Getting Municipal Energy Management Systems ISO 50001 Certified: A Study with 28 European Municipalities

Jan Kaselofsky, Marika Rošā, Anda Jekabsone, Solenne Favre, Gabriel Loustalot, Michaël Toma, Jose Pablo Delgado Marín, Manuel Moreno Nicolás and Emanuele Cosenza
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Jan Kaselofsky: Energy, Climate and Transport Policy Division, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, 42103 Wuppertal, Germany
Marika Rošā: Institute of Energy Systems and Environment, Faculty of Electrical and Environmental Engineering, Riga Technical University, 1658 Riga, Latvia
Anda Jekabsone: Institute of Energy Systems and Environment, Faculty of Electrical and Environmental Engineering, Riga Technical University, 1658 Riga, Latvia
Solenne Favre: MT Partenaires Ingénierie, 33200 Bordeaux, France
Gabriel Loustalot: MT Partenaires Ingénierie, 33200 Bordeaux, France
Michaël Toma: MT Partenaires Ingénierie, 33200 Bordeaux, France
Jose Pablo Delgado Marín: EuroVértice Consultores, 30100 Murcia, Spain
Manuel Moreno Nicolás: EuroVértice Consultores, 30100 Murcia, Spain
Emanuele Cosenza: Project Development, SOGESCA Srl, 35030 Rùbano, Italy

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 7, 1-17

Abstract: Managing energy use by municipalities should be an important part of local energy and climate policy. The ISO 50001 standard constitutes an internationally recognized catalogue of requirements for systematic energy management. Currently, this standard is mostly implemented by companies. Our study presents an approach where consultants supported 28 European municipalities in establishing energy management systems. A majority (71%) of these municipalities had achieved ISO 50001 certification by the end of our study. We also conducted two surveys to learn more about motivations and challenges when it comes to establishing municipal energy management systems. We found that organizational challenges and resource constraints were the most important topics in this regard. Based on the experiences in our study we present lessons learned regarding supporting municipalities in establishing energy management systems.

Keywords: local climate and energy policy; energy management; ISO 50001; motivations; challenges (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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