Achieving

Superior Energy Performancecm

through ISO 50001

Creating the Right Environment for

ISO 50001 to thrive
Dublin, Ireland 4 May 2012

Program Name or Ancillary Text

Aimee McKane
Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory

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Value of Energy Management

Time and again, industrial energy efficiency has been demonstrated
to be cost effective while having a positive effect on productivity
Despite this, energy efficiency improvements with very favorable
payback periods often do not get implemented
Even projects that are implemented may not be sustained due to
lack of supportive operational and maintenance practices
Problem:
Solution:

Energy efficiency is not integrated into daily

management practices.
Staff at all levels within an organization need to be
engaged in the management of energy on an
ongoing basis.

Energy management requires an organization to shift from a project-byproject approach to one of continual improvement in energy performance

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Characteristics of ISO 50001

Energy Management System Standard
Significant (10-20 percent) improvements in energy performance
can be achieved through operational changes.
Actively managing energy requires an organizational change in
culture.
Top management needs to be engaged in the management of
energy on an ongoing basis.
Provides a context for informed decisions concerning proposed
energy efficiency projects, including new technologies.
At its core, energy management requires a group of people to
change their behavior and sustain the change.
Scope of energy management
facilities
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equipment

personnel

systems

processes
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Key Definitions from ISO 50001

3.15
energy use
manner or kind of application of energy
EXAMPLE Ventilation, lighting, heating, cooling, transportation, processes,
production lines.
Energy use refers to what purpose the energy is applied. The use of manner in the
definition is related to the way that people apply the energy, so could include human
interaction and therefore could be improved with training, for example.

3.7
energy consumption
quantity of energy applied
Energy consumption represents how much as it relates to energy use above. This is a
separate concept from the energy use but these related terms appear together
throughout the standard

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Key Definitions from ISO 50001

3.12 energy performance
measurable results related to energy efficiency(3.8), energy use (3.28) and energy
consumption (3.7)
NOTE 1 In the context of energy management systems, results can be measured
against the organizations energy policy, objectives, targets and other energy
performance requirements
NOTE 2 Energy performance is one component of the performance of the energy
management system

3.13 energy performance indicator

EnPI
quantitative value or measure of energy performance, as defined by the
organization
NOTE EnPIs could be expressed as a simple metric, ratio or a more complex model.
The key to understanding the intent of the standard is that we are trying to improve
energy use, energy efficiency, and energy consumption, which is captured in ISO
50001 as the concept of energy performance.

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Implementing ISO 50001

Designed to be used independently, yet can be aligned or integrated
with other management systems (e.g., ISO 9001 and ISO 14001).
Certification is not required to benefit from use of ISO 50001
Does not prescribe specific performance criteria or results with
respect to energy.
Needs enabling policies to realize its global potential for GHG
emissions reductions
Requires a skilled energy management workforce to implement the
EnMS and conduct conformance audits

In the US, the enabling policy for ISO 50001 is

called Superior Energy Performancecm
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What is Superior Energy

Performance?
A market-based, ANSI/ANAB-accredited certification program
that provides industrial and commercial facilities with a roadmap
for achieving continual improvement in energy performance.
Goals:

Drive continual improvement in

energy performance

Develop a transparent system to

verify these improvements and to
certify the effectiveness of the EnMS

Support and build the energy

management workforce

Support greater energy efficiency

across industrial and commercial
markets

Encourage broad participation

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Superior Energy Performance for

industry will be launched
nationwide in October 2012.
SEP-Commercial Buildings
Is now in demonstration.

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Superior Energy Performance

Certification
Certification Requirements:
An ANSI/ANAB-accredited Verification Body will conduct a thirdparty audit to verify that the following requirements are met:
1. Energy Management System conformance to ISO 50001
Energy Management System Standard.
2. Energy performance improvement, as specified by pathway
and sector
Superior Energy
Performance
ISO 50001
Components in place:
Top Management
ISO 50001 is a
Energy Team
foundational tool
Policy
that any organization
Planning
can use to manage
Baseline
energy.
Performance Metrics
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Single facility ISO 50001 conformance with

verified energy performance improvement

ISO 50001
Certified Partner
OR
Partner
(Self declared)

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SEP Performance Criteria

for Certification Levels (Industry)
Performance
Characteristics

Silver

Meets 5% energy
Energy
Energy
performance
Performance Performance improvement
Improvement threshold over the last
Pathway
3 years.
Demonstrates an
Energy
energy performance
Performance improvement of 15%
Improvement or more over the last
10 years.

