Implementation of the Target Management and Introduction of the Emissions Trading System
- There is a need for decision-making, including management efforts for cost reduction, when an implementation plan is made.
- It is intended to lower the GHG and energy reduction costs of a company through “target negotiation abilities” and “the capability to collect, analyze, and evaluate feasible reduction technologies.”
- It is necessary to have the capability to predict energy consumption precisely according to the intended business plan, analyze the capability to predict GHG emissions and basic units, set up an acceptable range of emission allowance, and persuade stakeholders at the time of target negotiation.
An Increase in Corporate Energy Management
- It is required to provide all departments, not only the Energy Department, with energy information useful to identify rapid and accurate energy reduction technologies through energy business system facilities so that activities for the identification of reduction technologies can be facilitated for all employees as the enterprise activity, not the restricted work of the Energy Department.
- It is expected that energy cost reduction pressure will continuously be increased to strengthen cost competitiveness due to an increase in energy and manufacturing costs.
- It is possible to reduce energy by 10% to 30% through systematic monitoring management (see Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM), 2010, p. 6).
Poor Energy Management of Small- and Medium-Sized Companies
- The energy cost forms a high part of the production cost compared to large companies in small- and medium-sized companies. They have unsystematic energy management in a poor energy business structure. Accordingly, they carry out individual and fragmented energy management.
- It is difficult to have effective reduction effects under individual and fragmented management. It is necessary to introduce an energy business management system suitable for the level and condition of the relevant company.
- Small- and medium-sized companies experience difficulty in securing and developing professional staffs along with poor investment capabilities. Therefore, it is essential to present methods to innovate the process across the whole energy management work and improve the level of management in order to strengthen their continuous energy business management capabilities in the mid- and long terms.
Establish the infrastructures of the energy management system, aiming at efficient energy use to secure energy management capability and carry forward energy conservation in situations in which external factors (an increase in energy consumption and reports on greenhouse gas energy consumption) increasingly influence energy consumption.
· External Factor ·
(A quantitative example) Saving 147,000 kWh and the identification of extra savings
(A qualitative example) Obtaining energy management capability (a review of operating parameters and the preparation of performance indicators)
Establishment and Management of Energy Management System Infrastructures
Composition
Energy Performance Management (GHG Inventory)
Organize the system connected with a DB server, an EnMS server, the production management data-connected system, the user manual, and others to connect hardware and software.
DB Server
- Collect data about energy generation facilities.
- Send the relevant data to a collection server.
- Consumption-based Oracle DB and WinNT
EnMS
Server
- Manage the factory energy business.
- Manage energy targets.
- Manage CO2 inventory.
Production Management
- Measure energy consumption in the production process.
- Identify energy consumption per price.
- Analyze the accurate price by factory.
USER
- Monitor the system.
- Manage energy-related facilities.
- Establish policies based on statistical information.
Energy Performance Management (GHG Inventory)
: A system to manage GHG emissions and energy consumption by GHG emission source (facility and energy source)
Standard Information
- Information about workplaces, organizations, energy sources, and codes
- Information about emission factors (fuel and product) and emission activities
- Information about products and raw materials
- Information about reduction technologies
Performance Management
- Information about facilities and detailed facilities
- Fuel consumption management by detailed facility and energy source -> The calculation of GHG emissions and energy consumption
- Product output management, and information about unit energy prices and sales
- Other energy performance managements
Analysis Status
- The analysis status of consumption by workplace, organization, and facility (monthly and annually)
- The status of GHG emission and energy consumption by workplace, organization, and facility (monthly and annually)
- The analysis status of fuel, GHGs, and energy by major facility
- The status of basic unit analysis by workplace, facility (process), and energy source
- An analysis of fuel, GHGs, and energy trends by workplace and facility compared to the sales and output
Target Management
Measuring Instrument Monitoring and Energy Business Information
Analytical Management of Energy Efficiency (Optimization)
Target Management (Implementation Plan Management)
: Establish an implementation plan for companies subject to target management according to a negotiation with the government, and analyze the resultant performance management.
Target Management
- Standard emission control
- Implementation plan management by workplace and organization
- Reduction plan management by workplace, organization, and facility
- Activity data monitoring management and facility operation planning management
- Product plan management
- Other energy performance managements
Reduction and Emission Prediction
- Reduction of technical information management
- Reduction of plan and performance management
- Emission prediction factor setting management
- Emission prediction (compared to the planned amount and the growth rate)
Analysis/Status
- The status of performance by workforce and facility compared to the goal (GHGs and energy; monthly and annually)
- The status of performance compared to a reduction goal (monthly and annually)
- The status of reduction scenarios
- The status of emission prediction (GHGs and energy)
- Reports (statements, implementation plans, implementation performance) -> Converted into an Excel file
Measuring Instrument Monitoring and Energy Business Information
: Establish measurement infrastructures to manage the consumption status of major energy sources, such as power, gas, compressed gas, and steam, so that energy and GHGs can efficiently be managed through the energy business management system. Provide data necessary to analyze the energy efficiency of a facility.
Measuring Instrument Communication
- Manage measuring instrument information.
- Collect data by measuring instrument (energy source) through regular communication.
- Collect the cumulative consumption of electricity and LNG. However, collect the steam flow rate to calculate steam consumption separately.
- Transmit data to an EnMS server.
Monitoring
- Monitor data collected by facility (process), measuring instrument, and energy source (hourly and daily).
- Display the conditions of a measuring instrument.
- Notify the person in charge of the relevant fact with an alarm when there is a problem with a measuring instrument or when energy is excessively used.
- Manage power peaks.
Analysis/Status
- Monitor data collected by facility (process), measuring instrument, and energy source (daily, monthly, and annually).
- State the status of energy consumption according to the schematic diagram of a measuring instrument (tree and map).
- Analyze cost trends by energy source and facility.
- Analyze the basic unit according to the corporate subdivided basic unit standards.
- Analyze energy efficiency compared to production and sales.
- Interlock with other systems such as ERP and MES.
Analytical Management of Energy Efficiency (Optimization)
: Collect consumption by energy source for facilities installed in the field, such as buildings and factories, and provide analytical data about energy consumption.
Energy Efficiency Management
- Analyze energy flow, efficiency, and loss based on an energy map.
- Analyze energy efficiency and loss by process based on real-time or corresponding energy consumption data.
- Generate energy demand prediction information to provide efficient energy usage information based on basic units (facility and energy source) and production plans.
Energy Analytical Management
- Manage energy information, such as energy consumption, cost, and quality by organization, as well as facilities.
- Analyze performance trends based on the standards for an energy consumption plan established by production process and organization (performance compared to the plan).
- Manage a trend of unit prices by energy source to analyze costs.
Energy Efficiency Simulation
- Manage standard factors such as facility capacity, operating time (by time zone), product input by facility, production time and breaks by product, power peaks, and real-time energy consumption by facility.
- Control and manage resources through peak management. (Prioritize major facilities.)
- Predict the energy consumption to be used compared to the plan and the power peak.
- Manage facility efficiency through basic factors such as operating time by facility and energy consumption.
- Comparatively analyze energy efficiency by facility, and carry out a simulation to predict an energy consumption trend.