Free Energy Management Workbook: A Practical Guide for Beginners

Understand Common Mistakes in Energy Management and How to Fix Them

Explore BPF Energy's latest workbook, 'Controlling Energy Management in Plastics Processing - A Quick Start Guide'. Now in its fourth edition, this comprehensive resource is designed to optimise your efficiency in plastics processing operations. Focusing on practical, hands-on strategies, this workbook serves as your guide through each manufacturing process, enabling you to effectively reduce energy consumption, lower costs, and decrease carbon emissions. Each project provides valuable insights, financial considerations, and a clear roadmap to successful implementation.

This document is exclusively accessible to BPF members and CCA Partners. If you are a CCA partner and wish to download this document, please email [email protected]. CLICK HERE to download and start saving today!

 

         

Building upon the foundation of the previous editions, it has been thoughtfully expanded to include a wider array of topics to offer more practical insights for plastics processors. Each section is designed to address the full spectrum of activities at a standard plastics processing facility. Discover how you can kickstart transformation within your operations with:

• Management: The essential actions required to set up an effective energy management programme. This will assist companies to achieve energy use reductions required by the BPF Energy CCA Agreement.
• Monitoring and targeting: The essential actions needed to set up an effective monitoring and targeting programme for plastics processors.
• Services: The essential actions needed to control and reduce energy use in services, e.g. motor management, compressed air, cooling and chilled water.
• Plastics processing: The essential actions needed to control and reduce energy use in the actual processing of the plastic material.
• Operations: The essential actions needed to improve operations in plastics processing. Simple changes in operations can have a dramatic effect on energy use.
• Buildings and offices: The essential actions to control and reduce energy use in buildings. This covers lighting and office equipment as well as gas use for heating and hot water.
• Site surveys: A site survey is where all the other sections of this workbook come together. A site survey is a necessary to locate profitable projects for energy use reduction.
• Carbon footprinting: The drive to net zero requires reduced carbon emissions and an essential first step is understanding the current emissions.

Authored by Dr. Robin Kent, this free downloadable workbook has been developed in collaboration with BPF Energy to support the British plastics industry's initiatives in minimising energy consumption. BPF Energy plays a pivotal role in overseeing the Climate Change Agreement for plastics processing in the UK, demonstrating a steadfast commitment to aiding the industry in curbing energy use for both ecological and economic benefits.

Individual companies and sites must validate the project details for their own circumstances. All project details in this publication are provided for guidance only.

 

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The workbook available on this page has been produced by BPF Energy to help guide plastic processors in implementing effective energy management strategies. Discover how you can achieve substantial reductions in your business's energy bills by participating in the CCA scheme. Click here to learn more.