Mature
Energy
Pathway

Score on
Best
Practice
Scorecard
Includes credits for
energy
management best
practices and
energy
performance
improvements
beyond 15% over
the last 10 years.

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Gold

Platinum

Meets 10% energy

performance
improvement threshold
over the last 3 years.

Meets 15% energy

performance
improvement threshold
over the last 3 years.

Demonstrates an energy
performance
improvement of 15% or
more over the last 10
years.

Demonstrates an
energy performance
improvement of 15%
or more over the last
10 years.

Meets a score of at Meets a score of at

Meets a score of at
least 35 and up to
least 61 and up to 80
least 81 out of 100
60 out of 100 total
out of 100 total points
total points for Best
points for Best
for Best Practice
Practice Scorecard
Practice Scorecard
Scorecard
Minimum of 25
Minimum of 25
Minimum of 25 points
points required for
points required for
required for the energy
the energy
the energy
management best
management best
management best
practices and 10 for
practices and 10 for
practices.
energy performance.
energy performance.
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System Assessment Standards

Assessment standards for specific energy systems
provide immediate opportunity for energy performance
improvement in many facilities.
Use of the standards is not required for certification but
will help plants define a pathway for achieving energy
savings.

Available Standards:
Pumping (ISO WD 14414)
Compressed Air (ISO DIS
11011)

Steam
Process Heating

Standards address:

Organizing an assessment
Conducting an assessment
Analyzing the data collected and developing
efficiency recommendations
Reporting and documentation

Purchase standards and guidance documents from ASME for $35 (print or digital):

http://www.asme.org/search.aspx?searchText=EA&#page=1,category=STANDARD

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Key Success Factors for Certifying to

Superior Energy Performance
In addition to the general requirements of ISO 50001
facilities seeking SEP certification need to:
1. Establish EnMS Scope and Boundaries at the facility level that
include all energy sources
2. Collect data sufficient to establish a baseline year (12 month
period)
3. Establish significant energy uses that are truly representative of
facility operations and energy consumption
Improve monitoring and measurement of these uses
Establish robust operational controls and training
4. Identify Superior Energy Performance Indicators (SEnPIs) to
accurately track improvements in energy performance
5. Document methodologies used to support decisions made
during the planning process

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Key Success Factors for Certifying to

Superior Energy Performance
6. Prioritize and implement action plans / improve operational
processes to meet or exceed SEP energy performance
improvement requirements
7. Track, report on, and evaluate the effectiveness of action plans
toward meeting energy performance improvement requirements
8. Use sector-specific Measurement and Verification (M&V)
Protocol to determine SEP energy performance improvement
9. Plan beyond the current certification cycle- this is a long term
commitment to re-certify every three years, not an isolated
accomplishment
10. Prepare for a third-party audit of both EnMS and energy
performance
ANSI MSE 50021- Superior Energy Performance Additional
Requirements for Energy Management Systems
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Measurement and Verification Protocol

The SEP Industrial Measurement and Verification (M&V)

Protocol is a methodology to:
1. Verify results and impact from implementing the energy
management standard.
2. Track energy performance changes over time for the overall
facility.
3. Document energy performance normalized to production.

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ISO 50001 and Continual

Improvement
ISO 50001 requires continual improvement in an organizations
energy management system and its energy performance
ISO 50001 requires an organization to plan operations and
maintenance activities which are related to its significant energy
uses
In the language of ISO 50001, an action plan is the equivalent of a
project
BUT, not all activities related to operational control of significant
energy uses will require action plans
Conducting M&V in the ISO 50001 continual energy performance
improvement context requires consideration of both:
1. The results from implementing of action plans (projects) and
2. Any improvements in energy performance resulting from the ongoing
operational control of significant energy uses

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ISO 50001 and Continual

Improvement
Example:
A facility identifies steam as a significant energy use, but has made
many energy efficiency upgrades already, including boilers and a steam
trap maintenance program.
ISO 50001 requires that the facility demonstrate operational
control for the entire steam system, which may be as simple as
using existing energy performance data more effectively and
training staff on existing operational procedures.
Implementation of operational control will likely produce some
additional improvement in energy performance that is ongoingnot project specific.

