Workshops on energy monitoring and targeting

Unlock the information hidden in your energy data

Monitoring and targeting is a management technique that should be central to any effective programme of energy management.
  • It will alert you to unexpected excess consumption;
  • It provides objective estimates of savings you have achieved; and
  • it can help you forecast energy demand
This course is suitable for those who want to implement a new M&T scheme or make an existing one more effective. It is intended for facilities managers, plant engineers, and works managers and engineers as well as full-time energy managers. Consultants will also find it useful.

The workshop is limited to 12 delegates. It is informal and interactive, with questions and discussion encouraged throughout. Examples and exercises will be used to illustrate and clarify the material.

 
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Use sensible views of complex data

What you will learn

At the end of the session, you will know how to
  • Detect exceptions with a remarkably simple routine report
  • Instantly prioritise them by excess cost
  • Account properly for the weather, production activity levels, and other quantifiable influences
  • Reveal inefficiency and waste through analysis of past behaviour
  • Focus energy surveys where there will be most benefit
  • Verify and quantify the benefit of energy-saving initiatives and projects
  • Forecast and track energy budgets accurately
  • Benefit from enhanced benchmarking opportunities
Specifically if you have heard of degree-days and cusum analysis and want to understand them properly, this is the place to learn. We will also touch on practical aspects of implementation, such as data collection, integration into wider business processes, and evaluation of software. 		 
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Yours to keep...

  • A handbook on the analysis and reporting of energy data
  • An Excel 2003 workbook containing samples of analysis and data-presentation tricks
You will be able to use the knowledge directly to improve your own "home-made" M&T schemes or to specify the features required from M&T software suppliers. 		 
A proper course handbook

Tutor

Vilnis Vesma MA CEng MEI has many years' continuous experience of designing, installing, supporting and operating energy monitoring and targeting schemes, and providing training for existing or potential users. This includes creating spreadsheet-based tools for energy management. He wrote a textbook on the subject (Managing Energy with a Desktop Computer, Energy Publications, 1987) and presented his first Energy Spreadsheet Masterclass in 1988.  
The organisations to which he has supplied M&T tools and know-how span a wide range of sectors including manufacturing industry as well as commercial and public sector organisations. He has written numerous articles on the subject. As well as authoring the government advice booklet Fuel Efficiency Booklet 13: Waste Avoidance Measures (1995) and the Carbon Trust's CTG008: Monitoring and targeting (2008), he has been a specialist contributor on M&T to Croner's Energy Management and Gee Publishing's Energy Saver, and publishes the definitive guide to M&T techniques on the web. The UK's former Action Energy programme retained Mr Vesma as a strategic advisor on energy monitoring and targeting.
Feedback from April 2010 in York:

"...made it easy to understand..."
"...good practical course..."
"...puts over the technical aspects in a light-hearted and practical way..."
"...really enjoyed exercises..."
"Vilnis has just switched the light on re energy management and performance"
"Will recommend to fellow energy specialists..."

Booking

The fee for the class is £250 (or £210 for payment with order) plus VAT. You can reserve and book a place or just register your interest by clicking here:

30 September in Bristol
21 October in Newcastle

Venues are close to major railway stations; workshops start at 10:15 and finish at 16:45

Hard-copy orders should be sent to

Vilnis Vesma
Pound House
Market Square
Newent GL18 1PS

Cheques if sent with your order should be made payable to DEGREE DAYS DIRECT LIMITED and payment can also be made by Visa or Mastercard by telephone to 01531 821350

Guarantee

if you don't find the course useful, just hand back the training materials and we will refund your attendance fee.

Enquiries can be addressed to the presenter (email Vilnis@VESMA.COM)