Energy Management Practices in SME: Energy Conservation and Efficiency Improvement in Bakery Industries

The role of energy management has greatly expanded in industries. Effort to introduce energy management in Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SME) is limited due to lack of initiation, expertise and financial constraints. Bakery is one of the energy intensive and small Scale industries. India is the second largest producer of bakery products after USA. Bakery is the largest food industry in India. This book, therefore, provides the analysis of energy consumption in the bakery industries. Analysis reveals that the sector comprises huge energy saving potential without much investment since industries are grown up haphazardly and are using obsolete technologies for baking. The analysis should help the operators and entrepreneurs of the bakery industry sector to implement various energy saving opportunities, so as to reduce the energy consumption as well as help in reducing the CO2 emmision and other environmental problems.