National Energy Efficiency Award

Pathmasekara Nissanka

Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority has decided to develop Renewable Energy resources and declare energy development areas to implement energy efficiency measures and conservation programs to promote energy security, reliability and cost effectiveness in energy delivery and information management. It has also decided to initiate National Energy Efficiency Award 2009 - 2010.

The objective of the award is to bestow national recognition to the energy consumers in the sub sectors of manufacturing, services and healthcare, who have made systematic and serious attempts for efficient utilization, conservation and management of energy and have achieved substantial result, benefits during a period under review. Three winners from each category will be awarded cash prices. SLSEA will assist the winners to improve their energy efficiency by conducting capacity building programs for relevant staff here and abroad, helping to conduct energy audits, acting as a guarantor to obtain loans at special rates.

Additionally, consumer will naturally win the recognition as an institution committed to conserve energy. If consumer is an exporter the award will be a window to enter the green market especially in Europe since the energy conservation is an international norm.

SLSEA intends to widen the horizons of its existing Energy Conservation Award meant only for government organizations, to incorporate the private sector and to conduct the same as a prestigious annual national event. Through the program SLSEA envisages prompting energy users to embrace energy efficiency improvement opportunities made available by the SLSEA or by various other sources.

The National Energy Efficiency Award will be held under three categories.

Categories for registration large scale - month energy bill exceeding Rs. 1,000,000 Medium scale - monthly energy bill between Rs. 250,000 and 1,000,000

Small scale - monthly energy bill below Rs. 250,000 .

The prospective institutions should submit applications along with the energy consumption against goods or services production base reference data. The energy efficiency of the respective entities will be evaluated by comparing the base data with data obtained after six months.

Application for the registration could be obtained from the SLSEA between 9.00 am and 3.00 pm or down loaded from its web site www.energy.gov.lk. The duly completed applications should be handed over to office SLSEA 3-G17 Bandaranaike Memorial Conference Hall, Colombo 7 before September 30.