What is ISO 50021‒Energy savings evaluators about?
ISO 50021 is an international standard that deals with solutions for energy management and energy savings.
ISO 50021 gives guidelines for selecting energy savings evaluators to determine ex-post (realized) energy savings for projects, organizations, and regions and gives general principles, and identifies the key factors to consider.
ISO 50021 also defines roles and responsibilities, recommends the required competence, and provides key elements for assessing the knowledge and skills of energy savings evaluators.
At the project and organization level, ISO 50021 on guidelines for selecting energy savings evaluators is beneficial to both internal and external energy savings evaluators.
Note: Selecting evaluators who calculate predicted energy savings is out of the scope of ISO 50021.
Who is ISO 50021‒Energy savings evaluators for?
ISO 50021 on energy savings evaluators is for:
- Government regulators/authorities dealing with energy-saving policies
- Any entity at the project level dealing with energy-saving evaluations
- Organizations that are looking for energy-saving solutions
- Authorities at the regional level dealing with energy-saving evaluations
Why should you use ISO 50021‒Energy savings evaluators?
Energy savings evaluations are widely used for assessing program effects and policy impacts, and for validation and/or verification of results at project, organization, and region levels.
ISO 50021 gives you evaluation methods to determine energy savings depending on the level (project, organization, or region) by providing the different knowledge and skills for each level, as requirements vary.
These energy savings evaluators, i.e., people who have knowledge and skills as per ISO 50021, help the entities to reduce the operating costs and determine financial returns, as well as helps the government regulators to understand the policy impacts. These evaluators also enable the financing institutions, to make loan or grant decisions.
ISO 50021 helps you for selecting the right energy savings evaluator, which is most suitable for your requirement at the organizational level or at the project level. It aids the leaders of organizations, to reduce operating costs, and control the risks. It also contributes at the regional level by helping the governments to acknowledge and improve the impacts of policies.
