Renewable energy: A new facility management offering

Over the past few years, the facility industry has seen a significant increase in the use of renewable energy. Despite being a specialized facility type, data centers contribute significantly to the world's power needs. They require a consistent, high-quality power supply for their operations. While the businesses that own them also need to achieve sustainability objectives.

The majority of data centers in India are powered by conventional, non-renewable energy, which is more expensive, not at all sustainable, and not at all affordable. This article clarified how facility managers can increase renewable energy use overall, particularly solar power.

HOW COME ENERGY MANAGEMENT IS IMPORTANT?

• If you think of energy management as an electrical surge that stimulates many outlets around the world, that is how important or valuable it is. Following are five ways energy management can change things:
• Reducing consumption and energy costs can assist a business in making savings.
• The planet can gain from it by having fewer greenhouse gas emissions.
• It might make it possible for a business to create more precise budgets and comprehend its operating costs.
• It can better equip a business for any uncertain supply chain market changes. An organization will be more capable of withstanding wild cost swings when the outside factors affect energy costs by decreasing its energy input.
• It may contribute to the development of a positive brand that clients and investors will value and want to be associated with, better-advancing business ESG objectives.

Making sure that people turn off the lights when they leave a room is the first step in energy management. Other activities include:

• Investing in new, more energy-efficient machinery.
• Maintaining and extending the equipment's useful life in order to keep it operating at its ideal power-generating capacity.
• Adjust flow rates to achieve the best levels of conservation.
• Assessing utility programs, in addition to discounts and incentives.
• Utility Bill Management (UBM) centralizes utility data to guarantee that costs are consistent with usage, among other things.

Conclusion

Facilities managers must monitor the development to ascertain whether those measures are effective and confirm that there have been energy efficient. Tracking can demonstrate the effectiveness of power management changes. Solar panels may make it possible to have a net-zero carbon footprint. They can also reduce the amount of grid energy you need to buy, protecting you from unanticipated price increases.