ISO 50001 Energy Management System for Enterprises of the Energy Sector
Find out how to achieve increasingly demanding energy efficiency and climate goals by enhancing your team’s energy management skills
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Training (2 days, 20 hours) or short-term program (5 days, 40 hours)
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Improving energy efficiency is a top priority for businesses worldwide. Wasteful energy practices drive up product costs, undermining their competitiveness. The impact of fuel and energy consumption on the environment is a growing concern as regulators impose stricter requirements that can negatively impact companies' financial standing and public image. Optimizing energy consumption is particularly important for the fuel and energy industry as it affects the cost and carbon footprint of all downstream products and services. Adopting efficient energy practices not only bolsters competitiveness by reducing a company's costs and carbon footprint but also fosters environmental sustainability and, thus, the company's positive image among its stakeholders. Implementing an energy management system that complies with international standards such as ISO 50001:2018 can help companies to continually improve their energy performance and reduce maintenance costs, aligning it with existing management practices and strengthening employee commitment. Our professional development program is designed to help businesses achieve these goals.
Target audience
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Middle managers and specialists in energy departments and other company units.
Face-to-face or online learning, with a mix of lectures and hands-on activities from group projects to individual tasks, with some requiring a computer. Active listening techniques are used in both formats.
Formats
- Integrate better energy performance decisions into the corporate management system
- Adapt energy management principles and best practices to the specific conditions of the company
- Work in the corporate team to effectively achieve the company's energy goals in a changing environment
Educational outcomes
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Boosting energy efficiency is a top priority for companies and organizations across all sectors and fields of activity.
Wasteful and unsustainable energy practices drive up product prices, making products less competitive, especially in industries with high energy consumption and particularly in exports. For most activities, the amount of fuel and energy consumed directly impacts environmental indicators, such as emission levels, and the severity of negative environmental effects. Regulatory authorities impose increasingly stringent environmental requirements, affecting companies' financial performance (through environmental levies) and reputation. In addition, emerging country-specific carbon regulations require companies to disclose their carbon footprint, which is mainly caused by fossil fuels and non-renewable energy consumption. And let us also not forget about the positive effects of asset modernization.
This issue is even more acute for companies in the fuel and energy complex, as they are at the beginning of all value chains. Their efficiency determines the costs and carbon footprint of all products produced and services provided further down the chain.
Wasteful and unsustainable energy practices drive up product prices, making products less competitive, especially in industries with high energy consumption and particularly in exports. For most activities, the amount of fuel and energy consumed directly impacts environmental indicators, such as emission levels, and the severity of negative environmental effects. Regulatory authorities impose increasingly stringent environmental requirements, affecting companies' financial performance (through environmental levies) and reputation. In addition, emerging country-specific carbon regulations require companies to disclose their carbon footprint, which is mainly caused by fossil fuels and non-renewable energy consumption. And let us also not forget about the positive effects of asset modernization.
This issue is even more acute for companies in the fuel and energy complex, as they are at the beginning of all value chains. Their efficiency determines the costs and carbon footprint of all products produced and services provided further down the chain.
The economy becomes more competitive when the extraction, production, and transmission of fuels and energy resources are efficient, reliable, and readily available. This also helps companies manage their costs better and improve their financial performance. Focusing on the goals of eco-friendliness, decarbonization, and sustainable development has a positive impact on companies' image in the eyes of regulators, the public, shareholders, investors, and stakeholders at large.
At the same time, it is important to ensure systematic and integrated enterprise-wide activities to consistently improve energy performance. This can be most effectively accomplished by adhering to the principles and requirements of the international standard ISO 50001:2018, one of the most widely accepted and universal codes of best practice suitable for any business or organization.
However, the standard's universality also has a downside: its requirements must be individually adapted for each organization, and the principles, formulated in the broadest terms, must be put into practice with the help of specific tools and methods, documents, and calculation tables.
A company implementing an energy management system (EnMS) must ensure it aligns with existing management practices and business processes. This alignment helps reduce maintenance costs, increase the system's efficiency, and encourage employee engagement and commitment.
Our professional development program is designed to assist in realizing these objectives.
At the same time, it is important to ensure systematic and integrated enterprise-wide activities to consistently improve energy performance. This can be most effectively accomplished by adhering to the principles and requirements of the international standard ISO 50001:2018, one of the most widely accepted and universal codes of best practice suitable for any business or organization.
