Energy management

The VDI-Guideline 4602 released a definition which includes the economic dimension: "Energy management is the proactive, organized and systematic coordination of procurement, conversion, distribution and use of energy to meet the requirements, taking into account environmental and economic objectives".

[1] It is a systematic endeavor to optimize energy efficiency for specific political, economic, and environmental objectives through Engineering and Management techniques.

It is advisable to establish a separate organizational unit "energy management" in large or energy-intensive companies.

So the diverse needs of the individual sectors and the coordination between the branches and the head office can be fulfilled.

[3] In this topic the facility manager has to deal with economic, ecological, risk-based and quality-based targets.

In comparison, the passive house ultra-low-energy standard, currently undergoing adoption in some other European countries, has a maximum space heating requirement of 15 kWh/m2a.

[6] There are also buildings that produce more energy (for example by solar water heating or photovoltaic systems) over the course of a year than it imports from external sources.

Because the systems also include risk factors (e.g. oil tanks, gas lines), you must ensure that all tasks are clearly described and distributed.

Especially the core logistics task, transportation of the goods, can save costs and protect the environment through efficient energy management.

In case of business trips it is important to attract attention to the choice and the proportionality of the means of transport.

Service companies, in turn, do not need many materials, their energy-related focus is mainly facility management or Green IT.

It deals with the operational, temporal, quantitative and spatial planning, control and management of all processes that are necessary in the production of goods and commodities.

The impending changes in the structure of energy production require an increasing demand for storage capacity.

Another trend-setting technology is lithium-based electrochemical storage, which can be used in electric vehicles or as an option to control the power grid.

[16] By formulating an energy strategy companies have the opportunity to avoid risks and to assure a competitive advance against their business rivals.

Many companies are trying to promote its image and time protect the climate through a proactive and public energy strategy.

The strategy tries to evaluate the energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions of products and operations and sets reduction targets accordingly.

[22] Almost all locations of the Group are certified to the international standard ISO 14001 for environmental management systems.

This is a form of propaganda in which green strategies are used to promote the opinion that an organization's aims are environmentally friendly.

[26] The basis of every energy strategy is the corporate culture and the related ethical standards applying in the company.