Methods and Algorithms for Increasing Energy Efficiency of Manufacturing Enterprises

In the Thesis, the author analyses the globally amassed experience regarding the issues of energy efficiency and demand response. Using this experience along with modern technologies, the author has developed a methodology that makes it possible to use the increasing of energy efficiency as well as demand response for large producers with the aim to diminish electricity costs and the amount of CO₂ emissions to the atmosphere. The complex approach includes such issues as optimisation of equipment use at the plant; optimisation of production cycles based on electricity prices; use of electricity storage in order to shift consumption in time, in conjunction with the above optimisation measures; integration of the plant’s own “green” generation in conjunction with the above optimisation measures. All of these suggestions and measures have been virtually approbated at an enterprise in Riga, which took an interest in this study and furnished the information necessary for the research.