The Energy Awareness Program (EAP) shall change the way people at a company think about energy and helps to permanently integrate that change into the company’s culture. By raising the energy awareness, EAP teaches employees to understand how their daily decisions impact energy use. As a result, companies:

see the direct impact of EAP on their bottom line;
increase their competitive role in the global market
reduce their impact on the environment

Organizational Structure:
Energy management starts with organizational focus and top management commitment. The setup of an energy policy, is a primary document that guides the organization through a longer range of goals. EAP follows with a facilitated energy assessment that supports management in understanding baseline data, setting objectives and prioritizing resources to achieve them .

People:
The energy awareness of the people throughout the organization will increase by building and deepening employee’s knowledge skills, and abilities. EAP makes the connection between energy management and financial returns for the organization.

Manufacturing systems:
The process design and control is mainly responsible for the level of energy consumption. On top of that the continuous improvement cycle will add also changes to the behavior of the energy consumption of the manufacturing facility. EAP will help to embed energy as a key resource in daily operations. Maintenance and capital expenditure will be influenced by this information directly.

Installation and using sub-metering of the main utilities needed, will help integrate energy use and cost overviews into manufacturing operations. The KPI’s presented on a daily basis, makes it possible to benchmark production facilities. ”You can manage what you measure”.

Improve:
A continuous improvement feedback loop, ensures the results are embedded in the organization. It will allow companies to change the program to realize the optimum sustainable energy management results.

The solution:
QpoT can supply the customer with the total range from project definition to the implementation of an EAP system parallel with the delivering of “smart sensor” tools for metering and data analysis. The goal of the solutions of QpoT is to achieve improvements on the energy efficiency that will be earned back with a payback time of <2 years.