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Energy management systems. Requirements with guidance for use
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Standard Number
BS EN 16001:2009
Title
Energy management systems. Requirements with guidance for use
Publication Date
31 July 2009
Cross References
ANSI/MSE 2000:2005, 2005/32/EC, 2006/32/EC, DS 2403:2001, I.S. 393:2005, ISO 10012:2003, ISO 10015:1999, ISO 14001:2004, ISO 14004:2004, ISO 14040:2006, ISO 14044:2006, ISO 14050:2002, ISO 9000:2005, ISO 9001:2008, ISO 9004:2000, ISO/TR 10013:2001, ISO 19011:2002, SS 627750:2003, VDI 4602, BP X30-120:2006
International Relationships
EN 16001:2009 Identical
Supersedes Draft
08/30172145 DC
Descriptors
Energy technology, Management, Efficiency, Energy consumption, Energy conservation, Management techniques, Planning, Conformity, Quality assurance, Quality auditing, Environmental management, Documents, Measurement
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Overview
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BS EN 16001:2009 Energy management systems. Requirements with guidance for use
BS EN 16001 will help your business establish the systems and processes necessary to improve energy efficiency. This will help to save money and reduce greenhouse gas emissions through systematic management of energy.
BS EN 16001 specifies requirements for an energy management system to enable you to develop and implement a policy and objectives which take into account legal requirements and information about significant energy aspects. It is a useful document for all types and sizes of organizations and accommodates diverse geographical, cultural and social conditions. This standard applies to the activities under the control of an organization.
BS EN 16001 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 BS EN ISO 14001.
BS EN 16001 applies to any organization that wishes to:
a) Improve energy performance in a systematic wayb) Establish, implement, maintain and improve an energy management systemc) Ensure that it conforms with its stated energy policyd) Demonstrate such conformance to otherse) Seek certification of its energy management system by an external organizationf) Make a self-evaluation and self-declaration of conformance with the standard.
Who should use BS EN 16001?
Energy and facilities managers
Environment officers and managers
Energy engineers
Energy consultants
Finance directors
Policy developers and managers
Architects and surveyors
Energy assessors
CEOs and MDs of smaller organizations.
Contents of BS EN 16001:
Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Terms and definitions
3 Energy management system requirements
3.1 General requirements
3.2 Energy policy
3.3 Planning
3.3.1 Identification and review of energy aspects
3.3.2 Legal obligations and other requirements
3.3.3 Energy objectives, targets and programme(s)
3.4 Implementation and operation
3.4.1 Resources, roles, responsibility and authority
3.4.2 Awareness, training and competence
3.4.3 Communication
3.4.4 Energy management system documentation
3.4.5 Control of documents
3.4.6 Operational control
3.5 Checking
3.5.1 Monitoring and measurement
3.5.2 Evaluation of compliance
3.5.3 Nonconformity, corrective action and preventive action
3.5.4 Control of records
3.5.5 Internal audit of the energy management system
3.6 Review of the energy management system by top management
3.6.1 General
3.6.2 Inputs to management review
3.6.3 Outputs from management review
Annex A (informative) Guidance on the use of this European standard
A.1 General requirements
A.2 Energy policy
A.3 Planning
A.3.1 Identification and review of energy aspects
A.3.2 Legal obligations and other requirements
A.3.3 Energy objectives, targets and programme(s)
A.4 Implementation and operation
A.4.1 Resources, roles, responsibility and authority
A.4.2 Awareness, training and competence
A.4.3 Communication
A.4.4 Energy management system documentation
A.4.5 Control of documents
A.4.6 Operational control
A.5 Checking
A.5.1 Monitoring and measurement
A.5.2 Evaluation of compliance
A.5.3 Nonconformity, corrective action and preventive action
A.5.4 Control of records
A.5.5 Internal audit of the energy management system
A.6 Review of the energy management system by top management
Bibliography
Energy Management Principles and Practice: A Companion to BS EN 16001:2009
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Friday, January 1, 2010
ENERGY MANAGEMENT
Effective energy management is a crucial issue for the success of any business. For many, the answer is an Energy Management System (EnMS) – a framework for the systematic management of energy. As well as enhancing energy efficiency, an EnMS can cut costs and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions providing you with a competitive advantage.
EN 16001 represents the latest best practice in energy management building upon existing national standards and initiatives. The standard specifies the requirements for an EnMS to enable your organization to develop and implement a policy, identify significant areas of energy consumption and target energy reductions.
Feature & benefits
· Reduce costs
· Improve business performance
· Engage top management
· Reduce your GHG emissions
· Formalise energy policy and objectives
· Integrate your management systems
· Secure energy supply
· Drive innovation
· Flexible and scalable
How can we help?
Assessment and certification
Our assessment capabilities are globally recognized for providing a value-added service while our assessors are qualified professionals with relevant product and industry expertise. We also offer integrated assessments with other management system standards, such as ISO 9001 and ISO 14001, to help reduce the burden of multiple assessments.
Benefits of certification
• Continual improvement
• Enhance reputation
• Improve brand image
• Differentiate from competition
• Enhance competitiveness
• Improve staff motivation and retention
EN 16001 will help you establish the systems and processes necessary to improve energy efficiency leading to reductions in
cost and greenhouse gas emissions through the systematic management of energy.
EnMS Training Courses
Introducing Energy Management
This course provides a general understanding of the concepts of an energy management system (EnMS) based on EN 16001:2009. Students will learn how an effective EnMS can help their organization improve its energy efficiency, reduce costs, lower greenhouse gas emissions.
Implementing Energy Management
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
· Build and establish an Energy management system and culture
· Understand the requirement of Energy Management system EN 16001
· Establish techniques for the implementation process
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Implement an energy monitoring plan and energy analysis
· Establish and monitor energy performance indicators
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Friday, September 4, 2009
HURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2009
Energy Management – A priority call to the Contemporary Corporate
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.
Contd......
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Monday, August 31, 2009
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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Sunday, August 30, 2009
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.
- 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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
- 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.
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