Introduction to the Energy Barometer

The Energy Barometer scientifically compares buildings’ energy consumption on an ‘apples-to-apples’-basis taking into account factors such as climatic condition, occupancy, floor area, etc.

Energy Cybernetics has been an active and leading player in the South African energy space since 1998, focussing on energy optimisation consulting, systems and services to a host of businesses. The Energy Barometer is proof of our commitment to play an active role in securing South Africa’s energy future. The Barometer aims: to develop a comprehensive, reliable and accurate energy benchmark database of South African buildings enabling building-owners to assess their energy intensities and compare these with their historic consumption as well as to the industry average and other buildings in the same sector; and to ultimately create an awareness of industry’s energy consumption and its emissions footprint with a view to become more environmentally aware and playing a much-needed role in securing the country’s energy future.

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Value of using the Energy Barometer

The value for organisations to participate in the Energy Barometer is four-fold:

• Benchmarking: The Energy Barometer provides every participant with a report, mapping their performance rating and ranking against other organisations of similar type as well as against the industry average. This gives organisations a foundation on which to base their energy optimisation projects and monitor their improvement. The Barometer’s long-term goal is to launch a web-based energy benchmarking-system accessible to all participants. 
• Economic: Embarking on improving a generally neglected area of operations such as energy efficiency, often leads to simultaneous, unexpected improvements in other areas, in the long-term yielding higher throughputs and better quality products as a result of improved total business efficiency with significant bottom-line gains. 
• Marketing: In an increasingly environmentally conscious world, a building with a positive energy profile is much more marketable than one with an energy profile that disregards the environment. 
• Tax rebate: Initiating energy efficiency projects will align participants with the objectives of Government’s Power Conservation Plan and as a result they may qualify for the accompanying tax rebates. 

Need for commercial and industrial energy efficiency

Industry and the commercial sector is by far the biggest contributor to South Africa’s energy consumption and it is clear in view of the current difficulties faced in the local energy environment that business needs to rise to these challenges and engage with Government to secure South Africa’s energy future, economic growth and development.

Energy Cybernetics, through the Energy Barometer offers organisations the opportunity to play their part in shaping our country’s energy and economic future.

Accept the challenge and register for participation in the Energy Barometer! 

Links to supporting sites

CEF (Pty) Ltd (CEF), through its division the National Energy Efficiency Agency (NEEA), works with Energy Cybernetics to promote their energy saving tools, one of which is the Energy Cybernetics Energy Barometer. NEEA applauds this initiative and will continue to support and collaborate with Energy Cybernetics to fast-track the accelerated roll-out of these technologies in South Africa.
http://www.cef.org.za/

Save It! is Government’s national energy efficiency campaign aimed at both the industrial and commercial as well as consumer sectors to create an awareness of the need to save energy and to bring about behavioural changes to enact energy saving measures.
http://www.savingenergy.co.za