The ISO 50001 standard would shortly become mandatory for the export oriented industry like other ISO standards including 14001 and 9000 etc and Pakistan's textile industry would only benefit from international recognition by adopting Energy Management System (EnMS).
It is worth noting that the ISO 50001 standard is designed to provide organisations with a framework for integrating energy performance into their operational management practices, promoting efficiency throughout the supply chain. It was pointed out by the Secretary Aptma Punjab Secretary Anis-ul-Haq in a presentation made during the seminar on "Sustainable Energy Solution" for textile industry at the Aptma Punjab office. The immediate past Chairman Aptma Gohar Ejaz was chief guest in the seminar.
Secretary Aptma said the Aptma aims to introduce its members to ISO 50001, a global standard for Energy Management that came in force in June 2011. He further said the standard is intended to assist organisations in making better use of their existing energy consuming assets, promote energy management best practices and reinforce good energy management behaviours for greenhouse gas emission reduction projects and evaluates and prioritises the implementation of new energy-efficient technologies. He said the Aptma had establishment Energy Conservation Cell in 2008 and introduced EnMS implementation-joint initiative in collaboration with the GIZ and Smeda.
Anis said first phase of the programme has been fully subsidised by GIZ for 25 mills including 17 spinning, 4 weaving and 3 processing mills on first come first serve basis. He said the Energy Management System (EnMS) is a systematic approach for achieving sustainable energy efficiency improvements through continuous monitoring of company's energy flows and revision of performance parameters According to the Secretary Aptma Punjab, the 25 textile mills have monetary saving of Rs 293 million and electricity saving of 7.483MW besides total TOEs of 5614 and CO2 reductions of 30480 tones.
He said the 400 textile mills have potential of monetary savings worth Rs 8000 million, electricity savings of 268MW besides 200,000 TOEs and 1.08 million tones CO2 reductions.
Chairman Aptma Punjab Ahsan Bashir said the textile industry was consuming 1500MW electricity and the world experience suggests that 10 percent improvement in energy saving can easily be achieved through technical arrangements in place. He urged the members to take advantage of the energy conservation programme.
Bernhard Meyhoefer, Principal Advisor, GIZ REEE Programme, said the Aptma members should support and strengthen the setting up of sustainable production centre in Aptma for energy conservation in their respective mills. He said the giz would continue assisting Aptma and Smeda until 2014 to upgrade energy conservation and efficiency in textile mills. Fayyaz Riaz from Smeda said adoption of the conservation programme by more than 25 mills instead of targeted 15 mills in two years is an encouraging sign and the energy management training program should be taken as a parallel activity to develop capacities of textile mills.
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