The industry is under increasing pressure to improve its energy-performance and operate more sustainably to help limit its environmental impact.
As a user of compressors, vacuum pumps or air treatment equipment, this can be a challenge. You need to ensure that your compressed air system and equipment is running as efficiently as possible, to help reduce your energy costs and your carbon emissions. But with so many technologies to choose from and constant legislative updates, it can be hard to make an informed choice.
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) & Green Energy
In the past few years, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been a vital initiative taken by numerous fortune 500 companies around the world announcing aggressive goals relating to utilizing green energy.
Businesses are expected to assume responsibility for their impact on people, the environment, communities and societies in which they operate. For many companies, energy conservation plays an integral part in their sustainability and green energy goals.
Electric consumption is one of the most carbon-intensive activity and organizations are under massive pressure to reduce all utility consumption to improve profitability and meet carbon reduction targets which are the ultimate purposes of energy conservation.
Compressed Air (CA) systems have a significant impact on the energy consumption and efficiency of manufacturing systems. Offsetting energy costs through reduced use of compressed air utilization is not only cost-effective, but such practices allow for CSR success, which has a profound impact on the environmental sustainability and the export market as well.
Compressed air being the most expensive and the most in-efficient amongst utilities is wasted on an average rate of 20-30%, owing to unnecessary escalation of the electric power consumption on the manufacturing plants.
Bifurcating the compressed air wastages: Leakages, Pressure Drops, and other system in-efficiencies are the issues residing in almost every compressed air network which are either ignored by the plant personnel or are left due to lack of expertise to work on and control
These issues can be solved by conducting a Detailed Compressed Air Audit through trained engineers who have experience in compressed air systems, latest equipment, and trends.
Energy conservation is one of the most effectively conveyed forms amongst the CSR initiatives and compressed air systems being one of the major electricity consumers deserves due attention and a thorough assessment by experts.
BENEFITS OF Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
- Increase in exports by meeting customer’s sustainability standards
- Brand recognition
- Positive business reputation
- Increase Sales & customer loyalty
- Operational cost savings
- Better financial performance
- Create an attraction for talent and better retention owing workplace improvements.
- Organizational growth
WAYS TO REDUCE CARBON EMISSIONS?
- Efficient Heating
- Reducing Wastages
- Heat recovery
- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
- Carbon Offsetting
- Education and Behavior Change
- Building competitiveness
- Corporate Water Footprints
- Corporate Citizenship
- Green manufacturing
- Greener Commutes
