ISO 50001 energy management consultancy

In times when energy is expensive and environmental and climate protection objectives are being set higher and higher, companies need to deal with the energy management issue more and more intensely. On the one hand, legal requirements need to be met but important competitive advantages over the national and international competition need to be made sure of as well. The current edition of ISO 50001 provides the required tools to this end.

It is the goal of Germany to lower her primary energy consumption by 20 % up to 2020 and by 50 % up to 2050, compared to 2008. Aside from the private sector, these ambitious objectives impact especially the manufacturing industry and trading businesses, of course. Above all, they need to be achieved through improving energy efficiency. The German Federal Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Reactor Safety published their guidelines for companies and organizations on the issue as early as in 2012. This code of practice is supposed to help with the practical implementation of the ISO 50001 standard on energy management. The goals set for 2020 are likely to fail, though and as a probable consequence, the laws will become even stricter and energy even more expensive. Therefore, the issue of energy management is likely to become even more of a priority in the next years. Today, it is already possible to say that energy management is going to be one of the key factors deciding which companies can still manufacture economically in Germany and stand their ground against their competitors.