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Qualified Workforce
Training and skill are required for appropriate application of ISO 50001 and
verification of conformance and resulting energy performance improvement.
Superior Energy Performance is helping to build this workforce.
Certified Practitioners in Energy
Management Systems (CP EnMS):
Help facilities implement ISO 50001
and prepare for SEP certification
ISO 50001 Auditor
Perform third-party conformance
audits to ISO 50001

CP EnMS May 2012: Second

class & exam
ISO 50001 Auditor National Exam
Institute for Energy Management
Professionals (IEnMP)
http://www.ienmp.com/ .

Certified Practitioner in Systems:

SEP Lead Auditors and SEP
Four planned- perform compressed
Performance Verifiers:
air, process heating, pumping, or
Perform third-party audits to verify
steam system assessments using
that a facility meets Superior
ASME system assessment
Energy Performance
standards
requirements
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SEP Verification Bodies &

Certified Personnel
Facility receives a combined SEP/ISO 50001 Audit
ANSI MSE
50028
(Requirements for
Verification Bodies)
ANSI/ANAB Accreditation includes:
Off-site review of the VB candidates
documented management system
Observations of the candidates audit team
Assessment of the recordkeeping and
competence of candidates office personnel
Annual verification of continued conformance

All Certified Personnel must meet

ANSI/ISO/IEC 17024 accredited
certification requirements,
including education, experience,
and standardized exam

Verification
Bodies
Certified SEP Audit Team
SEP Performance
Verifier

SEP Lead Auditor

Can be one cross-qualified person

CP EnMS + additional
Performance Verifier
Exam required

CP EnMS & ISO 50001 Auditor

+ additional Team Leader
Exam required for provisional
SEP Auditor; becomes Lead
Auditor based on experience

Certified Practitioner
in Energy Management
Systems (CP EnMS)

Certified ISO 50001

Auditor
(US National Exam)

Note: CP EnMS & ISO 50001 Auditor are general; specialty

certifications can be added in response to market needs
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Texas Pilot Project, 2008-2010

DOE worked with the University of
Texas at Austin to pilot Superior
Energy Performance in Texas facilities:
Field tested elements of Superior
Energy Performance
Implemented energy management
systems using ANSI MSE
2000:2008, which is consistent with
ISO 50001
Conducted audits and tested SEP
measurement and verification
Established the first ANSI/ANABaccredited Verification Body for
Superior Energy Performance
Certified the first plants to
Superior Energy Performance
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First Facilities Certified to

Superior Energy Performance
Cook Composites and Polymers
Houston, TX

% Energy
Performance
Improvement

14.9

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.

West Austin, TX

6.5

Owens Corning
Waxahachie, TX

9.6

Dow Chemical Company

Texas City, TX (manufacturing facility)
Dow Chemical Company
Texas City, TX (energy systems
facility)

17.1

8.1
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Superior Energy Performance

Demonstrations
U.S. DOE is conducting Superior Energy
Performance (SEP) Demonstrations with several
companies to implement energy management
systems and improve their energy performance.
Improvements in energy performance are verified
using the SEP Measurement and Verification
Protocol.

Industrial Participants:

3M
Alcoa
Allsteel
Amcor PET
Ascend
Performance
Materials
Bentley Prince
Street
Bridgestone Tire
Coca-Cola

Cook Composites &

Polymers
Cooper Tire
Cummins
Didion Milling, Inc
Dixie Chemical
Dow Chemical
Eaton
General Dynamics
Harbec Inc.

Haynes International
Holcim
Ingersoll Rand
JR Simplot
Kenworth Trucks
Lockheed Martin
MedImmune
Neenah Foundry
Company
Nissan

OLAM Spices
Republic Conduit
Schneider Electric
Spirax Sarco
Traco
UTC/Sikorsky
United States Mint
Volvo
World Kitchen

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Conclusion
Superior Energy Performance
Offers multiple ways to participate
Benefits all participants through improved energy
performance, whether seeking certification or not
Provides tools and technical assistance to help achieve
continual energy performance improvement
Builds a skilled workforce prepared to assist facilities in
realizing the potential of ISO 50001
Provides transparency through third-party verification of
energy performance
Is consistent with international standards and processes

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For More Information

ISO 50001:
www.eere.energy.gov/energymanagement
Superior Energy Performance:
www.superiorenergyperformance.net/
Energy Management Demonstrations:
www.eere.energy.gov/industry/energymanagementdemonstrations/
Texas Pilot Program, Superior Energy Performance Case Studies:
www.superiorenergyperformance.net/texas_pilot.html

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