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Preparing for ISO 50001 Certification
ISO 50001 was designed for organizations in all sectors, with the goal of implementing an energy management system (EMS) that incorporates a philosophy of continuous improvement. This framework enables organizations to reduce their energy consumption by sustainably managing their energy strategy. It is now mandatory for any company whose energy consumption exceeds 23.6GWh/year.¹
Evaluate Your Energy Management System
Maliro helps its clients develop an energy management system by supporting their sites in preparing for ISO 50001 certification.
We analyze your data, conduct on-site assessments, and interview staff from each department to perform a comprehensive assessment of how you currently manage energy. Together, we identify best practices already in place to highlight completed and ongoing initiatives. We pinpoint areas for improvement based on the ISO certification standard, industry benchmarks, and our expertise in managing energy costs and consumption.
Together, we develop tailored recommendations to bridge the gap between current practices and those required for ISO 50001 certification.
We then provide ongoing support to ensure you are ready for the certification audit.
What is assessed during the evaluation?
To ensure the success of your ISO 50001 certification process, our assessments evaluate five key aspects of your energy management.
1. Your Energy Strategy
We are reviewing your energy policy and your current energy management structure: Have reduction targets already been set? Is there a 3- to 5-year roadmap? Are energy efficiency considerations incorporated into all job descriptions? Has a manager been designated to oversee energy-related issues?
2. Planning Your Approach
In this section, we focus on compliance with current regulations and the analysis of your energy consumption (consumption by equipment, mapping of consumption and losses, energy training).
We also analyze the existing action plan: Are the projects properly listed and prioritized over time? Have they been incorporated into the Capex classification? What about the quantitative indicators (k€/year, MWh/year,tCO2 eq.)? Have intermediate targets for reducing energy consumption in MWh or metric tons ofCO2ebeen properly identified?
3. Implementation of Energy Efficiency Measures
For example, we will ask ourselves the following questions: How are results communicated to employees? How are energy competencies integrated into each function? Is a Total Cost of Ownership approach in place? How is energy performance integrated into operational decisions? We strive to maintain momentum to implement recommendations across various areas simultaneously: skills development, awareness-raising, communication, operational procedures, procurement, design, and investments.
4. Your Energy Efficiency
We help you structure your approach to measuring, monitoring, and analyzing your energy consumption, and verify that your goals are actually being met. For example, we’ll ensure that energy performance is monitored at every level of your facility (executive leadership, management, and operators) and track key performance indicators. The goal: to be able to identify and understand where you’re performing well and where consumption deviations are occurring.
5. Your Long-Term Energy Efficiency Strategy
We ensure that a continuous improvement system is in place and functioning properly—that is, that it allows us to track the company’s progress in terms of energy management maturity.
Create an Effective Energy Management System
We take a “bottom-up” approach to empower you to take an active role in implementing the solutions needed to achieve certification.
Through our training and brainstorming sessions, we help your teams generate ideas and then translate them into concrete initiatives aligned with the requirements of ISO 50001.
As a result of our support, you now have all the tools you need to implement a sustainable energy management system designed for continuous improvement, namely:
- Managed and steered
Energy is integrated into your company’s strategy and processes, enabling you to track energy performance at all levels of the organization and monitor progress over time, thanks to a clear and shared management framework. - Technically Advanced
You know where and how energy is consumed and can identify the best opportunities for optimization. Your energy usage and losses are analyzed, allowing you to identify improvements to equipment and operating procedures, while continuously monitoring the results achieved. - Internal Awareness
By raising awareness and training your teams, and by engaging them in a commitment to energy efficiency, you foster an internal culture of energy conservation. Best practices become ingrained in daily operations, and energy efficiency becomes a stimulating collective effort because of its proven effectiveness.
ISO 50001 certification thus offers three types of benefits beyond the implementation of an energy management system:
- Lower energy costs
- A reduction in the carbon footprint
- Greater employee engagement in the energy efficiency initiative
