Overview
- Demonstrates how to define, measure and balance an organization’s unique needs within an integrated energy savings approach;
- Highlights suggestions for evaluating success and proving energy savings’ financial and cultural impacts;
- Case studies based on successful projects assess techniques such as energy audits, management using monitoring and controls systems, organizational change methodologies, and ISO "continuous improvement" strategies in the context of a full program of effective energy management
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Organizations and Energy
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Front Matter
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Part III
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Front Matter
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Part IV
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book describes practical ways to understand energy and water use in organizations and then manage or control that use, thereby reducing risk and cost. The author presents a strategic framework to focus on the types of questions that should be addressed internally, Including evaluation of potential projects, planning and implementing energy projects, and evaluating results. The premise is that no modern organization can exist without energy, despite the fact that energy is also one of the mandatory inputs that receives little to no attention in most organizations. This work highlights methodologies and projects that illuminate ways in which energy management is central to an organization’s success, considering in each case the four main determinants of energy use: People, Buildings, Equipment /Processes, and the Environment. The book constitutes a complete energy savings resource for business owners, middle managers, and building and energy managers, providing options, free tools, and flexible project templates.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Ms. McCardell is President of Current-C Energy Systems, an Energy Services Company (ESCO) in the American Southwest. She provides expertise in alternative energy and energy efficiency, community and economic development, green building, financial analysis, sustainability, and strategic planning for a variety of organizations and communities. Over the past three decades, Ms. McCardell has focused on “green” efforts in the US and in other countries.. She has acted as Advisor to Afghanistan’s Ministry of Energy and Water under a USAID project, as a Community Developer on the Navajo Reservation defining and implementing energy projects, and as an advisor or consultant to hospitals, manufacturing organizations, engineering companies, nonprofits, school districts, and others. Ms. McCardell also serves as Adjunct Professor for the University of New Mexico Branch Campuses (Valencia / Gallup), teaching classes in green building, renewable energy, and energy efficiency.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Energy Effectiveness
Book Subtitle: Strategic Objectives, Energy and Water at the Heart of Enterprise
Authors: Sandra McCardell
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90255-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-90253-1Published: 29 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07975-8Published: 22 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-90255-5Published: 19 June 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 238
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 90 illustrations in colour
Topics: Renewable and Green Energy, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Innovation/Technology Management