WITH the looming power shortage in Mindanao is, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Region 11 is all set to send its DREAM Team to audit energy consumption of business establishments and other sectors in the region.
“If we can’t add power, then let us reduce power consumption,” said DOST-11 assistant regional director Elsie Solidum in last week’s Club 888 at The Marco Polo Davao.
Members of the DREAM Team or the Davao Region Energy Audit and Management Team, mainly engineers and private individuals were given proper training, equipment, and instruments to capacitate them do energy audits in establishments that request for that particular service.
DOST believes that an energy audit is a good starting step to earn more savings by way of ensuring efficient appliance and electronic uses in the workplace.
This is considered a necessity by most industries that want to reduce input cost by ensuring the use of highly efficient gadgets and appliances.
DOST has started its auditing in its own workplace and it has replaced ordinary fluorescent lights with T5 lights aimed at an eventual thirty percent lighting consumption reduction.
The DREAM Team has also started doing energy audits in small and medium enterprises which make up the bulk of the business community in the region.
DREAM Team is a multi-agency group with members from the Institute of Integrated Electrical Engineers (IIEE), the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), the University of Southeastern Philippines (USEP), the University of Mindanao (UM), and DOST 11.
The team is ready to provide energy audit services to all interested industries in the region.
It will help industries in setting energy conservation goals, identify areas where energy wastes can occur, relate energy consumption to production, improve the process/equipment efficiencies, and recommend energy saving opportunities.
The DREAM team suggests the replacement of old appliances with new but efficient ones as this could result to a remarkable reduction of electric consumption.
Experts can determine the savings that an establishment can achieve after following recommendations provided by the team.
The DREAM team is accepting requests for this particular energy audit service. [(PIA-11/MAI GEVERA-MACAPAGAT]
