• Shankara Naik
• S B Mallur
• Virupaxi Bagodi
• K.V.Arun
• Laxmana Naik L

The growing demand for the agricultural implements in the recent past has attracted many entrepreneurs to up SMEs for the fabrication of the required items. Tractor trailer and other agricultural implements fabrication industry is one of the prominent SME. Indian population and the per capita electrical energy consumption are on the rise. This has created lot of pressure on energy demand and hence, energy generation. Energy generation requires energy sources and capacity addition. Due to limitations, India to cater to the increasing demand has resorted to purchasing electrical energy from other countries. This has additional burden on the BoP. One of the approaches to reduce this burden is to identify the sources of energy loss and minimise. In energy management literature this is addressed as energy auditing. In the present study, energy auditing has been conducted in seven industries pertaining to the fabrication of agricultural implements and tractor trailers, located in Haveri, district head quarter in Karnataka State. The survey has been made over a period of 4 months. The detailed data acquisition, analysis and the focused energy conservation opportunities have revealed that the energy savings up to 30% to 40% can be achieved.

Balance of Payments (BOP), Energy consumption SMEs, energy audit, possible energy saving, identifies the waste.

"Energy management in agricultural implements and tractor trailer industry", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.537-542, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904I89.pdf

"Energy management in agricultural implements and tractor trailer industry", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp537-542, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904I89.pdf