Energy Management: Empowering Quality Departments to Lead the Energy Efficiency Charge
The quality department is well positioned to address energy efficiency within an organization. Efficient processes are a cornerstone of quality management.
“I suppose if you could have only one thing, it would be Energy. Without it, you haven’t got a thing.” – John F. Kennedy
Awareness of climate change is higher than ever, with growing global consensus over the importance of renewable energy. Mitigating climate change is a crucial challenge of our times and energy is at the forefront. Today’s energy crisis is delivering a shock of unprecedented breadth and complexity which is having far‐reaching implications for many households, businesses and the entire economy. We now face a perfect storm of impending declines in the availability of affordable, recoverable oil and ever increasing global competition for energy. The significance of this challenge becomes more evident each day as political unrest in the Middle East sends shock waves throughout the recovering economic world, as have recent events in the Ukraine and the Far East. The disruption in oil production translates into uncertain or often surging fuel prices and creates a major roadblock to economic recovery.