Welcome to the “Energy Efficiency Guide for Industry in Asia”! This Guide has been developed for Asian companies who want to improve energy efficiency through Cleaner Production and for stakeholders who want to help them.

SAVE ENERGY REDUCE COSTS and PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT Companies that improve their energy efficiency can save energy, reduce costs and protect the environment

So let’s take a look at “Where do you start?”

Depending on who you are, you can click on the drawing to find out what is in this Guide for you. Are you a company manager? Or a production staff at a company? Are you an outside organization wanting to help a company improve energy efficiency, such as a cleaner production centre, industry association? Are you from the government and developing policies on energy efficiency? Or are you a supplier or customer of industry Or a financial institution investing in industry?

Let’s take company management as an example

First, the benefits of energy efficiency are explained. It then tells you what information in the Guide is most useful to you, for example, case studies of other companies Clicking on any of these links will take you directly to this information! If the company manager decides he or she wants to start saving energy, here are some suggestions of where to start

For each of the other groups it is also explained what is in the guide for them

Let’s now have a look at the other components of the Guide. A methodology on how to improve energy efficiency was tested on more than 40 companies

The methodology consists of 6 steps You can download the methodology Or click on a step, for example step 3

Under each step the purpose is explained, the tasks and how much time is needed for each task. For example, under step 3 there are three tasks

Task 3b is to identify possible options. If you go to this task there is a short description of what to do. But you can also find out how other companies applied this task in practice

Because every company is different

And you can download worksheets to help complete each task,

In this example, a worksheet to identify possible energy efficiency options

The Guide is developed for all industry sectors in Asia. However, more detailed information is given for five sectors

The pulp and paper sector The ceramic sector The chemicals sector the cement sector and the iron & steel sector For example, if you are a cement manufacturer

You can download a chapter that describes cement production and the main energy uses You can also look at case studies of other cement companies

And click on a company name to find out what this company has done to improve energy efficiency

You an download a summary for this company

or download individual options

But maybe you want to know about how to improve the performance of your boiler. Then you can go to the energy equipment section of the Guide

Technical information is available for thermal and electrical energy equipment And for monitoring equipment. Let’s have a look at “Boilers and thermic fluid heaters”

You can download a chapter that describes boilers and how to reduce their energy consumption

And powerpoint training materials for this chapter

You can also download a checklist of boiler options

or case studies of implemented options

You can also click on Tools

This allows you to go directly to All training materials All case studies

To search for case studies by country, sector or energy equipment

Technical tools

Such as option checklists and worksheets,

The contact database

Where you can look for consultants, government agencies, suppliers and other organizations who can help you

Or to add your own contact details

The information database

Where you can look for publications or add your own publication

You can also find out more about financing energy efficiency options And about climate change, the Kyoto Protocol and CDM Of course there is also a search function Many parts of the Guide have been translated into Bahasa Indonesia, Chinese, Sinhala, Thai and Vietnamese For example, if you click on “Thai”

A list of translated materials is given that you can download for free. The same materials are available in the other languages.

A summary of the guide is available as a publication, but you can also order a CDrom of the Guide

“ENERGY EFFICIENCY GUIDE FOR INDUSTRY IN ASIA” The Energy Efficiency Guide for Industry in Asia can really help industry to

“ENERGY EFFICIENCY GUIDE FOR INDUSTRY IN ASIA” SAVE ENERGY REDUCE COSTS PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT save energy, reduce costs, and protect the environment.

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