Getting started
To go systematically through the energy
management tool, it is best to start filling out the business case. This is
one of your first tasks that learns you to understand
your companies energy situation and to recognize the needs for implementation
of energy management in your company.
The outcomes of the business case result in an overview of essential
basic company data and indicators and identification of other influences
defining the company decisions. These can be used to present the top management
the importance of energy management.
It is important and interesting to find out the
starting level of energy management. Even if you do not have implemented an
energy management system you may have already been using different parts of
such a system. The self assessment checklist gives you the actual
level of your energy management just by answering 7 questions.
When
filling in the self assessment checklist, you will get to know the level of
energy management in your company. Based on the outcome of the questionnaire
for your company, you have the possibility to go through the more advanced (standard)
or simplified (light) version of EMIM.
For the
standard version, you
can continue below.
For the
light version of EMIM, please click here.
After the business case and self assessment
checklist you should elaborate a commitment to the energy management. The template of company commitment (for
the introduction text click here) gives you an idea how this
document could look like.
Furthermore the description of the roles
and responsibilities shows you the first steps of how to
organise the staff who will work on the energy management. Finally the introduction
to an energy management implementation project plan and the
energy management implementation model
(for the introduction text click here) will show
you the way for a successful planning and running of the energy management
implementation process.
In case that the basic energy situation of your
company is already well known to you and you are looking directly for specific
tools, the following ones may be of particular importance:
- Self-assessment checklist - gives you the actual level
of your energy management just by answering 7 questions
- Energy bookkeeping – this is a system to record,
analyse ands report energy consumption and costs on a regular basis, one of
the first steps towards reducing energy costs.
- Monitoring and Targeting (M&T) – learns you how to monitor energy consumption on a
detailed (process) level and evaluate the companies energy consumption
- Measure list – overview of energy
efficiency measures to be taken, separated into horizontal measure lists and
industry-specific measure lists
- Energy action plan – a proposal of how to develop
such an action plan with objectives and actions to be taken in a certain
period of time
- Benchmarking – compare your energy
consumption with companies in your own sector.
In the
figure below the major actions within the energy
management implementation model (EMIM) are listed with the key tools shown
in bold.
