BSI British Standards to Develop ISO 50001 on Energy Management

October 27, 2008 // Published as a news service by IHS

The future standard, slated to be ready for publication by the end of 2010, will establish a framework for all types of organizations (industrial, commercial, institutional, large residential, and transportation sectors) as well as emerging economies and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to manage their energy usage.

BSI estimated that the standard could target as much as 60% of the world's energy use across national economic sectors.

The first meeting of the international committee established a working draft document. To ensure compatibility with the existing suite of ISO management system standards, the draft document is based on common elements found in the suite of standards, BSI said.

BSI publicly available specification (PAS) 99 - Specification of common management system requirements as a framework for integration is used as the basic framework document for the first working draft of ISO 50001, with the addition of energy-specific elements.

"BSI is proud to be working jointly with these three other national standards bodies on such an important project," Mike Low, director of BSI British Standards, said.

"Energy management should be on every boardroom agenda, and our aim is to use the vast experience we have of delivering environmental solutions to develop a standard which leads the way forward in this field," he said.

Source: BSI Group.