Energy Management – A priority call to the Contemporary Corporate

HURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Energy Management – A priority call to the Contemporary Corporate

This week, I had a chance to get introduced to the very new energy management standard - BS EN 16001:2009 Energy Management Systems - Requirements with guidance for use. This standard has been published on 31st July 2009.

BS EN 16001 represents the latest best practices in energy management building upon existing national standards and initiatives. The standard specifies the requirements for an EnMS to enable an organization to develop and implement a policy, identify significant areas of energy consumption and target energy reductions.

Introduction of this standard is quite significant in the present global scenario. Let me share my views:

1. Energy now a day has become so important to an organisation as well as to the society; it was much needed to pay some more attention towards it. Though organisations were reducing energy through their own cost cutting initiatives or under ISO 14001, which was not really a focused approach. Two very vital resources - Energy and Water was getting lost within the paradigm of pollution. The EnMS will rightly serve the purpose to prioritize energy on the corporate agenda.

2. Organisations were conducting Energy Audits – few for improvement and many to comply with legal requirement. The reports could not find a place on the CEO’s agenda & get dumped on the EHS manager’s table. Now at least Energy audit will find some relevance and the isolation will hopefully converted to Plan – Do - Check – Act of improvement.

3. Organisations who are working towards Green House Gas emission reduction can relate their activities in a more harmonized way with Energy Management System.

4. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is on a top priority agenda of many corporate. Certification to EnMS will strengthen the organization’s claim of Energy Management in their Sustainability Reporting.

5. Last but not the least, it paves the way to the forthcoming ISO 50001 on Energy Management which is expected to launch during December 2010.

Features:

Key features of the standard include:

1. The need for an Energy Policy that shall be a statement of commitment towards achieving improved energy performance.

2. The need to identify and review Energy Aspects; elements of an organisation's operation that can affect energy use.

3. The need to produce Energy Objectives and Targets, which it will aim to achieve through use of Energy Management Programs.

Energy management encompasses a full range of issues, including those with strategic and competitive implications.

Demonstration of successful implementation of this Standard can be used by an organisation to assure interested parties that an appropriate energy management system is in place.

The standard is meant to help organizations save on energy costs and reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

It is intended to apply to all types and sizes of organizations and to accommodate diverse geographical, cultural and social conditions. This standard applies to the activities under the control of an organization. This standard for energy management systems can be used independently or integrated with any other management system. To facilitate its use, the structure of this standard is similar to the structure of ISO 14001.

Benefits

The overall aim of this European standard is to help organizations establish the systems and processes necessary to improve energy efficiency. This should lead to reductions in cost and greenhouse gas emissions through systematic management of energy. This standard specifies requirements for an energy management system to enable an organization to develop and implement a policy and objectives which take into account legal requirements and information about significant energy aspects.

Who can go for it?

BS EN 16001 applies to any organization that wishes to:

a) Improve energy performance in a systematic way

b) Establish, implement, maintain and improve an energy management system

c) Ensure that it conforms with its stated energy policy

d) Demonstrate such conformance to others

e) Seek certification of its energy management system by an external organization

f) Make a self-evaluation and self-declaration of conformance with the standard

Contents:

BS EN 16001 is based on a methodology known as plan-do-check-act. The requirements necessary to implement the standard include:

Plan: Identify energy aspects and legal obligations; establish energy objectives and targets.

Do: Assign resources and responsibilities; raise organizational awareness and provide training; communicate internally and externally; establish documentation; implement operational controls.

Check: Establish the monitoring of energy management programs; evaluate compliance with legal obligations; identify and manage non-conformance; control records; carry out internal audits of the energy management system.

Act: Review of energy management systems by management resulting in potential changes.

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energy consumption patterns worldwide

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energy management by Industry

Energy Management Standards and Industrial Energy Efficiency

Energy management seeks to influence how energy is managed in industry, which is the single greatest barrier to realizing a potential energy efficiency improvement of 20% or more over the next 15 years. The challenge is to provide a business- friendly mechanism for applying the same types of management practices to energy that it already applies to other resources such as labor and materials.

Industry requires standardization to function and prosper; an energy management standard simply builds on management best practices already well-known to many industrial facilities. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has recognized this opportunity by making energy management one of its top five global priorities through the initiation of work on ISO 50001- Energy management. ISO 50001: Energy Management seeks to provide the same culture of continuous improvement that has been successfully applied by industrial firms to quality and safety practices. ISO 50001 has the potential to become a global trade catalyst for industrial energy efficiency in the same way that ISO 9001 has for quality. The reason lies in the fact that industrial energy management makes good economic sense, leading to cost reduction and improved reliability, thereby contributing to greater productivity and improved competitiveness.

LBNL researcher, Aimee McKane, serves as Vice-Chair of the US Technical Advisory Group to the ISO Project Committee 242, the ISO body charged with developing ISO 50001 under leadership from the U.S. and Brazil. The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)has been a primary driver in encouraging an international focus on industrial energy management. UNIDO hosted an Experts Group meeting in March 2007 that also produced anissues paper on national energy management standards already in use. UNIDO and the Standardization Administration of China hosted a Working Group meeting in April 2008 to accelerate work toward a harmonized standard. Researchers from LBNL and Georgia Institute of Technology conduct detailed research on energy management standards for this meeting.

