A Methodology for Improving Company Wide Energy Efficiency

The speaker this afternoon was Lee Stogner and this session had approximately 30 attendees.

It was interesting to hear that Lee’s interest started by hearing from a friend about building a home using 2x6’s. This allows more room for energy efficient products between studs. He showed us the results from a survey by Price Waterhouse Cooper shows oil prices as top barrier and stated that energy costs affect the bottom line of companies.

Lee posed the question, “What single device consumes the most energy in the US?” The answer was motors consume 23% of all electricity consumed, most of any device.

Lee went on to present the five topics to focus on which is listed below:

1. Improving Energy Management
2. Improved System Operations
3. Improved Asset Management
4. Workflow Improvements through Lean Six Sigma
5. Engineered Capital Projects

Lee summed up the talk by presenting the Methodology for Improving Company Wide Energy Efficiency which includes the following four steps:

1. Energy Assessment
2. Maintenance Improvement Program
3. Systems Optimization/Real Time Monitoring Program
4. ERP/Lean Six Sigma across the Supply Chain

Lee finished by answering questions and asked the attendees and you, the readers, to comment on and discuss the presented Methodology and topic.

He did a great job in give a big picture view into energy efficiency at the company level that we can all implement and relate to.