Energy is lifeblood for survival of our civilization and development of nations. We cannot imagine life without various forms of energy that we use in all spheres of life. We have gone through an energy revolution in last few centuries by exploring many new sources of energy. Inspite this, perfection in energy use that will make our growth sustainable is still a far away target and optimizing energy usage is important.

Whether you are a engineer or from management specialization, you are expected to optimize various costs to improve profitability. Energy bills are easy to monitor and optimize. You get recognition for it and this becomes more important as you rise in businesses.

With industrial revolution energy cost has become important in all spheres of our life. Hence its optimization is essential. What you find here, will help you to find how much energy is used and relating it with how much service or utility it provides. This can be benchmarked with similar facilities to set targets for time bound improvement.

10 case studies for all professionals & 53 cases for electrical & mechanical machines and equipments besides checklists for the same help you do so easily.

The author Dr. Rakesh Jain is an engineer with MBA(Human Resource) and Doctorate in 'Feedback Management Skills for Decision Making' with 36 years of industry & 3 years of teaching experience. The Course editor Dr. Arvind Gupta, Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Dean faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies and Research and Chairman Centre for Energy Studies in J. C. Bose University of Science and Technology, YMCA, Faridabad has 30 years’ experience in Industry, Research and Teaching.

Incase you wish to know more or if some issue is not clearly understood, please feel free to write to me. Dr. Rakesh Jain