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Advanced Engineering Associates International
2 Proshyan Street, Yerevan 375019, Armenia
Tel.: (37410) 221969, 261770
Fax: (37410) 275491
E-mail: [email protected]
URL: http://www.aeai.am/
Digital Audit Equipment Introduced to Armenian Energy Service Companies
August 12, 2005. Audit skills are indispensable to energy service companies
(ESCO) for ensuring high quality services to their clients and improving
energy efficiency on project sites. The USAID funded Advanced Engineering
Associates International (AEAI) provides extensive assistance for the
development of ESCOs in Armenia. In the framework of this activity a set of
modern digital energy audit devices has been recently introduced to local
companies. Manufactured in USA in state-of-art technologies, the set
represents a total of 21 types of instruments and contains various sensors,
measurement tools, analyzers, an infrared camera and a weather-station.
These are the measurement devices which will be used by local ESCOs to
perform energy audit as well as to adjust the installed equipment and
control the operation process more efficiently. The instruments measure
temperature, relative humidity, lighting level, heat, current strength,
power, voltage, quality analysis of electric current as well as collect all
kind of meteorological data.
Last week six-day training course was organized by AEAI Armenia for around
20 participants from Armenian ESCOs, Energy Institute, ECOTEAM NGO, Alliance
to Save Energy funded by USAID and Thermosupply Projects PIU of World Bank
and RA Ministry of Finance and Economy. The objective was to demonstrate the
equipment in action, to promote audit skills among ESCOs, to educate them in
energy audit techniques as well as to develop a number of specific energy
efficiency measures to be applied on sites. Mr. William Dries and Mr. Tom
Sahagian, consultants from USA, have conducted the training program. The
course featured classroom training combined with everyday visits to Nork
Marash Hospital, AEAI pilot project site where participants have been
introduced to the setup of devices, principles and ways of their
functioning. The classroom training has covered not only lectures and
presentations on energy economics, audit scenario, techniques and
approaches, but also involved a lot of analysis and discussions. On
completion of the course the trainees received appropriate certificates of
participation.
An essential idea of this training, as noted Mr. Sahagian, is also that an
ESCO needs not only to think as an engineer but more importantly, as a
salesperson and thus master not only the technical side of the work but also
understand the human nature - the skill which will definitely bring the
business to success.
Since 2001, Advanced Engineering Associates International has been working
in Armenia to identify and realize substantial benefits for the country's
economy and citizens from increasing energy efficiency and developing
renewable energy resources.
Advanced Engineering Associates International
2 Proshyan Street, Yerevan 375019, Armenia
Tel.: (37410) 221969, 261770
Fax: (37410) 275491
E-mail: [email protected]
URL: http://www.aeai.am/
Digital Audit Equipment Introduced to Armenian Energy Service Companies
August 12, 2005. Audit skills are indispensable to energy service companies
(ESCO) for ensuring high quality services to their clients and improving
energy efficiency on project sites. The USAID funded Advanced Engineering
Associates International (AEAI) provides extensive assistance for the
development of ESCOs in Armenia. In the framework of this activity a set of
modern digital energy audit devices has been recently introduced to local
companies. Manufactured in USA in state-of-art technologies, the set
represents a total of 21 types of instruments and contains various sensors,
measurement tools, analyzers, an infrared camera and a weather-station.
These are the measurement devices which will be used by local ESCOs to
perform energy audit as well as to adjust the installed equipment and
control the operation process more efficiently. The instruments measure
temperature, relative humidity, lighting level, heat, current strength,
power, voltage, quality analysis of electric current as well as collect all
kind of meteorological data.
Last week six-day training course was organized by AEAI Armenia for around
20 participants from Armenian ESCOs, Energy Institute, ECOTEAM NGO, Alliance
to Save Energy funded by USAID and Thermosupply Projects PIU of World Bank
and RA Ministry of Finance and Economy. The objective was to demonstrate the
equipment in action, to promote audit skills among ESCOs, to educate them in
energy audit techniques as well as to develop a number of specific energy
efficiency measures to be applied on sites. Mr. William Dries and Mr. Tom
Sahagian, consultants from USA, have conducted the training program. The
course featured classroom training combined with everyday visits to Nork
Marash Hospital, AEAI pilot project site where participants have been
introduced to the setup of devices, principles and ways of their
functioning. The classroom training has covered not only lectures and
presentations on energy economics, audit scenario, techniques and
approaches, but also involved a lot of analysis and discussions. On
completion of the course the trainees received appropriate certificates of
participation.
An essential idea of this training, as noted Mr. Sahagian, is also that an
ESCO needs not only to think as an engineer but more importantly, as a
salesperson and thus master not only the technical side of the work but also
understand the human nature - the skill which will definitely bring the
business to success.
Since 2001, Advanced Engineering Associates International has been working
in Armenia to identify and realize substantial benefits for the country's
economy and citizens from increasing energy efficiency and developing
renewable energy resources.