Implementing an Effective Energy Management Action Plan

Key Steps to Implement an Effective Energy Management Approach

1. Choosing an Energy Management System

Whether you work in businesses or public organizations, the first step is to equip yourself with a tool to track energy consumption when managing multiple buildings. At the scale of a real estate portfolio, using an EMS offers many advantages, particularly in terms of improving efficiency.

An energy management system will allow you to integrate the history of your bills and monitor your energy consumption (gas, electricity, oil, and other fluids) in real-time.

All of this data will enable you to analyze your consumption, identify the most energy-intensive buildings, and pinpoint energy-saving opportunities. You can also optimize your energy contracts by adjusting the subscribed power if it is not aligned with your actual consumption.

2. Support from Energy Managers

An energy management system alone will not lead to energy savings. To analyze consumption, recommend actions, and implement them on the ground, we advise you to be supported by Energy Managers or energy efficiency experts (for the public sector). These energy professionals will develop relevant action plans to reduce your energy consumption across your real estate portfolio.

The Energy Manager plays a technical role, as they are deeply familiar with the operation of the building’s technical equipment. They also act as a consultant and coordinator with the various teams, both centrally and on-site, to implement energy efficiency actions. Finally, the last step of their mission is to quantify the savings achieved using a reliable calculation method. The Energy Manager is thus responsible for the long-term energy strategy of your portfolio.

3. Tracking the Strategy Over Time

Implementing an energy management approach, with a management system and support, is highly effective for achieving energy savings. However, this approach must be part of a long-term strategy that will help meet regulatory requirements. To do so, businesses and public organizations must think “long-term” by developing a progressive action plan that will allow them to reach their energy consumption reduction goals while smoothing out investments.

To get started on the right foot and meet regulatory objectives, we advise you to compare the different offers from Energy Management service providers and ask for use cases to verify the relevance of their solution and support for your project.