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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