Certification to ISO 50001 not only yields significant benefits, but also shows what a forward-looking organization can accomplish when it makes energy management a priority. The implementation of the ISO 50001 energy management system enables an organization to institutionalize policies, procedures, and tools to systematically track, analyze, and continually improve energy performance, including energy procurement and consumption. Certification proves that an organization’s energy management system meets the requirements of ISO 50001 and shows the public that it is committed to energy management. This gives customers, stakeholders, employees and management confidence that the organization is saving energy. It also helps to ensure that the energy management system is working throughout the organization. Another advantage of a certification is its emphasis on continual improvement. By certifying and re certifying to ISO 50001, the organization will develop a culture that prizes energy efficiency and ensures that the organization will continue to get better at managing its energy. By simply changing the way an organization manages energy, that organization and its facilities can reduce energy costs, which are one of the largest controllable operating costs for any organization. In addition, certification helps generate improvements in productivity. The ISO 50001-based EnMS help a facility to focus broadly on all of its energy sources and energy using applications to sustain energy savings it achieves. The EnMS causes the energy management team to institutionalize all elements of the Plan-Do-Check-Act system to ensure greater persistence of energy performance improvement. In addition, the independent third party certification provides strong validation to senior management and shareholders of the cost-effectiveness of the energy savings achieved by the energy management team. By providing a transparent and credible verification of an organization’s approach energy efficiency, organizations can display their commitment to sustainability. ISO 50001 is intended to assist organizations to make better use of their existing energy-consuming assets by providing a consistent framework by which a wide variety of end users -industrial, commercial, institutional, transportation and other can evaluate energy use and develop sound strategies to improve their energy performance. To accomplish this objective ISO 50001 offers guidance in several areas including energy bench-marking, measurement, documentation, and reporting. This focus on data collection and reporting is intended to create transparency and facilitate communication on energy management within an organization. In addition, ISO 50001 provides context for evaluating and prioritizing the implementation of energy-efficient technologies and a framework for encouraging energy efficiency throughout an organization’s supply chain. Achieving ISO 50001 certification is not impossible and organizations that achieve this distinction gain prominence on the global stage by being seen as forward-looking and committed to shareholder value and sustainability simultaneously.
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