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Energy Management Matrix

Denis Joy
201120007
What is Energy Management matrix
• Tool developed by BRECSU, an office of the Building Research Establishment, UK in 1984.
• The matrix is used to focus on any organization’s approach to energy matters.
• It involves no new technology, but a comparison of priorities in energy use.

The Energy Management Matrix is used to:

• to identify and describe present level of focus on various aspects of energy management in the
organization;
• assists you in making a strategy on energy management.
• It is efficient, effective and easy to use in establishing Organizational Profile.

Reading the Matrix is quite simple.

columns deal with 1 of 6 energy management issues: policy, organization, motivation, information systems,
marketing and investment.
• from 0 to 4, it represents the increasingly focused nature of these issues.
• It can give insights into the way a company manages its energy.
 How to read the matrix

• Considering each column individually, mark each column with a

dot that describes where the priority you think your organization is
currently located
• The Profile is made by connecting the dots across the columns.
This provides a general picture of how balanced or unbalanced the
energy management is done within the organization.
• 4th row (top) represents where the most sophisticated input is
given. The lowest row indicates where the organization is lacking. In
most cases the profile would be uneven, it is unlikely to have a
balanced matrix.
• The organizational profile depicts the department where some
attention is needed in order to improve the energy management. It
also assists in organizing a new strategy in the former.
• Level 0
At this level, It could be said that no
input has been given in the
department from the org. There is
no specific staff in charge, no
strategy, no policy developed, no
reports is made, no formal energy
management structure in this
department
• Level 1
This is the first step to management. Though there is no official
energy policy, an energy manager has been appointed. He/ She
promotes an awareness by a network of informal contacts who
are direct consumers energy. He/ she may give advice when
necessary.

• Level 2 • Level 3
It is established by the The board members or managers acknowledge the need for a
management that energy program to reduce energy consumption. This is then integrated
management is important but, in to organizations policies and strategies. There is a well laid
practice, only few active information system and reporting is done periodically. There is
commitment or support for energy a program that lets more investment in energy efficiency and
management exists. emphasis on energy reduction is given.
• Level 4
The organization sees energy reduction as one of its top priorities and responsibilities. There is a targeted
performance to be achieved and data analysis is done to calculate the benefits of it. Achievements in
energy management are well reported and energy consumption is related to its impact on wider
environmental issues.
Uses of Energy Management Matrix

It is no new technology; it lets

organizations to relate
It also helps in relating the
themselves with others without
progress achieved periodically.
excuses that devalue many of the
numerically based tools

More than any other tool we use,

By spending few minutes one can
this tool helps in actively
produce the energy management
participating the management in
profile of an organization, (given
to the issue of energy
all the data are available)
management
 Steps to establish organizational profile for your
organization.

• After getting the organizational profile by yourself ask the respective staff to create another one,
• This gives a second profile which indicates another point of view on where the organization is
positioned in energy management.
• Compare the above two obtained organizational profiles. In columns where they don’t match,
discuss your assessments to reach a compromised position which is in the best interest of the
organization.
• If it both agree, then make the third organizational profile. If you cannot reach to a common
ground, use both profiles on and distinguish them as separate point of views which can be
compared later. Never consider failure to agree as an internal problem.
• There are no right or wrong answers in the organizational profile. It simply depicts the staffs
difference in point if view towards energy management.
 Questions to ask to
top management:
Policy & systems
• Is there a policy laid
• Is there a management strategy given
• role of the top management in energy
management?

Organization
• Is there a person or department associated
with energy management
• Is there a committee involved

Motivation
• Are the staffs allowed to come up with
new ideas
• Does the org appreciate their ideas
Questions to ask to top management
Information systems
• What data are collected?
• at what level and how often
• Info passed to top management, how do they respond

Training and awareness

• No of staffs appointed for energy conservation
• How aware are the staffs
• How is marketing used in energy conservation

Investment
• Process involved in approvement of policy
• criteria involved in evaluation of projects
• Are energy and greenhouse gas emissions analyzed in the projects
• What are the minimum criteria that a project must meet?
• Have there been projects that were not implemented?
To get the best results from the Matrix
Identify those issues that are critical in your organization’s energy management by:
1. Evaluating your position on the matrix;
2. Identifying the columns that need most progress;
3. identifying obstacles and finding the ways to overcome it;
4. Find the opportunities for improvement and make the most out of it;
5. Involving both senior managers and end users, in the process.

• An ideal way to measure the progress is to redraw your Organizational profile every year. This will give
opportunity to compare the matrices, and if your strategy has actually improved energy management or not.
References
• https://people.utm.my/mfuad/files/2011/06/Worksheet2EnergyEnvMatrix
• https://www.energy.gov.au/sites/default/files/3-energy-management-matrix
• (PDF) Organisational aspects of energy management (researchgate.net)
• Energy management – Wikipedia
• https://app.croneri.co.uk/topics/energy-management/indepth-1#WKID-201704210439090645-
03991415
• Energy Management Matrix | Energy Management | Efficient Energy Use (scribd.com)