ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the energy manager and production, maintenance and sales teams that indicate that additional savings could be made from the energy reduction opportunity. A common failure during the financial appraisal is omitting other benefits and costs associated with the energy reduction opportunity. Moving beyond quick wins, many energy reduction opportunities identified may also have non-energy related business benefits, be technically more complex, or incur higher business risks. Quick wins are relatively simple and straightforward to identify and form no cost, and/or low cost, opportunities to start an energy reduction programme, and generate cost benefits for the bottom line, internal marketing and promotion on energy management work. Apart from energy reduction, consultants and contractors can offer very little quantitative input on other business benefits and business risks. A detailed assessment is normally commissioned to study any opportunity in greater detail. The chapter examines interaction between the energy systems and other systems, or may involve more sophisticated computing techniques.
