Getting started – Light

Start with your preliminary activities in order to understand your company’s energy situation and to recognize the needs for implementation of energy management into your company structure and culture. Filling out the business case is one of your first tasks, which results are the 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.

After the business case you should elaborate a commitment to the energy management, possibly combined with an energy policy statement. The template of company commitment (for the introduction text click here) gives you an idea how this document could look like.

The introduction to an energy management implementation project plan and a simple energy management implementation model (for the full EMIM version 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:

In case you are looking directly for the key tools of energy management, you should have a look at the following ones:

1. Self-assessment checklist - gives you the actual level of your energy management just by answering 7 questions
2. 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.
3. Measure list – overview of energy efficiency measures to be taken, separated into horizontal measure lists and industry-specific measure lists
4. 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
5. Benchmarking – compare your energy consumption with companies in your own sector.

In the figure below the major actions within the simple energy management implementation model (EMIM) are listed with the key tools shown in bold.