省エネ診断がきっかけで電力の見える化がスタート ─生き残りを賭けた省エネ活動─

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Our company suffered large financial damage due to the Lehman Shock in 2008 and adopted cost-cutting measures to escape the financial crisis; however, the emergency measures adopted did not have a significant outcome. Therefore, we focused on the electricity cost, accounting for a large amount of the sales volume, and analyzed the electricity data using "MIERUKA" by visualizing electrical usage in real time to improve the cost performance. Although we were eager to put our plans in to action, we had insufficient practical knowledge about energy-saving skills on site. We then discovered an energy-saving diagnosis program supported by the Energy Conservation Center, which is a governmental institution, that could aid our energy-saving project. We were able to speed up our project because of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster followed by the Great East Japan earthquake in 2011. We had an excellent outcome owing to the enthusiastic and continuous effort from our staff at all levels. I describe a part of this improvement process while highlighting the importance of "MIERUKA" for analyzing the electricity data and the environmental load support from the Energy Conservation Center.