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Training course on energy efficiency in SMEs - engine-sme.eu

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Why not implement an EMS?<br />

Reas<strong>on</strong>s why managers do not launch the<br />

process are ma<strong>in</strong>ly:<br />

• No specific resp<strong>on</strong>sibility for <strong>energy</strong> topics<br />

• Yearly <strong>energy</strong> bills are c<strong>on</strong>sidered as fixed costs<br />

• C<strong>on</strong>fus<strong>in</strong>g <strong>energy</strong> bills (taxes, net costs, climate change levy,<br />

different bill<strong>in</strong>g periods)<br />

• Different <strong>energy</strong> carriers and different units are used and<br />

<strong>energy</strong> flows change dur<strong>in</strong>g their way through the organisati<strong>on</strong><br />

• The <strong>in</strong>dividual sub systems have been established over time<br />

and <strong>in</strong>fluence each other - the whole system has to be<br />

regarded and seems to be complicated<br />

www.eng<strong>in</strong>e-<strong>sme</strong>.<strong>eu</strong><br />

• Energy c<strong>on</strong>sumpti<strong>on</strong> and power rat<strong>in</strong>g are closely l<strong>in</strong>ked but<br />

must be dist<strong>in</strong>guished dur<strong>in</strong>g the evaluati<strong>on</strong>

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