PetroEnergy 2009, the two day workshop on energy saving techniques organised by the Society of Energy Engineers and Managers in association with Armstrong International of USA unanimously recommended to set up an Energy Conservation Council with representation from the petroleum and petrochemical industries to address various issues related to energy conservation.

Dr George Sleeba CMD of FACT stressed the need to address the increasing demand supply gap of fossil fuels in India, which is really challenging. He called upon every individual to convert this challenge to opportunity for developing the nation to achieve environment and energy sustainability. He emphasised on the promotion of clean energy technologies.

Mr AM Narayanan head energy efficiency division, energy management centre of Kerala Government said that the petroleum and petrochemical sector being one of the core economic sectors need to set a pace for the energy conservation and climate change action plans which is stressed in the Prime Minister’s National Missions.

The delegates also called upon to formulate a specific energy management policy to provide enabling provisions for energy conservation programmes; the policy shall clearly spell out the organisational structure for Energy Management and the Energy Information System. It also recommends carrying out periodic training need assessments to improve energy conservation efforts and organise training program.

The workshop focused on energy performance codes, best practice examples on energy efficiency in process/utilities and share such experiences, energy efficiency delivery mechanisms, and participation of financial intermediaries, methodologies for optimising specific energy consumption and benchmarking procedures.

Mr John Minu Mathew GM (Technical) of BPCL Kochi Refinery threw open the challenge to the conference of what could be done for making the country a champion in energy efficiency and cleaner production.

(Sourced from Business Line)