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Energy Management Mindset Plan – Do – Check & Act

Stacey Isaac Berahzer

Glenn Barnes

March 15, 2012

Murfreesboro, TN

Session Outline

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• Overview of Industry

Energy Use

• Developing an

energy management

mindset

• Plan Do Check

& Act

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OVERVIEW OF INDUSTRY

ENERGY USE

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How MUCH Energy?

NATIONALLY

• “Water and wastewater utility energy

consumption is generally on the order of

30-60% of a city’s energy bill”

• Utilities spend about $4 billion annually on

energy costs

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How MUCH Energy?

• “Energy represents the largest controllable

cost of providing water or wastewater

services to the public”

– 6,583 municipal treatment plants in the US

– Energy represents 25-30% of total plant O&M

– “In audits of 150 facilities…identified energy

savings of over 30%...” K. Moraff, EPA Region

1 (Boston), Oct. 2011

Four Ways to Use Less

Electricity in the Production of Water

• Use energy more efficiently

• Use (or re-use) water more efficiently

• Install renewables and other innovative

green solutions

• Lose less water in the distribution system

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How Utilities are Saving Energy

• Reduce demand during periods of peak electricity rates

• Use automation

– Continuously monitoring Dissolved Oxygen probe

• Routine pump maintenance

• Reduction in voltage imbalance

Source: WATERGY: Energy and Water Efficiency in Municipal Water Supply and

Wastewater Treatment Cost-Effective Savings of Water and Energy

How Utilities are Producing Energy

• Wastewater plants - biogas options

– Biogas produced by anaerobic digestion

can be captured and used to generate

electricity and heat

Source: Evaluation of Energy Conservation Measures for Wastewater

Treatment Facilities September 2010, EPA 832-R-10-005

GETTING INTO THE ENERGY

MANAGEMENT MINDSET

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Energy Conservation

Have You ALREADY Started?

• Together, let’s make a list of the energy

projects you have already started

– Policies

– SOPs

– Trainings

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Do you have an “Energy Team?”

Yes

No

50%50%1. Yes

2. No

Pulling Together a Team

• Appoint team members

• Solicit Volunteers

• Use existing/related team

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In which of the following programs is

your utility participating?

Energ

y Star

Ass

et Manage

me...

ISO 1

4001

ANSI

/MSE

2000:..

.

Portf

olio M

ana...

36%

55%

27%

0%0%

1. Energy Star

2. Asset Management

3. ISO 14001

4. ANSI/MSE 2000: A

management

systems for Energy

5. Portfolio Manager

ENERGY MANAGEMENT

STRATEGY:

PLAN DO CHECK & ACT

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Plan

Do

Check

Act

• Getting Ready

• Assessing Current

Energy Baseline Status

• Establishing an energy

Vision/Policies for

Improvement

• Identifying Energy

Objectives and Targets

• Implementing

Energy

Improvement

Programs and

Building a

Management

System to

Support Them

• Monitoring and

Measuring Your Energy

Improvement

Management Programs

• Maintaining Your Energy

Improvement Programs

Plan

I. Getting Ready

II. Assessing Current Energy Baseline

Status

III. Establishing an Energy Vision and

Priorities for Improvement

IV.Identifying Energy Objectives

and Targets

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Getting Ready

1. Establish your utility’s energy improvement goals

2. Secure and maintain management commitment, involvement, and visibility

3. Choose an energy “fenceline”

4. Establish energy improvement program leadership

5. Secure & maintain employee buy-in

6. Communicate results

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Assessing Current Energy Baseline

Status

1. Benchmark energy efficiency information

2. Conduct an energy assessment or

baseline audit

3. Review legal and other requirements and

establish a compliance baseline

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Establishing an Energy Vision and

Priorities for Improvement

1. Develop an energy policy

2. Identify activities and operations that

consume energy

3. Prioritize activities/operations and

potential energy improvement

efforts

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Identifying Energy

Objectives and Targets

1. Establish energy objectives and targets

2. Define performance indicators

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Implementing Energy Improvement

Programs and Building a Management

System to Support Them

1. Develop action plans to implement

energy improvements

2. Develop management system ‘operating

controls’ to support energy improvements

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Check & Act

I. Monitoring and Measuring Your Energy

Improvement Management Programs

II. Maintaining Your Energy Improvement

Programs

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Monitoring and Measuring Your Energy

Improvement Management Programs

1. Review what you currently monitor and measure for energy

2. Determine what else you need to monitor and measure for your priority energy improvement operations

3. Develop a plan for maintaining the efficiency of energy equipment

4. Review the progress of your energy targets

5. Implement actions to adjust or correct when you are not progressing toward your energy goals

6. Monitor/reassess compliance status

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Maintaining Your Energy

Improvement Programs

1. Continue to align energy goals with

business/operational goals

2. Apply lessons learned

3. Expand involvement of management and

staff

4. Communicate success

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Stacey Isaac Berahzer

Glenn Barnes

Senior Project Directors

Environmental Finance Center

berahzer@unc.edu; glennbarnes@sog.unc.edu

www.efc.unc.edu

Questions?