Managing energy costs: a behavioral and non-technical approach

"This book discusses the numerous reasons why many organizations fail to manage the behavioral aspects of energy consumption, and shows you how you can apply proven management techniques to significantly reduce these unnecessary energy expenses within your own organization. Included are a broad array of examples of companies who have pioneered these efforts, their actual savings (often millions of dollars annually), step-by-step methodologies and typical energy-wasting organizational pitfalls to avoid. Based on years of study, research and documentation, the author communicates in an easy-to-understand and cohesive manner how to break the prevalent cycle of energy waste, and to make your employees both cooperative in saving energy, and accountable for the energy they use. Completely non-technical in its approach, his book focuses exclusively on how to manage the human element of energy consumption."--Jacket.

Machine derived contents note: Section I-Linking Behavior and Energy Consumption 1 -- 1. Unique Characteristics of Electricity that -- Increase Energy Costs 3 -- 2. How Attitudes Influence Energy Consumption 19 -- 3. Common Electrical Myths that Increase Energy Costs 37 -- 4. Organizational Pitfalls that Increase -- Energy Consumption 51 -- 5. How Employee Behavior Affects other -- Common Energy Management Initiatives 67 -- 6. The Financial Impact of Managing the -- Behavioral Aspects of Energy Consumption 79 -- 7. The Environmental Impact of Energy Consumption 95 -- 8. Critical Success Factors Towards -- Heightened Energy Awareness 113 -- 9. Section Wrap-up 139 -- Section II-Reference Section 143 -- 10. Low Cost and No Cost Actions 145 -- 11. Energy Awareness Facts, Quotes and Tidbits 161 -- Environmental Facts and Quotes 161 -- Global Warming, is it Fact or Fiction? 162 -- Effects of Global W arm ing 169 -- Global Warming Tipping Points 176 -- Paradoxes of Global Warming 178 -- Connecting Energy Consumption and -- G lobal W arm ing 180 -- Global Warming, is it too Late to Act? 184 -- Green Power 186 -- Mercury 187 -- General Climate Quotes for an -- Awareness Program 189 -- Fina…