ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS TRAINING | LMD

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‘Taking part corporations have saved a complete of 9 GWh of vitality, the equal of the annual electrical energy use of 1,400 houses’

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We’re completely happy to see native business leaders gaining sensible expertise and advancing their corporations towards vitality effectivity: EU Ambassador

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‘This 5-year, €7.56-million initiative is funded by the EU’s World Local weather Change Alliance+ (GCCA+) and  applied by UNIDO, with the Ministry of Setting, Ministry of Industries & Ministry of Energy and Vitality lead counterparts’

Main Sri Lankan Industries Curb Vitality Use Slicing Prices and Carbon 

Forty-five representatives from a few of Sri Lanka’s largest industrial vitality customers, vitality consultants and related authorities departments have efficiently accomplished a one-year lengthy internationally acknowledged vitality administration course. The vitality administration plans they applied as a part of the course have already saved 7,200 metric tonnes of GHG emissions, which is the equal of taking greater than 1,000 petrol automobiles off the highway for 1 yr.   

Colombo, 14 November 2023 – Kick-starting a brand new period of business vitality effectivity throughout Sri Lanka, the primary batch of 45 Sri Lankan Vitality Administration System trainees have been awarded their commencement certificates at a ceremony yesterday. Supported by the European Union-funded challenge ‘Accelerating Industries’ Local weather Response in Sri Lanka’, this effort has the potential to enhance nationwide vitality safety and assist the nation meet its local weather targets within the coming years.

“The manufacturing sector is a cornerstone of our economic system,” mentioned Chief Visitor Minister of Industries Dr Ramesh Pathirana.  “Our latest vitality disaster and the worldwide local weather disaster made it very clear that we should discover alternate options to fossil fuels. That’s why I’m so excited to see a few of our largest gamers within the manufacturing sector how they’ll cut back vitality waste. It’s a crucial a part of the clear vitality answer for this nation.”

European Union Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives Carmen Moreno talked about that, “Geopolitics of the vitality disaster leaves international locations depending on fossil gasoline vastly weak. A shift to inexperienced and renewable vitality is required in Sri Lanka and worldwide. And that is an space through which the European Union can share vital experiences and data. Clear vitality transition, which reduces greenhouse fuel emissions and enhances the standard of life, is amongst our high priorities. For that motive, we help initiatives like this one and we’re completely happy to see native business leaders gaining sensible expertise and advancing their corporations towards vitality effectivity.”

There may be appreciable potential for lowering industrial vitality waste throughout Sri Lanka’s manufacturing sector by deploying cost-effective expertise and administration practices. To harness this potential, over the previous 12 months, two main United Nations Industrial Improvement Group (UNIDO) trainers with the help of the Nationwide Cleaner Manufacturing Centre guided this primary group by an internationally acknowledged coaching course on Vitality Administration Programs (EnMS).

“In an industrial plant, vitality administration techniques focus everybody’s consideration on the significance of not solely conserving vitality, however implementing measures that may save vitality and cut back emissions, “mentioned UNIDO Undertaking Supervisor Nicholas Dehod. “That’s the place the journey of shifting away from fossil fuels begins.”

The course lined international greatest practices, but additionally took contributors out of the classroom into their work environments the place they developed vitality administration techniques which might be tailor-made to their firm’s wants.

Within the longer-term, collaborating corporations are actually on-track to slash as much as 25 per cent from their vitality payments. In the meantime, Sri Lanka now has a brand new cohort of vitality consultants capable of advise extra corporations on cut back vitality waste and lower your expenses.

With curiosity in Vitality Administration Programs coaching excessive, the Undertaking will provide additional programs, with the subsequent one as a consequence of begin in early 2024.

The EnMS coaching is a part of the ‘Accelerating Industries’ Local weather Response in Sri Lanka’ challenge. This 5-year, €7.56-million initiative is funded by the EU’s World Local weather Change Alliance+ (GCCA+). It’s applied by UNIDO, whereas the Ministry of Setting, the Ministry of Industries, and the Ministry of Energy and Vitality are the lead authorities counterparts. The challenge is a cornerstone of the Sri Lankan Authorities’s efforts to scale back GHG emissions within the industrial sector by 7 % by 2030 in accordance with its up to date (2021) Nationally Decided Contributions.