Abstract
Multinational Manufacturing Corporations
(MMC’s), which account for a fair percentage of the
manufacturing industry encounter challenges with energy
quantification and optimisation. Traditional energy models,
which have long been used for energy system evaluations have
limited application at MMC’s due to model characteristics of
high level of expertise, data and time intensive, long time
horizons and large spatial detail. The Agile Energy Model
utilises business processes for energy evaluation and
optimisation. The features of the Agile Energy Model
supporting application at MMC’s are generic, reproducible,
ease of use, minimum user input data and time requirements
and transparency of the evaluation process. It enables the
energy quantification of non-traditional activities of finance,
HR, ICT and sales and marketing. The methodology of
application of the Agile Energy Model is demonstrated with
the established procure to pay process.