IS REALTIME ENERGY MONITORING NECESSARY FOR HOMES?
By Ruth Carol Atieno Peter Drucker said, "You can't manage what you can't measure." When we install real time monitors the end goal here is to measure and take control of our energy consumption. A real time energy monitor allows you to see your energy consumption in...
How Can You Reduce your Carbon Footprint?
By Emily Gitonga “We only have one planet so take good care of it.” “The world will get to neutrality if we all take part in identifying areas, we can reduce our carbon footprint.” These are some of the phrases we find and hear from different digital platforms that...
WHERE DID MY MONEY GO?
By Richard Ojunga It is highly likely that at least at one point in your life, you’ve asked yourself, “Where did my money go?”. This can make you frantically go through all your financial receipts and transaction history. If you’re lucky enough, you might have at...
Identifying Energy Savings Opportunities in Compressed Air Systems
Truth Be Told! By Irvine Koech We don’t care much about things that are readily available, and often unseen. Despite its numerous applications, compressed air is one of those utilities that we don’t give much thought to. The air that goes into our car tires or packets...
Convergence of Energy Management and Project Commissioning
By Chris Mbori For a very long time, I used to associate project commissioning to the “ribbon cutting” opening event ceremony that marks the official opening of a site. And as much as that could be part of the commissioning process, the term commissioning involves...
Lessons Learned Implementing ESCO Model in a Developing Market
By Chris Mbori If you have been in the energy space, you will not miss coming across the phrase “the money is in the projects" So many Energy professionals are thus very eager to get energy efficiency projects implemented. Very few of them however, ever get...
STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE GOALS
By Linda Manyala Regional and global partnership development is necessary to drive the strategic goals in business and key factors enabling entry of products and services into new markets. For the energy sector in Kenya and Sub-saharan Africa, the development of...
The World Energy Day 2022 Theme – Insights
By Carolyne Gathuru The World Energy Day 2022 theme around which the different WED activities are aligned is “Empowering Energy independence in Africa: Enabling Rural &Urban Renewable Energy Awareness, Access, and Affordability” It is a subject matter whose time...
BEST PRACTICES ON HOW TO MAINTAIN AND OPERATE A SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM
Fortunately, a Solar PV system does not contain any moving parts which means maintenance of the same will not be as difficult. Today we will explore some of the best practices for maintenances and operation of Solar PV systems.
The New Face of Waste Management
By Linet Njeri I did a brief stint in the manufacturing sector as a brand manager. I was surprised one day to hear some banter between fellow brand managers on how pleased they were to see litter of their brand. For them, it was an indication that people were buying...
Role of financial managers In Energy Management
By Monica Ngage Financial managers play a key role in any organization. This revolves around allocating the scarce resources among many competing needs of to enable the organization run well. Basically they oversee the financial health of an organization by monitoring...
Eagles Measurement and Verification
By Martin Ochieng Measurement and Verification (M&V) of energy efficiency and improvement projects is a crucial tool developed by energy professionals towards verifying the effect of efficiency and improvement projects. This process is data intensive and aims...