Energy Conservation
- Energy conservation means using energy more efficiently and less wastage of energy.
- The most important aspect in this connection is that the energy conservation plan should try to eliminate wastage of energy at every step of production, conversion, without affecting the productivity and growth rate.
- Energy conservation requires new on going investments, more and more efficient equipment to replace old inefficient (creating losses) equipments at different stages of power generation in hydro-electric power plants.
- Conservation results lower cost per unit (KWH) generation of electricity.
- Economic operation of a power generation facility requires an optimal decision about the generating units which should be in operation at different times for a given load schedule.
- A lot of input energy saving is possible through computerized generation scheduling.
- Energy conservation is not only important in generation step but equally important at further stages like transmission and distribution of electrical energy so produced in generating stations.