A place at the table

Abstract

Escalating energy prices and the omnipresent threat of rolling brown outs to black outs has given us a new awareness of energy and its critical importance to everything we do. Just think what the current price of motor fuels has done to the cost of getting products from producer to consumer. This awareness offers us an incredible opportunity to redefine what the Energy Managers should do, and what they should be. Energy Managers and Energy Management have historically been short changed. As I noted in my address Wednesday morning, there was a mad scramble of the 1970s to figure out what steps saved energy. Out of that chaos, we developed an equipment focus which relegated Energy Managers to the boiler room. Too many are still there. Copyright © (2006) by The Fairmont Press, Inc.