Energy Management (EE-310)

Energy Management (EE-310) is a Hindi-medium textbook for third-year polytechnic diploma students of Electrical Engineering under the BTER syllabus. The book starts with energy management and planning: energy policy and strategy, supply-side and demand-side energy planning, the seven principles of energy management and how an energy management organisation is set up. It then surveys India's energy and power sector, including the national energy strategy, non-conventional and renewable energy planning, rural electrification programmes and energy consumption trends. Later chapters explain energy audit, with audit instruments and the audit of lighting, electrical, compressed air and steam systems and of buildings, followed by economic analysis, the principles and legislation of energy conservation, environmental aspects of energy such as pollution from fossil fuels, acid rain, the greenhouse effect and flue gas cleaning (FGD and SCR), and energy for sustainable development. Written by Manisha Agarwal, the book runs to 108 pages (2013 edition). It is meant for diploma students of Electrical Engineering studying the EE-310 paper in Hindi medium.