1. Updates on Implementation of ISO 50001 in
the U.S.
Prakash Rao
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
EEMODS 2013
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2. Topics
1. U.S. leadership in ISO 50001
2. Superior Energy Performance (SEPTM) demonstration
plant outcomes
3. Development of Qualified Workforce
4. U.S. DOE Better Buildings, Better Plants initiative
5. Release of Energy Performance Indicator Tool v3.0
6. Next Steps for SEPTM and Better Plants
7. Global Superior Energy Performance (GSEP)

3. ISO 50001: Energy Management Standard
Developed by ISO Project Committee 242:
United States and Brazil lead effort with United Kingdom
and China
U.S. leadership supported through U.S. DOE
New international best practice in energy management
Emphasis on collection and analysis of available energy data
to support energy management decision-­making, and improve:
Ability to benchmark, measure and report
Transparency and communication to management
Operations and capital cost decisions
Flexible and limited documentation requirements (compared to ISO 14001)
focus is on energy performance
Published in 2011, including input from 56 countries
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/energymanagement/
http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/management-­standards/iso50001.htm

4. 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.
Requires a skilled energy management workforce to implement the
energy management system (EnMS) and conduct conformance
audits
Needs enabling policies to realize its global potential for GHG emissions reductions
In the US, the enabling policy for ISO 50001 is called
Superior Energy Performance (SEPTM)

5. SEPTM Certification Requirements
A market-­based, ANSI-­ANAB accredited certification program that provides industrial and
commercial facilities with a roadmap for achieving continual improvement in energy
efficiency while boosting competitiveness.
Certification Requirements: An ANSI-­ANAB accredited Verification Body conducts a third-­party audit to
verify that the following requirements are met:
1. Energy management system conformance to ISO 50001
2. Achieve and document energy performance improvement
Superior Energy PerformanceTM
ISO 50001
ISO 50001 is a
foundational tool that
any organization can
use to manage
energy.
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Components in place:
Top Management
Energy Team
Policy
Planning
Baseline
Performance Metrics
Single facility ISO 50001 conformance with
verified energy performance improvement
ISO 50001

6. SEPTM Demonstrations
States, regions, and utilities are partnering with
U.S. DOE to support SEPTM demonstrations in
companies across the country.
Corporate Industrial Participants:
Green highlight indicates company with one or more certified
facility
3M
Allsteel
Ascend Performance
Materials
Bentley Prince Street
Bridgestone Tire
Coca-­Cola
CCP Composites
Cooper Tire
Cummins
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Curtiss-­Wright Flow
Control Company
Didion Milling, Inc
Dixie Chemical
Dow Chemical
Eaton
Freescale
Semiconductors
General Dynamics
Gerdau
Harbec Inc.
Haynes
International
Ingersoll Rand
Lockheed Martin
Mack Trucks
MedImmune
Neenah Foundry
Company
Nissan
North American
Höganäs
www.eere.energy.gov/manufacturing/tech_deployment/sep_demonstrations.html
OLAM Spices
Owens Corning
Republic Conduit
Schneider Electric
Spirax Sarco
UTC/Sikorsky
United States Mint
Volvo
World Kitchen

7. SEPTM Program Certifications
Facility Name
Volvo Trucks, NA | Dublin, VA
25.8
Dow Chemical Company | Texas City, TX: Manufacturing facility
17.1
3M Canada Company | Brockville, Ontario, Canada
15.2
Cook Composites and Polymers | Houston, TX
14.9
General Dynamics | Scranton, PA
11.9
Allsteel | Muscatine, IA
10.2
Cooper Tire | Texarkana, AR
10.1
Olam Spices | Gilroy, CA
9.8
Owens Corning | Waxahachie, TX
9.6
Dow Chemical Company | Texas City, TX: Energy systems
facility
8.1
Nissan, NA | Smyrna, TN
7.2
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. | West Austin, TX
6.5
3M Company| Cordova, IL
6.2
Bridgestone Americas Tire | Wilson, NC
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Facility Wide
Verified %
Energy
Performance
Improvement
16.8
14 facilities SEPTM certified.
Nine SEP certified facilities
offered data to DOE.
Results from nine plants
averaged 10% improvement in
energy performance over
business-­as-­usual in the first 18
months of SEP implementation.
Cost savings on average
$503,000 per year from
operational improvements
(low/no cost investment)
attributable to SEP.
77% of savings from operational
improvements and 23% from
capital projects.

8. Analysis of SEPTM demonstration sites Energy Savings
Percentages
Facilities required longer than one quarter to implement an EnMS.
SEPTM attributable savings start in +Q2 when EnMS implementation start to impact
energy savings.
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Taken from: Peter Therkelsen, Ridah Soubani, Aimee McKane, and Paul Scheihing. (2013). Assessing the Costs and Benefits of the
Superior Energy Performance Program, 2013 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry, Niagara Falls, NY

9. Analysis of SEPTM demonstration sites Payback
Costs
Benefits
EnMS and SEP TM Implementation Costs
Operational Energy Savings (attributable to SEP TM in SEP TM reporting period)
Capital energy performance improvement action costs and savings not included.
< 2 year payback for > 0.28 PJ
Meets typical industry hurdle rate.
SEPTM certification payback related to baseline energy consumption.
< 2 year payback for facility with > 0.27 Tbtu (0.28 PJ) baseline annual source energy
consumption.
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Taken from: Peter Therkelsen, Ridah Soubani, Aimee McKane, and Paul Scheihing. (2013). Assessing the Costs and Benefits of the
Superior Energy Performance Program, 2013 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry, Niagara Falls, NY

