ON ENERGY AUDITING: AN EXPERIENCE WITH A JUTE MILL

Abstract

The Indian government has already been selected the energy sector in industry as a priority sector & stressed the need of efficient use of energy in industry. Most of the state governments in India have made energy audits mandatory for large scale energy consuming industries. So in industrial sectors the energy saving practices is gaining importance of the realization that ‘energy saved is energy produced & that too at economical cost’. This paper shares the experiences of the author regarding some of the energy saving measures of jute mill situated in West Bengal. The effect of such measures were realized through reduction of cost in respect of energy.