Enigin Update - Building Owners Unaware of Energy Efficiency Act
THAILAND passed the Energy Conservation Promotion Act, requiring building owners to inspect their energy management nearly a year ago, but many building owners have no idea the Act exists.
The landlords of these buildings also fail to realise that they must also prepare an energy management report each March, due to start in March 2011 but delays in issuing auditors qualifications means it will be delayed a year..
According to the Bangkok Post the Act requires buildings and factories to have energy management inspections and certification. These include office buildings, hotels, banks, hospitals, shopping centres, department stores, universities, schools, residential buildings, entertainment sites and government buildings.
After operators submit an energy management report, buildings need to be inspected and certified by an energy auditor, with the audit submitted to the Thai Energy Ministry. Building owners failing to submit the report by March each year will face a fine of 200,000 baht ($6,631).
The Thai Department of Alternative Energy Development and Efficiency lists 3,647 factories and around 2,000 buildings nationwide that require an energy management inspection. In Greater Bangkok, there are 1,600 facilities - 40% factories and 60% buildings.
For factories, energy management will be based on the assessment of energy consumption compared with productivity. For buildings, it is calculated from energy consumption relative to gross areas. The system that uses the most energy in a typical building is air-conditioning. Enigin Distributors have the ideal solution in ACES to aid energy svaing.
Chan Sirirat, executive director of the property consultant Touch Property Co, said most factory owners were aware they needed energy management reports because they always complied with related laws, but many building owners were not aware they would be affected by the Act.
"Only a handful of owners acknowledge they need to inspect the energy management at their buildings," he noted.
"If the law wasn't postponed, they would have to start preparing a report now or it would be too late."
Enigin Plc's Eniscope Real-time and Analytics is the perfect solution to comply with governmental directives and laws such as this Act. Enigin Distributors can help decision makers to be able to manage and monitor their energy use in real-time and produce easy to understand energy use and management reports.
