If your company wants to maximise energy savings with as little investment as possible, you may find these tips from a Burger King franchise in Spain useful. The improvements put in place by Burger King with the guidance of DEXMA and Energy Cost Control achieved a 17% reduction in its electricity costs. The franchise carried out what may seem like trivial activities, but they turned out to be decisive in optimising their energy usage.

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What happens when you land a project, create an energy efficiency plan and you see that your plan is not working? Don’t give up yet, we have some great insights and tips to share if you’re in this situation…

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The European Commission adopted the EU Energy Efficiency Directive 2012/27/EU on 25 October 2012. This policy establishes a set of binding measures to help the union reach its main target: 20% energy efficiency by 2020. What’s more, this will pave the way for further energy efficiency improvements beyond that date. Under this policy, all the EU member states are required to use energy more efficiently from the transformation of energy and its distribution to its final consumption.

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When talking about energy management, there are some words or terms that always come up.

The following is a dictionary with some of the relevant terms that will help you throughout the energy management process. Even though we have tried to make it as complete as possible, we would like to continually update this version with words you would like us to include.

If there’s a word you think fits well in the energetic literature please mention it in a comment. We will gladly expand this Energy Management Dictionary with as many terms as the energy efficiency community considers necessary.

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The term ISO 50001 may not tell you anything in itself, but it can actually mean a lot to your business and your energy management. It establishes energy management requirements with guidance for use, but what does this imply? Keep reading to understand basic facts about ISO 50001 certification.

The ISO 50001 was first published in 2011 and has since spread worldwide. Why? To harmonise the requirements for a clear, documented continuous process to reduce energy consumption in organisations.

This article includes the basic facts about ISO 50001. We will cover topics such as its purpose, its target users, its components, among others. Let’s start with what an Energy Management System is. If you want more detail, you can see this other article about how software can help you achieve your ISO 50001 certification.

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Have you ever heard the climate change-related expression ‘the carbon diet’? The term first appeared in 2000 in the USA as an encouragement for Americans to reduce their carbon footprints. Typical measures for this initiative were riding a bike instead of driving, or changing standard lightbulbs for eco-friendly ones.

A few years later, the world’s environment was beginning to sound like a weight loss campaign, with statements such as ‘Low Carbon Diet: A 30 Day Program to Lose 5.000 Pounds’.

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Do you ever get the feeling that your company’s energy bills are way too high?

Do you keep repeating yourself that there’s nothing you can do to reduce your company’s energy bill?

Have you thought about ways to cut energy costs but have no clue where to start?

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Reducing by more than 30% the energy costs of hotels and office buildings is the EQUALTIQ project’s ultimate goal. The consortium is confident that they will achieve this without affecting, even improving, users’ comfort.  To enable these savings, this project partially funded by KIC Innoenergy will develop an Integrated Energy Management System. The system will consist of improving DEXMA’s App Store with 4 new APPs introduced in the existing software.

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