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Business Power-Saving Management Briefing Session
The industrial world has agreed to make an effort to implement electricitysaving management in order to coincide with the date August 13th which is
the starting period of this year’s expected peak week of electricity
consumption.
On the 13th, the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Ministry of
Knowledge Economy, along with major enterprises such as Samsung Electronics,
Posco, SK Innovation Co., LTD, Samsung Electro-Mechanics, Hyundai Motor
Company, Hyundai Steel, LG Electronics held the ‘Electricity Saving
Management Briefing Session’ at the Suwon factory of Samsung ElectroMechanics.
The business community stated that “businesses are going to enhance their
level of work concentration during the summer season by adjusting vacation
schedules and wearing lighter clothes during the peak period of electricity
use” and said that “they will do everything they can to save electricity
in the office and factories through efforts such as operating independent
power plants to secure power.”
Minister of Knowledge Economy, Hong, Suk-woo said that he “wishes today’s
event to become the start to spread the culture of electricity-saving
management to all industries” and also said that “the voluntary powersaving management of the industrial world will greatly help overcome the
peak period of electricity consumption and establish the citizen power
plant.”
Executive vice-chairman of the KCCI, Lee, Dong-geun requested “the
industrial world to actively participate in power-saving activities despite
numerous difficulties they are going through in the hot weather, it
decreases the burden of production cost and benefits the national economy.”
Park, Tae-jin, chief of Institute for Sustainable Development of the KCCI
reported recent activities since the launching of Business Community Energy
Saving Campaign Headquarters (chief: Lee, Dong-geun executive vice-chairman
of the KCCI,) on November 30th, 2011. The institute established ‘50 powersaving acts for the industrial world’ and has promoted voluntary powersaving campaign. He also stated that the institute “will make an effort to
enhance the power-saving activities of the industrial community through
continuous electricity-saving campaigns during the peak period of
electricity consumption.”
At the event, businesses’ know-hows of electricity-saving management to
prevent the electricity crisis were shared.
Samsung Electro-Mechanics presented its experience and stated that their
“goal is to save 30billion won for energy expenses this year by
establishing a energy management system” and showed that they are
“implementing goals of daily electricity usage and analyzing priorities to
save energy for each work-site and department.”
Samsung Electro-Mechanics also said they are “planning to practice nearly
100 power-saving activities such as insulation of thermal equipment by
organizing a team exclusively dealing with power-saving activities at the
Busan, Sejong, and Suwon factories.” They also stated that they are
“expecting annual cost-savings to be near 6.8billion won through these
activities.”
LG Electronics also said that they are “managing the amount of energy used
by installing highly effective heating and cooling systems, refrigerating
show cases, and LED lights to increase the efficiency of heating and
cooling, cold storage, and lighting that consumes about 68% of the energy
used in convenient stores.”They also stated that “with these efforts,
about 185MW of electricity is being saved, which is one third of the
capacity of the 587MW of Kori Nuclear Power Plant station based on the peak
hour of electricity usage at three in the afternoon.
Hyundai Steel also said that they are “trying hard to accomplish the
reduction of energy usage in factories by increasing the scale of
investment for energy saving facilities every year and actively
participating in the electricity demand management system.”They also
stated that they will “take the lead in saving energy used by houses
through housing energy efficiency projects that repair houses of low income
families.”
At this event, 15 business and association officials were present including
Samsung Electro-Mechanics, Posco, SK Innovation, Samsung Electronics,
Hyundai Motor Company, Hyundai Steel, LG Electronics, SK Hynix Inc,
Woongjin Holdings, Hanhwa Chemical Corporation, OCI, S-OIL, Honam Petro
Chemical Corporation, STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co., LTD, Hyosung, Korea
Association of Machinery Industry, and Korea Electronics Association.