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Energy Management Pathfinding: Understanding Manufacturers' Ability and Desire to Implement Energy Efficiency
Abstract
Manufacturers are scrambling for relief from today's energy expenses and price
volatility. Most industry decision-makers believe the solution is to seek the lowest available
energy prices. Too often, managers fail to grasp the opportunities offered by energy
management, which focuses on both consumption and prices. Industry can be resistant to energy
management for a variety of reasons. Simply put, energy management has no traditional place in
the typical manufacturer's chart of organization, job descriptions, and performance
accountabilities. While technology is fundamental to energy efficiency, it is people who make it
work in an organizational context. DuPont, Frito-Lay, Unilever, and Kimberly-Clark are a few
of the forward-thinking companies that have found ways to build energy management into their
daily operations to positive effect. The Alliance to Save Energy is documenting these
companies' experiences in a series of case studies that reflect the organizational and behavioral
aspects of corporate-wide energy management. Case studies show that energy management
motives and approaches are somewhat varied-there is no “one size fits all” solution. The
Alliance offers a typology of industrial energy management strategies to illustrate the range of
opportunities available to industry. Ultimately, it is a manufacturer's organizational character
that determines its ability to manage energy consumption. A checklist included in this paper
allows the reader to diagnose a manufacturer's aptitude for undertaking various energy
management strategies.
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Citation
Russell, C. (2005). Energy Management Pathfinding: Understanding Manufacturers' Ability and Desire to Implement Energy Efficiency. Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu); Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu). Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /5609.