Workshop 1. Energy Efficiency (EE) For SMEs

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Gaps:

• For SMEs: missing know-how, lower affordability, perceived business risks and growth pressures


• For ESCOs: scattered & small ticket size, financing risk & perceived low contractual enforcement, involved operations & marketing

Objectives:

• Create an engagement platform for SMEs to share their energy consumption & tied business issues with experts and get benefitted from one-to-one offline energy performance assessment and best industry practices


• Bringing all B2B stakeholders of ESCO model

Stakeholders

• SMEs - Rolling mills (Aluminium, Iron & Steel), Pharma, Engineering, Foundaries/Forging, Dairy etc, Builders, ESCOs (Energy Service Company) & EE experts, Business-product/services in EE, Financers & Students.

Workshop approach / topics

• Apriori registration & data collection


• Energy consumption data & trends from participating SME industries w/ registration


• Direct expectations from the workshop


• Pre-processing: Classification of common issues by experts


• Classification of common issues by experts


• Tailoring 4 focused sessions of the workshops on common brought problems


• Workshops


• Free Software base assessment of EE of participating companies on data apriori collected


• a starting welcome note briefing topics and setting expectations including taking participants inputs


• 4 focused interactive sessions


• One-to-one 20 minutes free consulting and discussion with the experts


• A concluding open forum for all participants, experts & vendors


• Guided walk through Expo


• Post follow-ups:


• Arranged follow-up site visit from expert ESCOs for proposal & implementation

Workshop content:

• Data collection & Pre-processing


• Software based offline EE assessment


• Topic 0: Setting context - ESCO business models as relevant to SMEs


• Topic 1: Heating Processes


• Topic 2: Ventilation & Air Conditioning


• Topic 3:Process Energy optimization & Electric bill reduction


• Topic 4: EE in Buildings – Green buildings


• Topic 5: Vendor session presenting latest in EE


• One-on-one interaction of participants with experts & their teams


• Concluding panel with experts, participants, Bankers & Vendors