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11. Energy goals:
• Do not exist;
• Are stated, but not officially;
• Global goals have been stated, according to the organization policy;
• Specific goals for each organization’s level/area are being defined;
• Specific energy goals for each organization’s level/area are being defined;
12. Participation in the development of a strategy for the energy consumption reduction within the organization:
• Those directly involved in energy consumption and the management, are not sensitive to that issue;
• Some activities are being carried on to improve the sensitivity to that issue;
• Most of the managers consider that issue important, but not under their responsibility;
• Most of the managers consider that issue important, and prove to be reactive when involved in specific projects;
• Most of the managers consider that issue important, and prove to be proactive in promoting consumption reduction.
13. Operative participation of the organization:
• The energy manager rarely works in a team;
• The energy manager is supported by a team of external specialists;
• The energy manager occasionally cooperate with other managers when involved in specific projects;
• The energy manager systematically cooperate with the other managers to find out and evaluate new energy management opportunities;
• Through the managers’ mediation, every employee participates in a proactive way to energy management.
14. Type of technical training (energy supply, energy production/transformation, energy use, innovative technologies) provided to the energy management responsible:
• They have not been specifically trained yet;
• A training program is going to be actuated;
• Only a part of them has been trained and only on a few subjects have been tackled;
• Only a part of them has been trained or only on a few subjectshave been tackled;
• All of them have been trained and all the subjects have been tackled.
15. Type of management training (energy projects economic and financial evaluation, energy audit, consumption analysis methods and tools, energy management informational systems, energy management systems)provided to the energy management responsible:
• They have not been specifically trained yet;
• A training program is going to be actuated;
• Only a part of them has been trained and only on a few subjects have been tackled;
• Only a part of them has been trained or only on a few subjectshave been tackled;
• All of them have been trained and all the subjects have been tackled.
16. Systematical and documented audits of the organization’s physical assets (buildings, plants, systems, etc.) aimed at identifying energy management opportunities (energy audits) and carried on with the means of available data analysis and surveys…
• Have never been carried on;
• Have been carried on, but not adequately and producing no significant medium-term improvements;
• Have been carried on producing some improvements, but only a small part of the energy management opportunities identified have been taken;
• An audit has been carried on lately, and the energy management opportunities identified are actually being implement according to their priority;
• Are periodically carried on in order to identify an energy management plan and to evaluate and implement energy management opportunities.
17. Energy management opportunities log:
• Doesn’t exist;
• There is not an official document which lists the energy management opportunities, but an informal list is available;
• There is an energy management opportunities log that provides a description and a brief cost/benefit evaluation for each opportunity;
• There is an energy management opportunities log that provides a detailed technical end economic feasibility evaluation of each opportunity, together with the responsibilities and duration of its implementation;
• Exists, contains the information previously mentioned and is used to plan and control the activities’ implementation process, as well as to verify its fulfillment and efficacy.
18. Development of a measurement system of energy consumption (definition and use of a measurement plan in order to state the characteristics that have to be measured, the measurement frequency and tools):
• The issue has never been tackled;
• Some measurement campaigns aimed at identifying the energy consumption of specific areas/systems/utilities have been carried on;
• The methodology to collect data relating to the most important areas/systems/utilities from the energy point of view has been defined, but campaigns have not started yet;
• Data are collected according to a measurement system which is partially or partly developed;
• Data collection and logging activities are carried on regularly according to the measurement plan and have been automated and integrated with the existing data collection and logging activities depending on the organization’s needs.
19. Energy drivers (variables affecting energy consumption, such as departments’ production volumes, degree days and/or opening hours ofbuildings, hours of darkness for night lighting, etc.):
• The issue has never been tackled;
• Some of them have been identified and are regularly measured but a specific analysis has never been carried out;
• A specific analysis aimed at identifying the energy drivers of the monitored consumption centers is being carried out;
• The analysis has already been carried out and the measurement system is being made ready for data collection;
• The identified energy drivers are regularly measured together with the consumption data.
20. Regarding the analysis of the collected consumption data, it is possible to state that:
• The data are analyzed only at a global level (for the entire organization’s site);
• The contribution of various systems/areas to the global consumption is periodically analyzed (for example the various departments of an industrial plant, the various areas of a service company, etc.);
• The temporal trends of energy consumption are usually analyzed for each measurement point;
• The consumption is sometimes analyzed also as a function of the identified (for example by using regression) energy drivers for each measurement point;
• A periodic analysis of the consumption data as a function of the monitored energy drivers is systematically carried out.
21. Energy performances indicators:
• Are not used;
• Are used at a global level (for the whole organization);
• Are used at a global level, and they also account of the energy drivers (production volumes, worked hours, etc.);
• Have been defined specifically for the main systems/areas that use energy;
• Have been defined specifically for the main systems/areas that use energy, and they also account of the energy drivers.
22. Internal communication
• The energy manager is not in contact with the departments/areas that use energy;
• There is informal communication between technical specialists and a few users;
• Meetings attended by designated delegates from the various areas are occasionally arranged;
• Meetings attended by designated delegates from the various areas are regularly arranged and energy performances are discussed;
• Formal and informal communication strategies are regularly actuated by the energy manager and the energy staff at any hierarchical level.