Managing Energy From the Top Down: Connecting Industrial Energy Efficiency to Business Performance

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Introduction: Democratizing Industrial Energy......Page 10
Money to Burn: Why Manufacturing Profits Go Up in Smoke......Page 14
Energy is Wealth......Page 18
How Does Energy Use Affect Business Performance?......Page 20
Where Does Industrial Energy Go?......Page 23
How Waste Raises the \"Price\" of Energy......Page 27
\"We\'re Already as Efficient as We Can Be!\"......Page 32
Ask Not What Can You Save …But What Will You Save?......Page 34
Business Risks for Energy Consumers......Page 38
The Promise and Challenge of Life-Cycle Cost......Page 40
Embedded Energy......Page 41
Beware of \"Fugitive\" Energy......Page 43
The Competitor Within......Page 45
Why Do We Resist Energy Efficiency?......Page 48
How Did We Get Here, and How Do We Regain Control?......Page 51
About Industrial Energy Policy and Programs......Page 55
Why are Corporate Energy Policies Needed?......Page 65
Budgets Before Profits: Hidden Barriers to Energy Cost Control......Page 68
Is Management to Blame?......Page 72
How to \"Do Nothing\" About Energy Costs......Page 76
The Seven Deadly Sins of Energy Cost Control......Page 78
The Seven Steps to Successful Energy Cost Control......Page 79
Wanted: Amnesty for Yesterday\'s Energy Waste......Page 82
An Entitlement Under Fire?......Page 83
Questions and Answers About Energy Audits......Page 84
Move Forward or Fall Behind......Page 89
Energy Management: Two Philosophies, Two Outcomes......Page 91
Some Can, Some Can\'t (control energy costs)......Page 92
Do the Right Thing!......Page 96
An Engineering Project or a Management Process?......Page 98
Organizational Attributes, Strategies, and Outcomes......Page 100
Risk, Time, and Money: The Executive Energy Tool Kit......Page 109
Energy Solutions: In-house or Outsource?......Page 111
Adventures in Energy Management: Ten Case Studies......Page 113
What Does an Energy Manager Do?......Page 125
Energy Management: How Well Are You Doing?......Page 131
Energy At-Risk: Save or Buy?......Page 134
Capital Investment, Capital Projects......Page 140
Energy Management Without a Capital Budget......Page 142
Simple Payback: Wrong Tool for the Task?......Page 143
The Cost of Doing Nothing......Page 147
Break-Even Cost: The Limit to Capital Investment......Page 149
Determining a Budget for Additional Energy Analysis......Page 152
The Strategic Profit Model......Page 154
Energy Lessons: The Columbia Disaster......Page 166
The Evolution of Sustainable Business......Page 169
Sustainability and the Triple Bottom Line......Page 170
The Hunters and Farmers of Energy Savings......Page 173
Appendix I: The New World of Energy Procurement......Page 176
Appendix II: Electricity Deregulation Explained for the Industrial Consumer......Page 180
E......Page 188
R......Page 189
W......Page 190