Energy Management can mean a variety of things to different types of energy users or even to energy producers. Obviously, in the case of energy producers (i.e. utilities), energy management is a matter of managing energy generation and energy supply, and efficiently meet the demands of the energy users who are their customers. For energy users, Energy Management can be described as the sum of measures planned and carried out to achieve the objective of using the minimum possible energy while the comfort levels (in offices or dwellings) and the production
rates (in factories) are maintained. Saving energy can be extremely easy if we just shut things down, but that is impractical. The important thing to remember about energy management is that comfort and production levels remain somewhat the same as before any energy was conserved.
To make an efficient use of the energy, actions can be focused on a variety of different areas and approaches including energy conservation, energy recovery, and energy substitution.
Energy Conservation
Efforts that are made to reduce energy consumption through the economy, elimination of waste, or more rational use.
Energy Recovery
The reuse of a byproduct of one system for use as input energy for another system. An example of this is taking the waste heat generated from a manufacturing process and using it for another purpose such as heating water.
Energy Substitution
The substitution of one energy source or fuel type for a more economical or less polluting energy source or fuel type.
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