However, the standard's universality also has a downside: its requirements must be individually adapted for each organization, and the principles, formulated in the broadest terms, must be put into practice with the help of specific tools and methods, documents, and calculation tables.
A company implementing an energy management system (EnMS) must ensure it aligns with existing management practices and business processes. This alignment helps reduce maintenance costs, increase the system's efficiency, and encourage employee engagement and commitment.
Our professional development program is designed to assist in realizing these objectives.
Program structure
Online meeting to introduce the program, its goals, outcomes and requirements
- An ISO 50001-based EnMS. Its origins and applications.
- Myths debunked and lessons learned from the EnMS implementation experience.
- A hands-on activity: An electronic self-assessment questionnaire on the EnMS currently established at the enterprise.
- Motivation for improving management systems. The role of an EnMS in the overall organizational management structure, its correlation with sustainable development principles and ESG, as well as operational efficiency goals.
- The structure of the ISO 50001:2018 standard and the rationale behind it. The standard's core principles (systematic approach, cyclical nature, process orientation, data-driven foundation, and commitment). What makes the standard universally applicable, and how does it facilitate continual EnMS improvement?
- Coordination with other management systems (QMS, etc.). Issues of integrating an EnMS into the company's decision-making framework. The universal nature of ISO management systems.
- Navigating changes in today's business. An overview of key trends in technology, business processes, and social dynamics.
- Understanding the organization and its context.
- Group work: Business Simulation Game, Phase 1. Analyzing the external environment. Current needs in the energy sector within the decision-making framework (problem diagnosis).
- Understanding stakeholder needs and expectations. Creating and updating a stakeholder map.
- Group work: Business Simulation Game, Phase 2. Identifying key stakeholders and their interests.
- EnMS scope and boundaries. Implementation options and their implications.
- Risks and opportunities and actions for addressing them. Document templates. Implementation examples.
- Group work: Business Simulation Game, Phase 3. Identifying risks and opportunities.
- The hierarchy of energy objectives – cascading from energy policy to subsequent levels.
- A hands-on activity: Motivation for implementing an EnMS at the enterprise. Goal setting.
- Energy policy. Its mandatory and additional elements. Implementation examples. Reasons for policy revision.
- A hands-on activity: Drafting an energy policy (monitoring the document structure and the presence of mandatory elements).
- Objectives and energy targets. Alternatives for their achievement. Selection criteria. Reasons for the revision.
- Selection of energy performance indicators with practical applications.
- Developing an action plan for energy efficiency improvement. An idea bank. Prioritization methods. Principles and mandatory elements.
- Group work: Business Simulation Game, Phase 4. Activities for mitigating risks and leveraging opportunities.
- An energy review as the core of an EnMS. The rationale behind developing and conducting a review.
- Identifying major energy consumers: key characteristics, challenges, practical applications.
- An individual hands-on activity (requires a PC): Identifying major energy consumers and calculating energy consumption trends.
- Planning for collection of energy data. Principles of data management.
- Establishing a baseline. Organizing monitoring.
- Measurement and verification of energy performance – principles, methods, and standards. The method of correction coefficients, the regression method.
- An Individual hands-on activity (requires a PC): Adjusting the baseline to equivalent conditions (normalization).
- Operational control.
- Critical operational parameters.
- Design and procurement. Coordination between departments.
- A hands-on activity: Filling out the operational control table.
- Compliance with legal and other requirements.
- Conducting internal audits.
- Top management review.
- Nonconformities and corrective actions.
- A hands-on activity: Completing an internal audit report.
- Leadership: Its manifestation and signs.
- A representative of top management.
- A working group for system implementation and the department responsible for system operation.
- A table of roles and responsibilities.
- Developing a motivation system.
- A hands-on activity: Creating a project's roles and responsibilities distribution table.
- The EnMS implementation and launch algorithm.
- Group Work: Digitalization – achieving maximum utility for energy managers.
Debriefing after the program, a final online test, if required.
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Daria Ivanova
Educational Program Manager
Maria Stepanova
Program coordinator
Maria Stepanova, Ph.D. in Economics, a certified auditor of energy management systems in accordance with ISO 50001:2018.
With 15 years of experience in energy management, Maria's expertise spans audit, system implementation, and training.
With 15 years of experience in energy management, Maria's expertise spans audit, system implementation, and training.
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