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BEE organises awareness training programmes for energy managers

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The Energy Conservation Act 2001 has come into force with effect from March 1, 2002. The act has been promulgated with a view to provide the necessary thrust to energy conservation. Energy managers occupy an important position in any organisation and are the focal point of all activities pertaining to energy management in the organisation. They will have certain mandatory duties and responsibilities that will be prescribed in the regulation with the act. Taking into consideration the important role that an energy manager has to play in reducing energy consumption, it has been decided that the necessary qualification would be to pass a national level examination. At present there is limited awareness in the industry about importance of energy management, the EC Act, roles and responsibilities of energy managers, the requirement of energy audits, information and data to be collected and reported to the government. The BEE is organising awareness training programmes for the benefit of the industry to build up awareness on these aspects.

The objectives of the training programmes include:

• Creation of awareness on the various aspects of EC Act.
• Discussing the duties and responsibilities of energy managers as per the Act.
• Enlightening participants about the steps in achieving energy manager certification.
• Making industries understand the benefits of implementing the Act.
• Highlighting various energy conservation options in industrial energy systems, equipments and appliances.
• Providing information on best practices in energy conservation; industry energy accounting system; monitoring, evaluation and review of energy consumption; energy audits and its benefits; standardisation of data formats.

Implementation

To make industries aware of the new regulations and to prepare them to meet the requirements of the act, BEE, in coordination with National Productivity Council (NPC), is organising training programmes in major metropolitan cities.

The course content includes:

• Introduction to the provision of Energy Conservation Act 2001.
• Role and responsibilities of energy managers in industry and in commercial buildings.
• Energy management structure in organisations.
• Energy manager and energy auditor as a winning team
• Annual mandatory reporting of performance data by energy manager under EC Act
• Energy manager certification procedure.
• Presentation of the training material to prepare candidates for certification examination
• Overview of course material to prepare candidates for certification examination.
• Best practices on energy conservation in industry.
• Combustion system (boilers, furnaces) how to reduce fuel cost without investing
• BEE - Codes to support contractual arrangement between energy auditors and the firm
• Energy saving opportunities pumps and fan systems
• Energy saving opportunities in compressors: HVAC and refrigeration systems and cooling tower
• Instrumentation for energy auditing
• Financial analysis for energy managers
• Setting up firm’s accounting system
• The online interactive learning centre of BEE i.e. energymanagertraining.com
• Common data reporting systems and problems.