Executive Summary The Objective of this report is to practice the analysis of possible scales and scopes of an engineering organization and to recommend and suggest ways to utilize them fully. The organization chosen for the analysis Ceylon Electricity Board (referred to as CEB hereafter), which is the Sri Lankan government organization for generation, transmission and distribution of electricity for local industrial and domestic consumption. Following a general introduction to the services by the organization and the structure of it and market competencies, the economies of scale and scope are discussed and finally a few suggestions are made to utilize them for the improvement of the organization. 1. Introduction to the Organization Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) is the government body of Sri Lanka for generation, transmission and distribution of electricity for the local industrial and domestic consumption. Most of the electric power related needs and demands of the nations are fulfilled by CEB, and it has vast coverage of service in all over the country, cities, villages and industries. The organization is mainly an engineering organization and its product is service type. The service and the aim of the organization are obvious from the vision and mission statements of the organization. Vision statement: “To provide high quality service to all its consumers” Mission statement: “To provide reliable quality electrical power to the entire nation at internationally competitive prices effectively and efficiently through a meaningful partnership with skilled and motivated employees using appropriate state-of-the-art technology for the socio-economic development of the country in an economically sustainable manner while meeting acceptable environment standards and a satisfactory rate of return on investments” Ceylon Electricity Board was formed under act of No of 17 of 1969. The structure of CEB is highly dependent on the government and its decisions passed. Government intervention is at a higher degree that although the highest officials such as the Chief Executive Officer make suggestions on the management of power systems, they have to be approved by the government to be implemented. CEB is distributed throughout the whole island for better interaction with consumers and monitoring of field. The branches are divided into provincial and are offices. The performance in planning and implementation of CEB still has chances to be improved. The electrification of total Sri Lanka population is only 55% and the rest (45% of population) are in darkness. It seems to be quite unsuccessful and unfair sometimes when considering rural off-grid villages. On other hand, the consumption of electricity presently requires a higher cost compared to the rest of the world, due to inefficiency in planning, management, performance, design of power systems and implementation.
be sufficient to keep pace with increasing demand of the electrical energy of the world.
33). This approach can be the closest practice to finding a permanent solution. Many of the opportunities for Cenovus Energy is controlled by the ultimate decision of AER and other government bodies. With the use of private politics, environmental activist has been able to shape a voice for the environment. Cenovus has created diverse levels of innovation to express their responding solution.
As the global population increases exponentially, having passed six billion in 1999, the world population is expected to be 8.9 billion by the year 2050. The worlds energy consumption will increase by an estimated 54 percent by 2025. Energy demand in the industrialized world is projected to grow 1.2 percent per year. Energy is a critical component of sustained economic growth and improved standards of living. One of the major requirements for sustaining human progress is an adequate source of energy. As the world’s technological enhancements and standards of living improve, so too does their appetite for electricity.
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Second, the reliability of electricity was compromised throughout many parts of our state, affecting both residential and business sectors. On June 14, 2000, about 100,000 customers were blacked out in San Francisco Bay Area (Kahn and Lynch 9-10). According to Lorenco Goncalves, the CEO of California steel industries, “We were interrupted 14 times this month [January] compared to not once from 1987 to 1998. So many other industries depend on what we send them…If they can’t depend on my products, they will [buy them] elsewhere” (Wood and Sherer). These uncertain interruptions are causing a lot of damage in our economy.
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