The Team now carries out a pre-assessment at company level to collect and review general information, which normally takes between 1-3 days. The main purpose of the pre-assessment is to identify where the biggest areas for energy savings are (= potential focus areas in task 1d!) and writing a realistic proposal to top management (task 1e).
This information can be obtained through existing documentation and computer systems, interviews with staff, a walkthrough of the plant, and simple monitoring. Because staff were informed about the pre-assessment, they are more likely to cooperate!
Information collected should include:
- General company details, such as address, number of staff, working hours and production capacity (see Worksheet 5)
- Organization chart with the different departments and main functions
- General production flow chart for the whole company with the main inputs and outputs for each production step (see Worksheet 6)
- Production data for the past 3 years, preferably for each month (see Worksheet 7)
- Energy and other resource consumption data and costs for the past 3 years, preferably for each month and for each production step or department (see Worksheet 7)
- An inventory of major equipment, such as boilers, air compressors, motors (see Worksheet 8)
- Overview of information collected for each process step / for each department (see Worksheet 9)
- Company greenhouse gas (GHG’s) emissions (see GHG Indicator)
Note: the amount and quality of information available is most important for task 2d (quantifying inputs and outputs and costs for focus areas). If only limited information is available, then task 2d can only be carried out in less detail or more time is needed to measure and collect data.
See Company examples for examples of companies that participated in the GERIAP project on how they did the pre-assessment.
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