Our world is currently facing two particularly important trends: rising fossil fuel prices and concerns about climate change. Both create strong incentives for energy conservation.The World Business Council for Sustainable Development identified buildings as one of the five main energy users, where “mega-trends” are needed to transform energy efficiency. Buildings account for 40 percent of primary energy in most countries and consumption is rising. The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that for buildings, current trends in energy demand will stimulate approximately half the energy supply investments through 2030.Building Energy Management Systems (BEMS) have the ability to save energy and improve productivity by creating a comfortable working environment. BEMS optimization create improves energy management; however, regular building audits and fine tuning are necessary to ensure the energy management is maintained.
Energy Management and Building
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Introduction to Energy Management System
Introduction to Energy Management System
What is an Energy Management System
What is an Energy Management System
An energy management system is the means of controlling and reducing a building’s energy consumption which enables owners and operators to understand their organisation’s energy use and provide for:
1. Reduce costings
2. Meet legal obligations
3. Gain senior management support and allocation of resources
4. Develop energy policies and strategies
5. Work to formalise energy management and integrate it throughout an organisation
Why does good energy management matters
Why does good energy management matters
Carbon dioxide emission from energy will dominate total greenhouse gas emission for most organisations, so energy management is a crucial component of broader carbon management.
Similarly, carbon management is a crucial aspect of an organisation’s overall environmental policy.
Compliance with legal requirements
The primary regulatory schemes that aim to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from energy use require:
• accurate energy and emissions data with auditable evidence trails
• effective management systems for data handling and other required information
• demonstration of effective energy management (in some cases).
Sound energy management practice is entirely consistent with these requirements and will help ensure that an organisation complies with its legal obligations.
Reducing carbon emissions through energy management will also help to mitigate the financial impact of schemes where carbon emissions allowances need to be purchased, or specific targets need to be met.
Standard Certification
Standard Certification
ISO 50001 Energy Management Systems
The standard specifies the requirements for an Energy Management System (EnMS) to enable your organization to develop and implement a policy, identify significant areas of energy consumption and target energy reductions. As well as enhancing energy efficiency, an EnMS can cut costs and reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions providing you with a competitive advantage.
An organisation that implements the standard needs to establish, implement, maintain and improve an energy management system. When the system is mature, energy management becomes integrated into day-to-day responsibilities and activities.
The Energy Management System is structured in a similar manner to the Environmental Management System, ISO14001:2015. Organisations that have already implemented or plan to implement ISO14001:2015 can integrate the requirements of both management systems to enable a more efficient implementation process while ensuring that a company benefits from the continued value-add of the management system, in the form of reduced energy costs.
ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems
SO 14001 is an ISO standard that recognized environmental management system. It is a management tool that aids any firm, irrespective of size, sector or type, to identify and to control the impact of its activities, its products and services on the environment.
It is a structured approach to define environment oriented goals and help organizations to pursue them.
ISO 14001 aims at encouraging organizations to promote concern towards the sustained environment. It however, does not aim at creating non-tariff trade barriers or to alter the organizations’ legal obligation
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