Frequenty Asked Questions (FAQs) on Energy Saving through an ESCO

 

What does an Energy Service Company (ESCO) do?

The ESCO concept, which originated in the USA during the oil shock of 1970’s, has gained momentum worldwide in the last three decades. And as one of India’s first ESCOs, we at SSAEL provide a wide range of Energy Management Services to result in tangible energy savings, while minimising your risk and capital outlay.

We help you identify process and equipment pitfalls, which escalate your energy bills. We recommend the means to bring them down. We facilitate capital funding wherever required. We focus on areas for effecting and monitoring the change. And we serve as an able partner in your strategic transformation into an Energy-friendly and Eco-friendly enterprise! All to help you manage energy better!

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Who is Energy Management good for ?

Although good energy practises should be followed by everyone of us, especially in an energy deficit country like India, to benefit most from professional services in energy management, you should ideally

  • Be a HT consumer.

  • Have a contracted demand of 500 KVA and above.

  • Use 100MT/month of coal or equivalent furnace oil etc.

  • Have an energy bill (power+fuel) in excess of Rs. 4 lakhs per month.

  • Be in any of these industries - for which proven solutions have been implemented; Hotels, Hospitals, Cement, Paper, Aluminium, Iran & Steel, Textiles, Chemicals, Petrochemicals, Fertilizers

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How is Energy Management by an Esco different from Energy Auditing ?

Energy Auditing is the older, limited, but more widely known version of our kind of service. It entails only a survey of your energy related operations followed by a report of the shortcomings

Energy Management goes many steps further with baseline studies and performance related contract. Not only does it help you meet statutory requirements, it provides you the outline for action as well, which we help you implement - to your advantage!

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What will SSAEL do in my company ?

As an ESCO, we start with a 'Baseline Study'. Conceptually similar to energy auditing, this study lays the base for our construction revamp of your contracted damand

  • Demand Side Management (DSM) to optimise your contracted demand

  • Study of past data, trends and wasteful practises

  • Comparative studies to substantiate data (e.g., to determine whether you equipment is optimal for your energy needs)

  • Fixing relationships between operation and consumption and therefore arriving at "Energy per Unit Production" (existing and desired energy norms; benchmarking)

  • Identifying systemic corrections for energy devices to delivery to full capacity.

The findings of baseline studies alone, if routinely implemented, can effect energy saving of around 5% to 10%

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What next ?

  • To implement the recommendations of the baseline study becomes imperative to:

  • Form a inter - disciplinary Energy Management Team

  • Define energy conservation targets based on an implementation strategy that keeps in view slack periods

  • Re - orient procedures to bring about organizational change insofar as energy utilization prectises are concerned

  • Define optimum load capacities and re - design systems

  • Implement all low cost/no cost measures

  • Measurement and verification of savings achieved

Monitoring & targeting through a systematic approach as above - torgether with marginal investment - can yield 10 - 15% energy saving!

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And what is performance Contracting ?

Performance Contracting as offered by us includes monitoring & targeting, and :

  • Proposing techno-economically feasible soultions, with payback calculations, and a bankable proposal for investment

  • Sourcing energy machinery and facilitating finance for the purchase

  • Purchasing and installing equipment to save time and costs

  • Integrating design changes with equipment to effect complete transition to energy efficient operations

So when we are with you from concept to reglization of saving, The Performance Contract works to your advantage-where you pay from what you save! And our services are oriented to help you maximise your saving!

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Shri Shakti Alternative Energy Ltd

Venus Plaza, Begumpet
Hyderabad. 500016
Tel:+91-40-790 7979, 790 5353
Fax:+91-40-790 8989
E-mail:ssael@shrishakti.com
C - 43, Neeti Bagh
New Delhi. 110049
Tel:+91-11-651 9006,651 9007
Fax:+91-11-686 6667

E-mail:ssael@del2.vsnl.net.in

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