For almost three decades now, the production and consumption of green energy has been on the rising trend, and its demand has yielded promises of technologies aimed at reduction of other hazardous sources of energies (Lahlou, 2011). The availability of resources in the production of green energy has made it cheap for consumption, but with the increasing demand, the resources need to be managed (Greene, 2000). Research indicates that the key issues faced, in production and consumption of green energy, are resource mismanagement and scalability and timing. There is the need to find a method that can solve these issues to enhance growth and cost reduction in energy management. The best approach would be to identify the issues, find out an effective method of interpretation and analysis, and come up with an affordable solution.
Production of green energy lacks proper optimal timing in production; this is in terms of the output and costs. In most cases, the output is higher than the customer demands, and this leads to waste. To reduce the waste, most companies sell the energy at cheap prices. The production of green energy relies of construction and engineering equipment and the process of manufacturing. There lacks proper scaling of the required output and timing from the consumers demands (Greene, 2000). There also lacks timing from the competitors in the market; for instance, most of the green energy production is made when fossil fuel production is high. Most customers then opt to use the fossil energy and diminish the use of green energy. The results are reduction of prices and waste.
Within the green energy grid, there needs to be a balanced method between load and generation. This implies varying levels of energy production at different times depending on the demand. The best tool in solving this problem would be installation of advanced turbine technology and forecasting techniques that survey the market. There is also need for implementation of Power Distribution Units and automatic load shedding systems in homesteads and companies using common data centers. This will monitor power usage and improve on cost efficiency (Greene, 2000).
Unlike what is currently assumed money input in green energy is not the problem faced in production per se. The management of green energy heavily relies on resource management. Managing the sources of power and enhancing their effectiveness cuts down on the expenditure and running costs in the budget. Green power production constitutes a small percentage of energy production, but still accommodates the available volumes of resources and demand (Lahlou, 2011). The problem arises when these resources are mismanaged leading to wastage.
There lacks proper budgeting on the resources before production more resources are used leading to overproduction and power wastage. There needs to be a budgeting process in the control system that successfully plans, coordinates and controls the available system. An adoption of the zero based budget would work on this case. The basic of such a budget is to demand justification to the relevant authorities on every resource used in production. With a zero base budget, the green power management would achieve an optimal allocation of resources and reduce the experienced wastage and underutilization.
The implementation of this budget will assist in focusing on the available resources in a comprehensible analysis of customer demands. It will allow the management to plan and evaluate all resource inputs in a cost effective manner and operate in a single cost effective process (Lahlou, 2011).
Reference.
Greene, R. (2000). The 48 laws of power. London: Profile Books.
Lahlou, S. (2011). Case studies in sustainable consumption and production: Energy use and the built environment. Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf Pub.
