Saturday, December 12, 2015

Green Industrial Policy

Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) - UK



The Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) is an energy assessment and energy
saving scheme and is established by the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme Regulations
2014 (ESOS Regulations).
The scheme applies to large undertakings and groups containing large undertakings in the
UK.

The qualification date for the first compliance period is 31 December 2014.
A large undertaking is:
- any UK undertaking that meets either one or both of the conditions below:
 it employs 250 or more people1

 it has an annual turnover in excess of 50 million euro (£38,937,777), and an annual
balance sheet total in excess of 43 million euro (£33,486,489)


https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/466515/LIT_10094.pdf



https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/techniques-slash-73-off-your-energy-bill-how-much-do-you-kit-oung

New Technologies to Help in Energy Conservation and Efficiency Improvement









Energy-management system
Advanced analytics
Smart grids

Immersion-cooling technology
Liquid-desiccant systems
Pressurized-plenum-recirculation-air system

Automated-compressor-staging and capacity control systems
Variable-head-pressure controls
Direct-contact water heaters



Power

Ultra-supercritical plants
High-efficiency combined-cycle gas turbine
Trigeneration

Cement

Fluidized-bed advanced-cement-kiln system
Combustion-system improvements (gyrotherm)
High-efficiency grate coolers (reciprocating)
Improved preheating/precalcining

Oil refining and chemicals

Advanced-process control
Membrane gas separation
High-pressure recovery
Steam compressors


Pulp and paper

Advanced-thermomechanical pulping
Heat recovery in thermomechanical pulping
High-consistency paper making
Impulse drying in wet-pressing process


Steel
Coke-dry quenching
Cyclone-converter furnace
Endless-strip production
Top-gas-recycling blast furnace
Mining Automated-mine-ventilation control and

Mining

Automated-mine-ventilation control and air reconditioning
High-pressure grinding rolls
In-pit crushing-conveyance and high-angle conveyance systems
Low-loss conveyor belts
Stirred-media mills

From
McKinsey & Co.

Greening the future: New technologies that could transform how industry uses energy

August 2015

Authors

Harsh Choudhry
Mads Lauritzen
Ken Somers
Joris Van Niel


You can download the report from McKinsey Company website