10. Qualified Workforce
SEPTM is helping to build a workforce qualified to apply ISO 50001 effectively and to verify its
conformance and resulting energy performance improvement
Certified Practitioners in Energy
Management Systems (CP EnMS):
Help facilities implement ISO 50001 and
prepare for SEPTM certification (74
certified as of Oct 2013)
ISO 50001 Auditor
Perform third-­party conformance audits
to ISO 50001
Certified Practitioner in Systems: Four
planned-­ perform compressed air,
process heating, pumping, or steam
system assessments using ASME
system assessment standards
Institute for Energy Management
Professionals (IEnMP)
http://www.ienmp.com/
SEP Lead Auditors and SEP
Performance Verifiers:
Perform third-­party audits to verify that a
facility meets SEPTM requirements (10 Lead
Auditors and 16 Performance Verifiers as of
Oct 2013)
http://www.superiorenergyperformance.net/certified_practitioners.html

11. Better Buildings,
Better Plants Program
Voluntary pledge program between U.S. manufacturing
companies and the U.S. DOE to improve energy intensity of
manufacturing operations by 25% over 10 years
Partners establish energy performance baselines based on U.S.
DOE guidance and consistent with ISO 50001
In return for pledging, U.S. DOE offers:
Technical assistance towards tracking progress towards pledge
achievement
National recognition for Partners with additional recognition for pledge
achievers
123 Partners have taken the pledge
Represents 8% of the total U.S. manufacturing energy footprint

12. Better Buildings, Better Plants
Program Recent Achievements
12 new Partners in past 12
months, including:
2013 Snapshot of Program achievements
Accomplishment
Total
Number of Partner Companies
123
Approximate Number of Plants
1,750
Reported Savings
Cumulative Energy Savings
through 8/2013 (TBtu)
190
(200 PJ)
Cumulative Cost Savings
through 8/2013 (Million)
$1,000
Average Energy Intensity
Improvement in 2012
2.7%

13. Better Plants Challenge
Buildings Initiative (BBI)
BBI seeks to reduce energy intensity in the commercial and
industrial sectors by 20% in 2020
Challenge Partners pledge to reduce energy intensity by 25% in
10 years with additional level of transparency including:
Sharing energy performance data
Conduct showcase projects that demonstrate near term energy savings
13 U.S. manufacturers have taken the Challenge
-­ 3M
-­ Ford Motor Company -­ Legrand N. America -­
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Alcoa
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General Electric
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Nissan N. America
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Briggs & Stratton
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Harbec, Inc.
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Saint-­Gobain Corp
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Cummins
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Johnson Controls, Inc. -­
Schneider Electric
The J.R. Simplot
Company

14. Energy Performance Indicator Tool v3.0
Developed by U.S. DOE to assist plant and corporate managers:
Establish an energy consumption baseline
Develop a regression model to predict energy consumption
based on variables such as production and weather
Track annual energy intensity improvements against the baseline
Calculate energy savings against the baseline
Calculate performance indicators for SEPTM and Better Plants
Spreadsheet based and downloadable for free at:
https://ecenter.ee.doe.gov/EM/tools/Pages/EnPI.aspx

15. Next Steps for SEPTM and Better Plants
SEPTM Enterprise Accelerator
Directed to Better Plants partners that want to implement SEPTM,
including ISO 50001, across multiple facilities creating
opportunities for economies of scale in deploying SEPTM
SEPTM Ratepayer-­Funded Program Accelerator
U.S. DOE will be working with several utilities and energy
efficiency program administrators to develop an implementation
model for SEPTM that meets regulatory requirements for offering
incentives to their industrial customers.

16. Global Superior Energy Performance (GSEP) Partnership
GSEP Energy Management Working Group (EMWG) goal:
Implementation of an EnMS and ISO 50001 becomes common practice as part of
continual improvement of energy performance in industrial and commercial
facilities and companies.
EMWG Strategic Objectives:
1. Energy Management: Increase the implementation of energy
management in the industrial and buildings sectors in order to improve
energy efficiency and energy performance on an ongoing basis
2. Measurement and Verification (M&V): Measure and verify energy
performance improvements on a consistent basis
3. Qualified Workforce: Build a qualified workforce of professionals with
expertise in the fields of energy management, energy efficiency, and
measurement and verification
Australia
Canada
Denmark
European
Commission
India
Japan
Korea
Mexico
The Clean Energy Ministerial
(CEM) is a high-­level global forum
to promote policies and programs
that advance clean energy
technology, to share lessons
learned and best practices, and to
encourage the transition to a global
clean energy economy.
The GSEP EMWG is one of six
working groups created through
the CEM.
http://www.cleanenergyministerial.org
South Africa
Sweden
United States

17. Links
Superior Energy PerformanceTM:
http://www.superiorenergyperformance.net/
U.S. DOE Better Buildings, Better Plants:
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/manufacturing/tech_assistance/b
etterplants/index.html
U.S. DOE Advanced Manufacturing Office:
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/manufacturing/