Plan, develop and implement organisational energy performance monitoring processes
Overview
This standard describes the skills and knowledge requirements to plan, develop and implement organisational energy performance monitoring processes. It includes how to manage methods and processes to monitor and evaluate energy usage.
This standard is suitable for:
A manager with responsibility for energy management
An owner of a small business seeking to improve the energy performance of the organisation
An energy management systems co-ordinator or equivalent
An energy auditor
A consultant providing energy management advice.
This standard covers the planning and development required to implement an organisational energy monitoring system, considering the good practice, resources, objectives, and communication required to optimise energy efficiency.
When planning, developing and implementing organisational energy
performance monitoring processes, you/the planner needs to have in mind the requirements to protect nature and strengthen ecological resilience, boost resource-efficiency, lower carbon growth and reduce threats to human health and wellbeing.
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
- Identify the organisational environmental objective and targets for energy performance
- Plan the development and implementation of organisational energy performance monitoring processes
- Confirm the resources required to support the implementation of the monitoring processes to improve organisational energy performance
- Develop the monitoring processes in accordance with organisational and current legislative requirements to comply with required timescales and budgets
- Implement monitoring processes in a manner which enables relevant stakeholders, including those with protected characteristics, to contribute
- Implement monitoring processes in a way which maximises the benefits to the organisation and to the environment
- Monitor and evaluate implementation of energy performance monitoring processes in accordance with organisational requirements
- Review the monitoring processes and use the results to improve future practice
- Take action where implementation is not being achieved in accordance with the plans
- Communicate the results of the review to relevant stakeholders
- Establish the impact of the implementation of the monitoring processes and the benefits to the organisation and its energy performance
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
- The reasons for and benefits of continual improvement of energy performance
- How to identify the organisational environmental objectives and targets for energy performance
- What is required to plan the development and implementation of organisational energy performance monitoring processes
- The types and sources of information required for planning the development of the monitoring processes
- The resources requirements to support the implementation of the monitoring processes to improve organisational energy performance
- The relevant energy efficiency regulatory and good practice requirements applicable to the organisation
- How to recognise the need for, and obtain, additional expertise and information within the required timescales and budget
- How to recognise the required skills of relevant stakeholders, including those with protected characteristics, involved in improving organisational energy performance
- The process of delivering a measurable, timetabled, and systematic implementation plan
- The potential obstacles to improving energy efficiency and how to take them into account during planning
- The necessary content of plans to improve energy efficiency
- The types of presentation suitable for the different audiences and purpose
- The reasons for monitoring and evaluating the implementation of the energy performance monitoring processes
The methods for monitoring and evaluating the implementation of the energy performance monitoring processes
The organisational requirements and procedures for monitoring and evaluating the implementation of the monitoring processes
- The ways in which the results of the evaluation should be communicated
- The types of documentation required for monitoring and evaluating the implementation of the monitoring processes