Energy Manager Courses

In November 1995, a regulation issued and enforced by MENR and EIE/NECC in order to increase energy efficiency in industry. With this regulation, industrial establishments that have over 2000 TOE energy consumption should set up an energy management system, complete energy audits in three years, monitor specific energy consumption of main products in their plants and NECC has been monitoring all these activities. NECC has also started to organize the Energy Management courses in 1997 and has given the authority to three organizations in İzmir, İstanbul and Eskişehir in order to extend these courses overall Turkey. Until now approximetly 500 engineers from different industrial sectors have been trained as energy manager in trhe courses organized by EİE and other authorized organizations. Furthermore, Energy Management has been included in the course programs of engineering faculties of some universities.
Energy Manager Courses have been organized for different sectors such as iron and steel, arc furnaces, paper, cement, textile, fertilizer, food, ceramic, non-ferrous metal sectors and automotive by both NECC and authorized organizations.

Topics of the Energy Manager Courses
· Energy Management
· Combustion process
· Boilers - Furnaces
· Steam Systems
· Heat and Mass balance
· Maintenance control
· Power distribution & power factor correction
· Fans & Blowers
· Compressed air
· Lightening
· Combined Heat & Power (CHP)

Energy Manager Course Structure is strengthened by the comprehensive support of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

In the scope of the ' Training Center and Model plant' project, while realizing technology and information transfer from Japan that is one of the most important country in the world on energy efficiency studies, equipment requirement in EIE is supplied by the donations of JICA. Project activities has been started opening ceremony on October 22, 2001. With this project it is expected that effective energy management systems in factories will be enhanced so that 10 % energy savings potential equivalent to 2 million TOE and 500 million-dollar could be achieved. Also this training center will be used for the region countries in energy efficiency courses. First international course was organized on June, 2002 with cooperation of the UN-ESCAP.

Besides these services which have been given to the industrial sector, promotion, publication, data base , policy and building sector activities have been conducted.