El pasado jueves 13 de enero pude asistir en la ciudad de Colonia a la presentación, explicación, y motivación de un nuevo programa europeo orientado a la transnacionalidad europea a través de la investigación en el ámbito de la electromovilidad. Término, este último, reincorporado recientemente a nuestro vocabulario por vía de la investigación y la tecnología; y en ocasiones ofrecido como uno de los contribuyentes a no mantenernos en la actual situación de indefinición y parálisis.

Resultando dinámico el término en su expresión, y también algo electrizante, implicita en su propuesta la cuestión elásticamente más etérea que se refiere a lo que ofrece a la futura sociedad urbana. Lo que ofrece a los municipios que en algún momento definitivamente sean capaces de incorporar, integrar y apreciar lo que la electromovilidad nos propone a los ciudadanos en el medio ambiente urbano; esencialmente:

• ausencia de humos
• ausencia de ruidos
• ausencia de (malos) olores.

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ENERGY EFFICIENCY _ANNEX (iv):

Manufacturing Preliminary Assessment: Present and Future Strategies – Past Tactics

Whenever you decided to get involved in the process of energy efficiency within an organization, it is very likely that you already ran your first trials with an extraordinary variety of results. And it might also happen that you stayed wandering why should you start new actions, modify investment intensity, or redirect some resources in such a “traditional and well known area” as that of energy efficiency outlook.

Far from the newer and more efficient equipment approach that your preferred equipment supplier and some low skilled energy efficiency schools might be suggesting to you at the light of a total cost reduction strategy (within an increasing investment scenario!?), and extremely broader than a single energy utility dealer proposal, just playing with negotiations and market pricing, I would suggest to start from this single tool shown in the box diagram. It is just about trying how the model fit the different areas below, above, and beyond the scope of your strategy in energy efficiency. As far as this strategy is inevitable in the case that you are committed to your Environmental Policy.

The initial mapping with this single model, might also help to avoid the only-action-oriented-tactic that is providing sustained return on energy savings in the best of cases, while it is risking continuity on a sustainable direction and some derived advantageous processes due to the lack of connection and poor framing within the overall structure and functions (how can we honestly involve the maintenance team but providing them, among others, with predictive tools by means of energy efficiency technology).

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