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Section 134 of Company act 2013- Lost Opportunity to drive engagement with stakeholders? #EnergyEfficiency #EnergyManagement

As per the rule 8(3) the Companies (Accounts) Rules 2014 the Board report shall contain Disclosure of Energy conservation activities that happens in the financial year. Disclosure should include steps taken to conserve energy, utilization of alternative sources and capital investment on energy conservation projects.

In last week I went through many annual reports to understand kind of projects or initiatives leading conglomerates are taking in the Energy Efficiency landscape. Reviewed annual reports from over 10 large and around 15 midsize companies from diverse industrial sectors, to understand and analyze their thought process on Energy Efficiency or Energy Productivity in general.

Surprisingly most of the Energy Efficiency initiatives listed in the annual reports were to common projects like Installation of VFDs, replacement of CFL with LED lights, Power factor correction, and low-cost retrofit projects. They certainly meet the objective of complying with the regulatory requirements and reporting the bare minimum information as is required by the system.

With forward looking organizations taking scientific targets on Energy Productivity improvement, investors and stakeholders want to know more about how your company is poised to respond to challenges of tomorrow.

Some of things that companies can cover are:-

  • Efforts being taken to utilize data assets?
  • How is company planning to innovate on operational practices?
  • What is the plan to use emerging technologies such as #IIoT, #BigData and #Cloud?

I genuinely think that annual report is a very effective way of communicating with stakeholders, reaffirming the company’s approach towards increased Energy Productivity and overall sustainability, otherwise it’s pretty much a lost opportunity.

Regards,

Sumit Nawathe

Section 134 of Company act 2013- Lost Opportunity to drive engagement with stakeholders? #EnergyEfficiency #EnergyManagement

As per the rule 8(3) the Companies (Accounts) Rules 2014 the Board report shall contain Disclosure of Energy conservation activities that happens in the financial year. Disclosure should include steps taken to conserve energy, utilization of alternative sources and capital investment on energy conservation projects.

In last week I went through many annual reports to understand kind of projects or initiatives leading conglomerates are taking in the Energy Efficiency landscape. Reviewed annual reports from over 10 large and around 15 midsize companies from diverse industrial sectors, to understand and analyze their thought process on Energy Efficiency or Energy Productivity in general.

Surprisingly most of the Energy Efficiency initiatives listed in the annual reports were to common projects like Installation of VFDs, replacement of CFL with LED lights, Power factor correction, and low-cost retrofit projects. They certainly meet the objective of complying with the regulatory requirements and reporting the bare minimum information as is required by the system.

With forward looking organizations taking scientific targets on Energy Productivity improvement, investors and stakeholders want to know more about how your company is poised to respond to challenges of tomorrow.

Some of things that companies can cover are:-

  • Efforts being taken to utilize data assets?
  • How is company planning to innovate on operational practices?
  • What is the plan to use emerging technologies such as #IIoT, #BigData and #Cloud?

I genuinely think that annual report is a very effective way of communicating with stakeholders, reaffirming the company’s approach towards increased Energy Productivity and overall sustainability, otherwise it’s pretty much a lost opportunity.

Regards,

Sumit Nawathe

Section 134 of Company act 2013- Lost Opportunity to drive engagement with stakeholders? #EnergyEfficiency #EnergyManagement

As per the rule 8(3) the Companies (Accounts) Rules 2014 the Board report shall contain Disclosure of Energy conservation activities that happens in the financial year. Disclosure should include steps taken to conserve energy, utilization of alternative sources and capital investment on energy conservation projects.

In last week I went through many annual reports to understand kind of projects or initiatives leading conglomerates are taking in the Energy Efficiency landscape. Reviewed annual reports from over 10 large and around 15 midsize companies from diverse industrial sectors, to understand and analyze their thought process on Energy Efficiency or Energy Productivity in general.

Surprisingly most of the Energy Efficiency initiatives listed in the annual reports were to common projects like Installation of VFDs, replacement of CFL with LED lights, Power factor correction, and low-cost retrofit projects. They certainly meet the objective of complying with the regulatory requirements and reporting the bare minimum information as is required by the system.

With forward looking organizations taking scientific targets on Energy Productivity improvement, investors and stakeholders want to know more about how your company is poised to respond to challenges of tomorrow.

Some of things that companies can cover are:-

  • Efforts being taken to utilize data assets?
  • How is company planning to innovate on operational practices?
  • What is the plan to use emerging technologies such as #IIoT, #BigData and #Cloud?

I genuinely think that annual report is a very effective way of communicating with stakeholders, reaffirming the company’s approach towards increased Energy Productivity and overall sustainability, otherwise it’s pretty much a lost opportunity.

Regards,

Sumit Nawathe

Section 134 of Company act 2013- Lost Opportunity to drive engagement with stakeholders? #EnergyEfficiency #EnergyManagement

As per the rule 8(3) the Companies (Accounts) Rules 2014 the Board report shall contain Disclosure of Energy conservation activities that happens in the financial year. Disclosure should include steps taken to conserve energy, utilization of alternative sources and capital investment on energy conservation projects.

In last week I went through many annual reports to understand kind of projects or initiatives leading conglomerates are taking in the Energy Efficiency landscape. Reviewed annual reports from over 10 large and around 15 midsize companies from diverse industrial sectors, to understand and analyze their thought process on Energy Efficiency or Energy Productivity in general.

Surprisingly most of the Energy Efficiency initiatives listed in the annual reports were to common projects like Installation of VFDs, replacement of CFL with LED lights, Power factor correction, and low-cost retrofit projects. They certainly meet the objective of complying with the regulatory requirements and reporting the bare minimum information as is required by the system.

With forward looking organizations taking scientific targets on Energy Productivity improvement, investors and stakeholders want to know more about how your company is poised to respond to challenges of tomorrow.

Some of things that companies can cover are:-

  • Efforts being taken to utilize data assets?
  • How is company planning to innovate on operational practices?
  • What is the plan to use emerging technologies such as #IIoT, #BigData and #Cloud?

I genuinely think that annual report is a very effective way of communicating with stakeholders, reaffirming the company’s approach towards increased Energy Productivity and overall sustainability, otherwise it’s pretty much a lost opportunity.

Regards,

Sumit Nawathe

Beyond the usual use cases! #EnergyAnalytics

Last week I took a pretty late night flight from Hyderabad to Kolkata. My flight landed at around 2.30 am early morning. Noticed a few surprising things:-

  • Almost all lights in the arrival section near the belt area were lit. Only 1 belt would have been used for our flight. (Censors wouldn’t perhaps be the best thing as the staff does move around)
  • Temperature profile was very low, HVAC system must have been on for quite sometime.

It made me think that are we creating enough value out of the data assets we have? Could there be a simple logic built that would connect flight arrival, departure timings, passenger behaviour (check in time etc) and manage overall energy consumption?

Majority enegry consumption in Airports is across HVAC and Lighting, tapping into data related to flight schedules, passenger behaviour can really help in moving beyond the obvious when it comes to using data and making the best use of it.

Sounds silly but I guess someone might just be working on it!

What do you think?

Regards,

Umesh Bhutoria.