Although there are examples of large multi-national corporations who have initiated their own energy management programs, most companies are simply not able to implement an energy management program without technical assistance. The Industrial Standards Framework is a fully-developed approach based on years of experience in developing training programs and tools to encourage greater motor system energy efficiency. At the core of the Framework is ISO 50001.

For more information on industrial energy management and enabling policies, see Policies for Promoting Industrial Energy Efficiency in Developing Countries and Transition Economies.

LBNL researchers are also working with the U.S. Department of Energy and a public/private partnership named Superior Energy Performance to design a program to certify U.S. industrial plants for energy efficiency. This program, now in the pilot phase, will be launched nationally in early 2010. The central element of the program is the current national energy management standard, ANSI Management System for Energy 2000:2008, to be replaced by ISO 50001 when it becomes available in early 2011.

See also: Industrial System Optimization

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benefits of certification to EN16000

Benefits of EN 16001 Certification

• Continual improvement
  Embed energy management in your organization to drive cost savings, efficiency gains and energy performance year after year
• Enhance reputation
  Demonstrate, with early voluntary action, your organization’s commitment to cut energy consumption and carbon emissions to shareholders, customers, and employees
• Improve your brand image
  Demonstrate your organization’s environmental credentials
• Differentiate from competition
  Prove that your organization takes its environmental impact seriously, and benchmark against the competition in your supply chain
• Enhance your competitiveness
  Increase your available range of new business opportunities, meet supply chain needs and customer’s contractual requirements
• Improve staff motivation and retention
  Involve your staff in devising and implementing energy conservation plans, giving them the ability to “make a difference” as well as benefiting from their business insight

Steps to EN 16001 Certification

If you’re new to BSI, don’t worry – the certification process is very simple.

1. Make contact
   Get in touch and tell us what you need, so we can sort out the best services for you. We’ll then give you a proposal detailing the cost and time involved.
2. Meet your assessment team
   We’ll assign you an assessor, who will be your main point of contact through the process – and beyond. They’ll have an excellent understanding of your business area and will support you as you move forward to the assessment and certification of your EnMS.
3. Consider EN 16001 training
   Whether you’re seeking to implement a management system or would like to increase your general awareness of the standard, there are a range of workshops, seminars and training courses available. Read more about EN 16001 Energy Management training.
4. Review and assessment
   We’ll do a desktop review of your management system against the requirements of EN 16001, and identify any omissions or weaknesses that need resolving before formal assessment. Once these have been addressed, we’ll conduct a full on-site assessment.
5. EN 16001 Certification and beyond
   Once the assessment has been successfully completed, we’ll issue a certificate of registration, clearly explaining the scope of your management system. The certificate is valid for three years, and your assessor will visit you regularly to help you make sure you remain compliant, and support you in the continual improvement of your systems.

Next Step

new ISO standard for Energy Management

ISO launches project committee to develop international standard for energy management

2008-03-27

ISO has just approved the creation of a project committee mandated to develop an international standard on energy management.

The standard will provide all types of organizations and companies a practical and widely recognized approach to increase energy efficiency, reduce costs and improve their environmental performance by addressing both the technical and management aspects of rational energy use. The standard is intended to be broadly applicable to various sectors of national economies, including utility, manufacturing, commercial building, general commerce, and transportation sectors, and therefore, could have influence on as much as 60 % of the world’s energy demand.

ISO Secretary-General Alan Bryden commented: “The urgency to reduce GHG emissions, the reality of higher prices from reduced availability of fossil fuels, and the need to promote energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy sources, provide a strong rationale for developing this new standard building on the most advanced best practices and existing national or regional standards”.

Following the successful examples of the ISO 9000 series on quality management and the ISO 14000 series on environmental management, the project committee ISO/PC 242, Energy management, will consider the development of a standard containing relevant terms and definitions and providing management system requirements together with guidance for use, implementation, measurement and metrics.

The standard will be based on the continual improvement and Plan-Do-Check-Act approach utilized in ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 to provide compatibility and integration opportunities.

Among the main benefits of the future standard are that it will:

• provide organizations and companies (utilities, manufacturers, commerce, buildings, transportation, both private and public) with a well-recognized framework for integrating energy efficiency into their management practices
• offer organizations with operations in more than one country a single, harmonized standard for implementation across the organization
• provide a logical and consistent methodology for identifying and implementing improvements that may contribute to a continual increase in energy efficiency across facilities
• assist organizations to better utilize existing energy consuming assets, thus reducing costs and/or expanding capacity
• offer guidance on benchmarking, measuring, documenting, and reporting energy intensity improvements and their projected impact on reductions in GHG emissions
• create transparency and facilitate communication on the management of energy, promote energy management best practices, thus reinforcing the value of good energy management behaviours
• assist facilities in evaluating and prioritizing the implementation of new energy-efficient technologies
• provide a framework for organizations to encourage suppliers to better manage their energy, thus promoting energy efficiency throughout the supply chain
• facilitate the use of energy management as a component of GHG emission reduction projects.

The secretariat of ISO/PC 242 will be held jointly by the ISO members for the United States and for Brazil: ANSI (American National Standardization Institute) and ABNT (Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas).

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FAQs on Energy Management

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