ISO 50001 — Energy Management (Awareness)

By the end

What you'll build

• Explain what a significant energy use is and identify likely ones in your area
• Interpret an energy baseline and an energy performance indicator correctly
• Identify energy waste in equipment, scheduling or building operation
• Describe how procurement and design decisions lock in energy consumption for years
• Contribute to an energy objective through specific operational changes
• Recognise when apparent energy savings are actually measurement artefacts

Curriculum

What's inside

6 modules · 35 lessons

1. 01

   Energy as a managed system

   6 lessons
   • Why energy management is a system, not an efficiency campaign
   • Energy cost, energy use and energy performance distinguished
   • Scope, boundaries and who is included
   • Leadership commitment and the energy team
   • Common false economies
   • + 1 more lesson
2. 02

   Knowing where energy goes

   6 lessons
   • Energy review and identifying significant energy uses
   • Metering and data quality basics
   • Baselines and normalising for weather or production
   • Energy performance indicators that mean something
   • Finding hidden loads and standby consumption
   • + 1 more lesson
3. 03

   Objectives and action plans

   6 lessons
   • From an energy target to an action someone owns
   • Prioritising opportunities by effort and return
   • Behavioural change and its durability
   • Maintenance as an energy control
   • Tracking savings honestly
   • + 1 more lesson
4. 04

   Design and procurement

   6 lessons
   • Decisions that lock in energy use for a decade
   • Energy considerations in equipment specification
   • Lifecycle cost versus purchase price
   • Contractor and supplier influence on energy performance
   • Retrofit opportunities and their limits
   • + 1 more lesson
5. 05

   Monitoring and review

   6 lessons
   • Reading an energy report and spotting a measurement artefact
   • Routine monitoring and exception reporting
   • Internal audit of the energy management system
   • Management review inputs
   • Sustaining performance after the easy wins
   • + 1 more lesson
6. 06

   Practice and check

   5 lessons
   • Energy terms and what they actually domatch pairs
   • Proving a reduction, not just claiming onesequence order
   • Reading an energy report without fooling yourselffill blank
   • The twelve percent that was not therescenario
   • Course quizquiz

The shape of it

How this course works