BUSINESS
samozřejmě jen o fotovoltaice, řada řešení žádné dotace
nepotřebuje, protože se vyplatí z povahy věci.
Například?
Energetický management. Když přijdu do firmy a zeptám
se jich, zda vědí, jak využívají energie a kde můžou uspořit,
tak je dost často odpovědí jen pokrčení ramen. Podnikatelé
vědí, kde uspořit ve svém hlavním byznyse, který znají velmi
dobře, ale jiné věci nechají běžet samospádem. Energetický
management je opatření, které zanalyzuje spotřebu energií ve firmě, udělá predikci, navrhne jednoduchá opatření,
která spotřebu sníží. Investice je v řádu nižších stovek tisíc
korun a návratnost je většinou rok a půl.
Proč ČEZ propaguje úspory energie, když by měl chtít
logicky co nejvyšší spotřebu?
Když to neuděláme my, udělá to někdo jiný. Navíc máme
zakázky i v zahraničí. Naše dceřiná společnost Domat
Control System, která se specializuje na řídící systémy
a energetický management, dělá byznys doslova po celém světě – v Nizozemsku, v Arménii, v Malajsii, v Japonsku, dodávala i komponenty pro metro v katarském
Dauhá, kde teď mohutně investují kvůli fotbalovému
šampionátu.
Děkuje za rozhovor.
Redakce magazínu.
Helping Municipalities
and Enterprise Reduce Costs
and Environmental Footprint
We spoke to Mgr. Kamil Čermák, CEO at ČEZ ESCO that ecological solutions do not
necessarily have to be expensive.
Five years ago, ČEZ founded ČEZ ESCO as its green
daughter company who will focus on modern ecological
energy solutions, energy savings, and the like. How do you
evaluate the five-year development and achievements of
the ČEZ ESCO holding?
That question should probably be aimed at our shareholder,
i.e. ČEZ. I am definitely sure that ČEZ chose the right
direction. It is obvious that Europe wants and struggles to go
green, which means great investments and great contracts
for us. The good thing is that ČEZ ESCO has gained a head
start but of course our competitors watch us carefully and
do their best to draw business away.
What exactly is your enterprise? When asked about
ecological energy, some people still recall photovoltaic
powerplants situated in fields.
See? That is exactly what we do not offer. We are engineers:
we make, deliver, maintain, and invent innovative smart
solutions. The only photovoltaic plants we make are those
to be installed on the roofs of companies and offices.
We have just finished a very nice plant in Prostějov, over
a hundred panels placed on the roof of the local sports
centre administered by the city council.
Why do businesses and municipalities purchase
photovoltaic plants? Are they not expensive?
Anybody who remembers the photovoltaic “boom” ten
years ago, would be surprised how much the prices of the
components have decreased. With a grant, the client may
expect a return starting in the seventh year. The panels can
operate at full performance for twenty years, and work
efficiently much longer, so the return is real. Moreover,
the price of electricity on the stock exchange is relatively
high and not expected to go down. Europe demands clear
plans for a coal-free future, and current emission allowance
is half the price of electricity. Photovoltaic plants bring
another bonus, which is the business or institution can show
being ecological, as anybody can tell from the roof. If you
produce your own green energy, you considerably reduce
your environmental footprint. More and more customers
are concerned about that and the general pressure for
minimizing the environmental footprint will grow. However,
ecological energy is not represented by photovoltaic power
plants only: a wide range of solutions does not need any
grants because the costs return naturally.
For example?
Energy management. When I visit an enterprise and ask
them whether they know how they use their energies and
where there is some room for savings, they very often have
only a vague idea at best. Companies often know many
ways to save and economize in their primary business which
they know very well; yet they let many related stay processes
as they are. Energy management is a measure for analysing
the energy requirements of the business, to calculate the
prediction, to design simple measures for reducing energy
consumption. The investment is in a few hundred thousand
crowns with a return in about a year and a half.
Why does ČEZ promote energy savings when higher
consumption will bring bigger profit?
If we don’t do it, somebody else will. Moreover, we also
have contractors from abroad. Our daughter company,
Domat Control System, specializing in control systems and
energy mnagement, operates all over the world and has
clients in the Netherlands, Armenia, Malaysia, and Japan,
and has delivered components for the underground in Text:
Doha, Qatar, where there are many massive investments redakce
because of the football championship.
Thank you for the interview.
-editorial-
Foto:
archiv ČEZ a.s.
www.cezesco.cz
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