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.
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