Your plant personnel already have several constraints placed on them, namely:

• Production and safety are their first responsibilities.
• Since most plants are older than the people currently working in them plant personnel have inherited conditions they did not create and don't have the time to search for energy waste and update procedures or controls for improvement.
• Plant personnel have five or six "hats" they sometimes wear and although energy management may be one of them they cannot give the task the concentrated time and attention needed to it to do it effectively.
• If they did have the time several of them would have to block out six to ten months to devote to creating an energy management and monitoring system. Whenever emergencies or contingencies would occur these people would have to either ignore the diversion or break away from the energy management project activities and lose more time "catching up" on where they were when they were diverted.
• Before they could begin they would have to develop a method of evaluation of results which would then have to be tested for historical accuracy.
• It could be several months or even years before the project could get started.

In that time, you have been paying the energy cost for the inefficiencies that have not been addressed!

EMI has:

1) The concentrated time to devote to your energy management problems.
2) A superb record of past successes with qualified references.
3) An objective experienced staff which can deal effectively with the energy issues including identifying what those issues are and arriving at solutions.
4) The PREUF TOOL model for evaluating results of the energy programs.
5) The ability to perpetuate results via regular on-site energy audits.
6) The ability to start now.