ENERGY AUDIT : NEED FOR PROCESS INDUSTRY

This India is the Fifth largest producer of Electrical energy in the world. Despite such achievements the gap between demand and supply of electrical energy is increasing every year and power sector is highly capital – intensive. Thus the deficit in installed capacity was nearly 10000MWper year. So the gap between demand and supply is continuously increasing day by day. Growing concerns arise about energy consumption and its adverse environmental impact in recent years in India, which cause manufactures to establish energy management groups. An energy audit is a study of a plant or facility to determine how and where energy is used and to identify methods for energy savings. The energy auditing is the key to successful running of an industry with saving energy & contributing toward preserving resources of energy. Managing energy is not a just technical Challenge but one of how to best implement those technical Challenges within economic limits, and with a minimum of disruptions. The opportunities lie in the use of existing energy more precisely, greater efforts at savings and the implementation of new technologies.