As businessmen, administrators or entrepreneurs within our company, we constantly ensure that the resources are always available to cover the needs and we are in search of alternatives to be more efficient, produce / sell more and at the same time spend less. In the field of electricity consumption, many options are offered, ranging from the miraculous equipment that by connecting to our network begins to save energy (be careful with these types of offers!), To the possibility of producing our own energy with solar panels.
When this option of producing our own energy is analyzed, it begins by investigating a little more that its implementation and the possible associated costs imply, and in many cases people simply discard this, without giving themselves the opportunity to do a feasibility study of the implementation project.
For people or companies that do allow themselves the opportunity to analyze feasibility, it is necessary to seek advice from a recognized and reputable company, with verifiable success stories and, most important of all, that offer comprehensive energy efficiency solutions. The reason is very simple, of course it is apart from reducing the risks of the implementation, because adequate and honest advice is essential. We must never forget that the objective of these companies is to sell solar power generation systems.
And this is where the trick comes in. The more energy we require, the larger and more expensive is the solar electricity generation system and therefore the greater the investment amount, which is why the project will most likely become unviable.
That is why we must be aware that we must comply with a series of previous steps before implementing a system of these. Each case and commercial or industrial operation has its peculiarities, but there are definitely elements in common that we can mention such as the air conditioning systems (cooling or heating), the lighting systems, the thermal insulation materials and many others specific to the particularity of the case.. There are many alternatives that are easy to implement (time, effort and reduced impact on operations), cheaper and with short-term results, not to mention management systems that only involve changing the way we do things to be more efficient in the use of resources (in this case energy).
Es por eso que un sistema de generación eléctrica por energía solar (paneles solares) es, a mi parecer, el último eslabón de la cadena de eficiencia y sustentabilidad en una empresa, siempre y cuando se tenga en consideración como una opción de alimentación alterna y no por una necesidad de continuidad operativa, difícil acceso a la red de distribución eléctrica o cualquier otra razón que impere la necesidad de contar con esta opción.
So will solar panels be an option?.- We will only know for sure when we have optimized our systems and processes that involve electricity consumption. Or if we do not want to wait, we can establish an efficiency management system and define a predictive roadmap that gives us scientific bases to determine it. Of which I will write in greater detail on another occasion. In any case, technology is within our reach and as in everything, it will only depend on how interested and how much effort and planning we really dedicate to this matter.
