ISO 50001 specifies requirements of an energy management system (EnMS) for an organization to
Develop an energy policy,- Carry out energy review after studying past and present energy consumption data,
- Identify significance energy use,
- Establish design and procurement practices for equipment, system, processes and personnel working for Significant energy use,
- Establish objectives, targets, and Energy Management action plans,
- Identify legal and other requirement related to Significance Energy use.
ISO 50001 is designed based on the PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) framework. This set of activities under this approach can be briefly described as follows:
- Plan: conduct the initial energy review and establish the energy baseline, energy performance indicators (EnPi’s),objectives, targets and Energy Management Action plans to improve energy performance in line with energy policy.
- Do: implement the energy management action plans for significant energy use.
- Check: monitor and measure processes, the key characteristics of its operations & effectiveness of Energy management action plan.
- Act: take corrective/preventive actions to continually improve energy management system.