Ingenieur Vol 63 Ingenieur Vol 63 2015 | Page 39

Industry and energy management United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) Industrial Energy Efficiency Programme Improving energy efficiency in industry is one of the most cost-effective measures to help supply-constrained developing and emerging countries meet their increasing energy demands and loosen the link between economic growth and environmental degradation, such as climate change. The final goal of the UNIDO Industrial Energy Efficiency (IEE) Programme is to effect sustained energy management and efficiency practices in the industries of developing countries and emerging economies in order to reduce the environmental pressure of economic growth while increasing productivity, helping to generate economic growth, creating jobs and alleviating poverty. UNIDO pursues its goal through projects aimed to deliver comprehensive capacity building at the institutional level, in the market and within enterprises of energy management and energy system optimization. UNIDO projects also provide technical assistance to strengthen existing institutional, policy and regulatory frameworks through the development of policy programmes, legislation and normative instruments that promote and support permanent integration of energy management and efficiency practices in the industry’s corporate culture. Depending on the national context, the implementation of demonstration projects is supported through the provision of energy efficiency, investment specific, technical assistance. Time and again energy efficiency in industry has been demonstrated to be cost effective while having a positive effect on productivity. Despite this, energy efficiency improvements with potentially very favourable payback periods often do not get implemented. When projects are implemented, it often happens that results are not sustained due to lack of supportive operational and maintenance practices. Energy efficiency is still widely viewed as a luxury rather than a strategic investment in future profitability. Three decades of national and international experiences with industrial energy efficiency programmes have shown that most energy efficiency in industry is achieved through changes in how energy is managed in an industrial facility, rather than through installation of new technologies. The goal of sustainable energy efficiency in industry requires that energy efficiency is integrated into daily management practices and systems for continual improvement. In order to achieve that, top management needs to be engaged in the management of energy on an ongoing basis. Energy management system (EnMS) standards provide a proven policy-driven market-based tool and best-practice method to integrate energy efficiency in industry corporate culture and daily management. EnMS standards can drive and provide the framework needed for the individual and organisational behavioural change that is required to effect sustainable and continual improving energy efficiency in industry; the behavioural change needed to go beyond the technology, equipment and stand-alone project approach to energy efficiency that is currently mainstreamed in industry as well as in the IEE service market. MS ISO 50001:2011 Energy Management Standards MS ISO 50001:2011 specifies requirements for establishing, implementing, maintaining and improving an energy management system, whose purpose is to enable an organisation to follow a systematic approach in achieving continual improvement in energy performance, including energy efficiency, energy use and consumption. 37