"Any meaningful impact of an energy manager in a firm depends heavily on his/her ability to organize energy data logging as well as data collection from various departments of the firm not to mention data analysis and aggregation. The energy manager is faced with not so trivial issues such as comprehensiveness of data as well as correctness of data. Validation is as well an issue. Even in so called ISO 900X certified companies, which are supposed to regularly calibrate and repair in line instrumentation, sometimes instrumentation is simply not working. A stunningly simple procedure to make departments accountable for energy consumption is to either internally charge departments for their energy consumption, or even assign consumption ceilings to individual equipment. There are advantages as well as disadvantages making a boiler, or the ceramic tile department, or a motor-fan arrangement into a profit or loss centre. Tell us about your experience with internally charging departments for energy consumption, or any other management schemes to improve on energy accounting in your firm. No technical solutions please!! They are all known to us."

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