Welcome back to my blog on the environment and energy efficiency. On this page I have highlited some main points to consider as part of your energy management plan. Hopefully this list will give you ideas to help formulate your own strategy.
Needs and expectations of efficient energy management in an organisation
Needs and expectations of efficient energy management in an organisation
What are your priorities and imperatives?
Development of organisational plan, goal setting
- To assess an organisation’s specific energy management needs
- To make savings in energy costs
- To adopt a formal, written energy management policy.
- To ensure that an organisation conforms to both organisational and govt environment requirements
- To devise an environment and energy action plan
- To develop consistencies of practice through all buildings in an organisation
- To encourage participation in environment and sustainability drives to avoid unnecessary expenditure, improve cost-effectiveness, productivity and working conditions
- To demonstrate a commitment to environmental protection
Monitoring
- To record all assets in a centralised database-e.g. property, vehicles , consumption such as electricity, gas, water, waste streams, gasoline, diesel along with CO2 emissions generated and liabilities
- To measure current energy usage
- To consolidate invoicing and ensure that the prompt payment is achieved.
- To provide regular, frequent and consistent energy monitoring to ensure any relevant highs and lows in consumption and costs are picked up
- To measure result of energy supply and efficiency, environment initiatives
- To consolidate invoicing and ensure that the prompt payment is achieved.
- To set reduction goals
- To track current projects expected to save energy, money, etc.
- To check consistency of site consumption and budgets
- To establish efficient controls for energy consumption
- To reduce internal time hours spent as accurate information is obtained quickly
- To measure the result of supply and energy efficiency initiatives
- To provide and analyse load profiles for energy efficiencies
- To track energy savings
Analysing-targeting
- To give impartial and accurate reporting, which enables management to assess and control energy
- To provide financial information that can be used to make strategic decisions regarding operating and environment activities
- To analyse and compare the correctness and trends of historical usage with present day usage and costs and identify areas that require attention.
- To improve efficiency and energy performance in a systematic way
- To set targets for improved efficient performance
- To develop consistencies of practice through all buildings in an organisation
- To assist in evaluating and prioritizing the implementation of new technologies
- To identify opportunities to improve energy performance
- To highlight opportunities for cost avoidance
- To prioritise actions taht affect the environment
- To see how a certain building compares to a portfolio or peer group.
- To assess a building's performance before it is bought or leased.
- To facilitate assessment of property value and marketing rental properties
- To establish a platform for continuous improvement
- To allow management to be proactive with confidence
- To set targets for improved efficient performance.
- To gain control over energy consumption by reviewing and improving purchasing and operating practices
- To benchmark against other like buildings to ascertain if they meet best practice
Reporting
- To enable understanding and communication of energy management throughout organisation by use of consistent indicators.
- To demonstrate conformance to both self and others
- To give quality control over all energy management
- To deliver energy expenditure management for all areas within an organisation
- To improve energy performance in a systematic way
- To demonstrate the management of energy as an indicator of overall management success
- To demonstrate success and publicise achievement of goals
- To be able to produce reporting for sustainability and environment purposes
- To earn a recognised environmental rating
- To gain recognition and celebrate success
- To make the business case for efficient investments.
- To present building performance to a potential buyer or lender.
- To encourage participation in environment & sustainability drives
- To enable easy delegation with accurate, meaningful reports
- To ensure informed decisions lead to bottom line results
- To improve teamwork by involving key personnel
- To provide quality control over all energy management
Well thats all for the time being I hope the above has given you some pointers on efficient practises that can be put into place to help achieve a good balance between practical environment considerations and energy efficiency.
