ISO 50001: Energy Management Certification

ISO 50001 is an international standard for energy management systems that sets out clear requirements to help companies take a structured approach to systematic, measurable improvements in energy performance.  By understanding the company’s energy use, organizations can identify efficiencies and improve energy performance, can lower consumption, reduce costs and ensure more efficient use of equipment and processes.

Certification of your energy management system demonstrates compliance with ISO 50001 regulatory requirements. It also shows your commitment to improving energy performance and provides a reliable basis for transparent and trusted communication of your organization’s energy results.

What is the ISO 50001 standard?

ISO 50001 is applicable to organizations of any size, sector or geographical location. It provides a structured framework for establishing an energy management system that drives more efficient and effective use of energy in your operations and throughout supply chains. By complying with the standard’s requirements, organizations can systematically understand and reduce energy use, strengthening operational outcomes and reducing environmental impact.

ISO 50001 helps you:

• Establish a systematic approach to managing energy performance across your operations
• Conduct an energy review to identify significant energy uses and prioritize improvement opportunities
• Set objectives and action plans that drive continual improvement in energy performance
• Implement consistent processes for monitoring, measuring and analyzing energy use
• Improve energy performance, including energy efficiency, use and energy consumption 
• Ensure effective monitoring, measurement, documentation and reporting of energy consumption
• Support emission reduction initiatives and reduce adverse impact from energy use Promote energy‑efficient practices internally and across the value chain

The standard is built on ISO’s Harmonized Structure (HS), a set of aligned clauses that make it easy to be integrated with other management system standards such as ISO 14001 for environment and ISO 9001 for quality.

 Benefits of becoming certified

Certifying your energy management system to the ISO 50001 standard may benefit your organisation in many ways. A certified management system confirms that you are working structured and strategically to reduce the organisation’s environmental footprint, and that you are committed to further improvement of environmental management.

Certification to the standard can contribute to:

• Improvement of energy performance, including energy efficiency, use and energy consumption.
• Reducing environmental impact, including greenhouse gas emissions without affecting operations and simultaneously increasing profitability.
• Continual improvement of the energy management systems.
• Ensuring measurement, documentation, reporting and benchmarking of energy consumption.
• Credible market communication about energy performance efforts.

Getting started

DNV is an accredited third-party certification body and can provide relevant training and certification services for your energy management system locally or globally. As in all management system standards, successful implementation depends on commitment from all levels and functions of the organisation.

Learn more about how to get started on the road to certification.