Accessing top-three to our website has been shared by Japan-USA-Canada-Great Britain. However since June, India has become constant top-three nation. We feel a strong wave on energy management activities in India, and so we would like to highlight the situation. We asked the registered viewers from india to provide information, and we can summarize the inputs as follows:

The awareness and eagerness to adopt energy management system (EnMS) are very intense in the present year 2012, the launch of ISO 50001 being a timely follow wind.
Like other nation Indian industries too faces economic hurdles. Top management of companies and Government focusses energy management to be the positive effect to turn around the economic stagnation. Government of India enacted Energy conservation Act 2001 amendment 2010 to provide legal framework and the institutional arrangement for enhancing energy efficiency.

This act led to the creation of Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE)as the nodal agency in the centre and state level to implement the provisions of Act. The missions of BEE is to develop policies and strategies based on self regulation and market principles with the goal of reducing energy intensity of the Indian economy. They have committed to generate more energy managers and energy auditors. They are conducting training and free distributing free e-books/guidebooks on energy management through their website.
Additionally, BEE has enacted PAT( Perform. Achieve and Trade) in march 31st 2012, where in 8 industry sectors (Govt. has excluded Railways for the timebeing) have been identified and plant wise Sp. energy norms set, which they have to achieve in 3 years.
After 3 years, the energy savings will be verified by accredited energy auditor(s)and if saving are more they will be awarded "Energy saving certificates (ESC)" which is a market based instrument and can be sold to less energy efficient industries. Plants who do not achieve their targets will purchase these certificates, whose price is market driven.
To a large extent, the high tariff structure of state owned power companies is a biggest motivator for energy management. In addition to above, the designated consumers and power distribution companies have to comply to Renewable Purchase Obligations (RPOs) which are mandated by the government; The power distribution companies and retail sellers are mandated to buy a specified percentage of renewable power. This motivates them to invest in wind mills / solar power. (These provisions are mandated through The Electricity Act, 2003)
Besides manufacturing units, Green Building certification is also getting popular. According to Energy conservation Building Code anycommercial building with connected load of 120KVA/ 100 KW has to be built according to ECBC. LEED certification/ Gruha( Indian equivalent) are used. India is well known for Software companies. Their new buildings are designed and certified for them. Many companies I know go for gold certification.

Many of these companies are adopting ISO 50001 as one of the method of acheive targets. PAT has been notiifed only for 9 manufacturing sectors and more sectors are expected to be added in future. So hundreds of plants will have to undertake energy saving activities.
Leading companies have already started the implementation processes and around 20 may be already certified. However, the supply chain pressures are not as high as it was for Quality; hence It can be said that it is slowly picking up.
Many say they could see the real top management commitment in ISO 50001. They commented "The moment we started our activities on ISO50001, we come to know many important parameters ,which have been contributed to total expenditures of the company without major investment. Our eyes are bright now we have confident that we can be competitive in future because we have found many opportunities to control and improve our energy performance. Now all the industries in India are working on ISO50001 certification."

There seem to be two majour issues: one is energy management methodology and the other is to develop awareness with non-designated industrial sectors.
The first issue is lack of technical guidance, and lack of understanding among most industries that 20-30% energy saving can be achieved by simple common sense approaches through a proper energy management.
The second issue is lack of holistic approaches in energy management. In other words the government schemes have not reached the bottom of the pyramid amongst the non-designated industrial sectors. Many companies are still in wait and watch mode. The first issue provides opportunity for energy management professionals to be more active, and second issue can be interpreted as India still has a lot of potential for sustainability business development.

EnMS-Doc is now very much convinced and appreciate to have a lot of traffic from India. We would like to extend our appreciation to Mr. Ramaiah Saravanan, Mr. Muthiah Elavarasan, Mr.Radhakrishnan Neelakantan and many others who provided valuable information. Special thanks go to Mr.Ramaiah Saravanan for contributing the title of this article "India lights on Energy Management"

On 31st August, The Manufacturers’Association for Information Technology (MAIT), the apex body representing India’s ICT hardware, training and R&D services sectors organised the Seminar in Delhi on Green IT Best Practices in association with HIDA (the Overseas Human Resources and Industry Development Association) of Japan, GIPC (Green IT Promotion Council), METI (Ministry of Economy Trade & Industry) and Petroleum Conservation Research Association (PCRA). The guidebook was distributed during the seminar by GIPC representatives.

The guidebook is to provide useful information and examples of various applications related to the energy performance improvement technique called "RENKEI control".

The Japanese word "RENKEI" literally translated as "cooperation or coordination" which suggests that "RENKEI control" is to pursue energy efficiency optimisation with two or more elements interacting within one another to provide the most efficient and effective result from the control. The RENKEI control concept is a consolidation of a long time energy efficiency experience and accumulated knowledge in Japan with a smart utilisation of “Green IT” concept.
The “Green IT” concept provides energy users with opportunities to achieve energy performance improvement without having to go through a major renewal or significant changes in existing facilities. The RENKEI control which is an integral part of energy management operation in this guidebook closely follows the recently focused guidelines such as ISO 50001 International Standard for energy management system and the guideline of IEC for automation controls for energy efficiency.
The RENKEI control concept was developed by the JEITA Control & Energy Management Committee WG1 (Energy Management working group) members compiling their intellect and know-how with immeasurable effort. The guidebook of the japanese version was published in January this year. The guidebook in English was produced under the METI Commissioned Project "Support for IT utilization aimed at fostering a knowledge economy in Asia (promoting Green IT)" by GIPC of JEITA, and completed in August in time for the introduction in India.
As the RENKEI control aims to provide the ultimate solution for energy performance improvement under the energy management operation, it was a great honour for EnMS-Doc to have taken part in the translation of the guidebook comissioned by GIPC.

The full content can be downloaded from the JEITA or GIPC websites.