Introduction:
Our center (Center for Information and Technological Management, CIGET Cienfuegos) is a provincial benchmark for Scientific-Technical Information and Technological Management. The group of accredited Technology Management consultants took on the task of linking the knowledge they had at the center through the experience acquired on the subject of Energy Management with the aim of completing the knowledge cycle but expanding it to other companies in the territory., fundamentally those mainly committed to energy management and the environment.
Knowledge Management is a concept applied in organizations. It has the purpose of transferring knowledge from the place where it is generated to the place where it is going to be used (BA Fuentes, 2010) and involves the development of the necessary competences within organizations to share and use it among its members, thus as to value and assimilate it if it is outside of these.
There are two types of knowledge: tacit and explicit, the first is related to the practical knowledge that people have and that has not been taken in writing on paper and the second is related to the knowledge that has been brought to paper, which is already written in the form of reports, manuals, technologies, etc.
In an organization, for knowledge to flow, it must meet the life cycle shown in the following figure:
Life cycle - Knowledge information
Goals:
- Manage tacit and explicit knowledge on Energy Management for companies in the territory. Provide knowledge on energy management that allows introducing future improvements for the energy and environmental performance of an organization. Determine evaluation criteria for energy and environmental performance in an organization.
DEVELOPING
Taking into account that Knowledge Management is a process of continuously managing knowledge of all kinds to satisfy present and future needs and allows developing new opportunities, business organizations in our country today, more than ever, are in need of acquiring new knowledge also in Energy Management subject.
Energy Management is understood as the set of activities of administration and managerial function that gives the entity the aptitude to efficiently satisfy its energy needs so that the organization works according to sustainable development and adaptation to climate change.
This work shows the need to resort to Energy Management in companies as a way to determine and evaluate the energy performance of an organization through Knowledge Management.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
The developed technology is a methodological instrument that gathers the information of norms, guides, resolutions, calculation methodologies, as well as publications, all in matters of energy management, which allows the entity's specialists to have the basic elements of knowledge for evaluate the organization's behavior regarding energy performance.
Based on the Cuban legislation (DL - 281) where energy management is involved as a key element in Business Improvement, as a fundamental way to perfect the NEW NATIONAL ECONOMIC MODEL, also considering the MEP strategy, in particular the DPEP, which He asks us to advise and accompany the companies in the territory to train their energy, in addition to the issuance by ONN of the NC ISO 50001/2011, is that we designed a knowledge management program in energy with 3 modules:
Topic No.1. Introductory:
1.1 Energy. Concepts and definitions.
1.2 Energy Management. SGEn model.
1.3 Energy and Environment. Sustainable Energy Development
1.4 Energy efficiency and business competitiveness
1.5 General overview of energy management in Cuba and in Cienfuegos.
Topic No. 2. Energy Management System. Interpretation of the requirements of NC ISO 50001/2011
2.1 General requirements
2.2 Management responsibility
2.3 Energy Policy
2.4 Energy planning
2.5 Implementation and operation
2.6 Verification
2.7 Management review
Topic No. 3. Energy Review. Energy baseline:
3.1 Concepts and definitions.
3.2 Energy planning.
3.3 Energy indicators
3.4 Energy baseline
3.5 Energy diagnostics.
3.5.1 Methodology for carrying out energy diagnostics.
This knowledge was provided through specialized training to specialists who attend to this subject in different entities of the province.
RESULTS:
From the 4th quarter of 2013 until the end of 2017, a group of territorial entities in coordination with CIGET and DPEP, in particular the energy department, requested the ENERGY MANAGEMENT course, with 25 specialists from the territory passing the same course.
The economic contribution for the implementation of Knowledge Management on Energy Management was given during this period of an entry into CIGET in MN.
The Social Impact generated by this work on Knowledge Management in the field of energy management is aimed at raising awareness among decision-makers and specialists related to this activity, introducing them to their tacit and explicit knowledge of the need to incorporate the energy dimension in Business Management.
The Environmental Impact that this work represented is linked to the saving of energy carriers, improving their energy performance and correspondingly that of the companies that carried out the strategies, by establishing a plan of energy saving measures in the first instance and starting to design their SGEn itself.
CONCLUSIONS:
- Despite the efforts that the authorities of the territory and the country are making for energy education in technicians and entrepreneurs, it is evident that there is still a very low level of knowledge in the field of Energy Management. The specialists who received this training are carriers of the Knowledge that multiplies in its companies to all the workers in each one of them. CIGET has a new training service, design, implementation of SGEn that allows significant income for the economy of the center.
recommendations
- This type of research can be carried out with other topics within the Technological Management that are part of the corporate purpose of our Institution. Prepare new training on the topics that specialists need based on feedback results for the best performance in their companies. Establish as a consulting service for the Implementation of an Energy Education Program in companies. Generalize this experience in the IDIGT national CIGET network.
References
- Energy Management System. Interpretation of the requirements of NC ISO 50001/2011. BUSINESS ENERGY MANAGEMENT. Collective of Authors. Center for Energy and Environment Studies. University of Cienfuegos. Under the Editing of Aníbal E. Borroto Nordelo.
