Monitor and evaluate organisational energy performance
Overview
This standard describes the skills and knowledge requirements to monitor and evaluate organisational energy usage and performance. It includes how to manage methods and processes to monitoring and evaluate organisational energy usage and performance, how to obtain, analyse and record information on energy performance and provide information required to optimise energy performance.
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 monitoring and evaluating energy performance results and producing reports and engaging and communicating with all those involved in optimising organisational energy performance.
When monitoring and evaluating organisational energy performance, you/the monitor need 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 scope and definition of organisational energy performance processes requiring monitoring and evaluation
- Review any existing organisational energy performance monitoring methods in line with requirements
- Specify monitoring methods and good practice for energy consumption and when applicable review against existing methods
- Produce a procedure to monitor and evaluate organisational energy usage and performance
- Identify all the resources required to implement monitoring methods
- Implement monitoring methods in line with timescales and resources
- Obtain and record information required for the evaluation of organisational energy performance
- Obtain energy performance information from suppliers of products and processes
- Document and record organisational energy performance
- Communicate the organisational energy performance to relevant stakeholders, including those from protected characteristics
- Evaluate and analyse the organisational energy efficiency performance including information received from suppliers
- Record and document the results of the evaluation
- Compare the results with current organisational requirements and current good practice
- Identify and agree areas where an improvement to the organisational energy performance is required
- Provide information on the organisational energy performance to relevant stakeholders, including those with protected characteristics
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
- The processes requiring monitoring and evaluating
- The range of monitoring methods for evaluating organisational energy consumption and how to select suitable system(s)
- How to collate and document information on monitoring methods and processes
- How to estimate the resources required to implement monitoring methods and processes
- How to gain approval for required resources to implement monitoring methods and processes
- How to manage resources to implement monitoring methods and processes
- How to obtain and document in the relevant organisational format, information required to assess organisational energy efficiency from monitoring methods and processes
- How to obtain energy performance information from suppliers of products and processes
- The range of suppliers and the information they can provide on the energy efficiency of their products and processes
- How to collate and document information on energy performance and efficiency
- The principles and processes of effective communication and how to apply them
- The range of evaluation and analysis methods and develop and apply relevant system(s)
- How to collate and document results of evaluations and analysis
- How to use the findings of the evaluation to identify potential areas for improvement of organisational energy performance and the benefits of improvement
- How to provide and submit regular information on organisational energy performance of the methods and processes
- The energy sources used by the organisation and the environmental impact of each one