ISO 50001 Energy Management System
ISO 50001 Energy Management System
The Energy Management Standard ISO 50001 ensures that energy efficiency is improved and energy costs are reduced.
Who is suitable?
In general, companies in every sector and of all sizes can obtain energy management system certification. The standard offers systematic requirements and successful practices for organizations that are particularly sensitive to energy. In small and medium-sized companies, it can be seen as the part of the environmental management system that focuses on the energy side. For companies that already have ISO 14001, it provides them with a structure that takes more into account the energy factor.
Benefits to be Obtained
Energy-based standards such as ISO 50001 enable organizations to develop the systems and processes necessary to improve their energy performance. These standards ensure that energy management contributes to improving energy consumption, energy costs, greenhouse gas emissions and environmental impacts. The organization's energy management is addressed with a systematic approach. The elements defined as energy are electricity, petroleum-derived fuels, steam, heat, compressed air and renewable energies. It addresses how these energy elements are managed in the areas of lighting, ventilation, cooling, heating, process heat and transportation and process.
ISO 50001 includes the following elements
- Energy-related assessment.
- Energy-related baseline.
- Energy performance indicators.
- Procurement of energy services, products and facilities.
These conditions are generally grouped under the following headings;
- Management's responsibility
- Energy policy
- Legal compliance
- Energy planning
- Energy-related assessments
- Energy indicators
- Strategic and operational objectives
As with other management systems, the organization should establish a documented system and determine the scope of this structure. Senior management should appoint a representative. Energy-related assessments should be made to analyze sources of energy use, identify energy sources, evaluate past and current energy consumption, and project future energy needs.
A philosophy of continuous improvement, including energy performance, needs to be embedded in energy policies. Appropriate energy performance indicators will be established as a result of measuring and monitoring energy performance.
How will the system be certified?
- The applicant organization will submit a letter to Vericert that the requirements of the standard have been met.
- Vericert appoints an auditor.
- The auditor examines the work done by the organization in the organization and after all the work is completed, Vericert issues the document showing that the organization has a management system in accordance with the standard. The organization enters the surveillance audit every year to ensure that the system is actively implemented.
