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To provide candidates with a sound knowledge and understanding
of developing, monitoring and evaluating performance in energy efficiency, identifying
opportunities for improvements and implementing them. 
Systems to monitor energy usage; assessing energy
efficiency and performance; developing a culture of energy awareness; advising
on energy-efficient practices; identifying opportunities for improvements; implementing
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The candidate should know and understand how to:
- Analyse the factors which affect energy usage,
within an organisation.
- Establish policies, procedures and responsibilities
with respect to energy management, taking into account Health and Safety and Environmental
Legislation.
- Collect and record energy
management information for a given situation.
- Design systems to plan, monitor and evaluate energy usage.
- Make a case for implementing measures to improve energy efficiency.
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Monitoring and Improving Energy Efficiency Communication
- Principles and processes of effective communications;
communicating recommendations.
- Consulting;
who to consult; agreeing implementation plan.
- Providing accurate and up-to-date information; communicating to teams; advising
teams.
Energy
efficiency
 Factors affecting
energy usage; increasing awareness levels of employees and monitoring awareness;
format and frequency of reports.- Best
practice in efficiency; range of methods available; impact on energy performance.
- Energy performance; relationship with Health and Safety; impact on the environment.
- Systems to measure performances; suitability for the organisation.
- Opportunities to improve performance; recent developments in best practice; new
products; services and technological innovations, assessing advantages and disadvantages;
recycling opportunities; information sources; external support programmes; external
suppliers.
- Resources; selection and
use to optimise energy usage.
Information
handling
- Sources of information
on usage; recording and storing information; making use of information; types
of information required; internal and external information; sufficiency and relevancy,
corrective actions.
- Sources of energy,
features and benefits; suppliers of energy; information on their products and
services.
Planning,
monitoring and evaluating energy usage
- Planning and gaining approval for resources, planning requirements for new systems;
sustainable developments.
- Evaluation
parameters; performance measures; selecting appropriate techniques to assess usage;
documenting results; specifying assumptions.
- Reporting procedures; to whom; using the findings; recording the changes in working
practice; advantages and disadvantages of different methods.
Organisational
context and legal requirements
- Structures and responsibilities; interrelationships of activities; needs of the
organisation; involving and motivating employees; information needs of individuals;
importance of monitoring energy performance.
- Policies and procedures; operational systems and practices.
- Health and Safety Legislation; effects on energy usage and savings.
- Environmental Legislation; effects on energy usage and savings.
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