delivery— Centralized Power Generation
- Chapter Summary
- PART IV—How to Get Things Done with Your Utility
- Chapter 12 Dealing with Your Utility
- How a Utility Works
- How to Work with a Utility Most Effectively
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter 13 Appoint a Champion and Get Things Done
- Why People Have Trouble Implementing Things
- Who Should You Choose to Be Your Champion?
- Projects Managed the Navy SEAL Way
- The True Value of Third-party Oversight
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter 14 Long-term Monitoring and Acting on Your Data
- How Do You Accomplish Big Things?
- Action Plans
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter 15 Summary and Plan Going Forward
- The Challenges Ahead
- Key Points of the New Approach
- Ancillary Benefits of Energy Saving
- Final Thoughts
- Addendum
- How Having DSIRE Can Save You a Lot of Money
- Summary
- Mindset
- Five Energy Trends
- Inertia of the Status Quo
- CO2 Science and the Battle to Save the Planet
- Why Excess CO2 Makes Temperatures Rise
- Is Energy Creation the Only Cause of Atmospheric CO2?
- What Happens If We Do Nothing?
- Global Emissions by Economic Sector
- Countries that Contribute to CO2 Emissions
- What Can We Do About It?
- Index
Biography
Roger Brown is a graduate of Georgia Tech’s H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. His articles on cost reduction and the future of energy have appeared in Paper 360, the journal of the pulp and paper industry. He has directed energy cost optimization projects for clients in the United States and Canada for the past 20 years. His passions include diving with sharks and flying light aircraft.
Author: Roger Brown
e-ISBN: 9788770222600