This book will reveal cost reductions and how to slash your energy costs without having to invest a lot of money. You don’t need to spend a lot to save a lot! The three pillars of cost reduction are 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 exceptional and unique text are business owners, CFOs, plant managers, plant engineers, and energy managers. You will learn how to distill what cost savings are possible and how you can quickly accomplish those savings from what you already know, and you can expect to walk away at the end of this book with confidence and a realistic plan of action for reducing your costs.
This book will reveal cost reductions and how to slash your energy costs without having to invest a lot of money. You don’t need to spend a lot to save a lot!
Part 1: What's in this for you?
1. How to lower your costs fast
2. Chief
financial officers' quick start guide to energy savings
3. Three case studies
can you really save millions? Part 2: Tools for demand and cost reduction
4. Demand response/interruptible service
5. Thoroughly understand your
relative risk to win with rate chagnes and interruptible opportunities
6.
Real-time pricing
7. Coincident peak costs
8. Solar power
9. Energy
management systems Part 3: Free money
10. Sales tax
11. Billing line items
you can remove
12. Combining meters Part 4: How to get things done with your
utility
13. Dealing with your utility
14. Appoint a champion and get things
done
15. Long-term monitoring and acting on your data
16. Summary and plan
going forward
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.
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