The purpose of this section is to translate all your other preparatory/planning work into action plans for the coming period, typically one year. These plans will form the basis of your energy saving activities. Please note that action plans do not only have lists of technical investment projects but will include low cost, management and organisational activities.
The action plan is the specific action that will be taken to improve energy performance. Actions in this context are those activities that you are going to complete in the coming period.
How to implement
Targets should be SMART as shown above but action plans should be SMARTER to include Evaluated (or verified) and Reassessed. This means that you should verify the actual savings made on completion of an action and reassess or check for further opportunities or improvements. The level of effort required to verify actual savings will vary with the value and complexity of the savings opportunity. Verification of savings can often be complex in that you need to separate the effects of the relevant variables and other changes from those of the saving itself.
Prioritisation criteria for action plan items:
Legal requirement.
Low risk, low cost.
High profile item that might raise awareness of the program, e.g. lighting even if it is not a SEU.
Other items that will affect decisions include stakeholder resistance, technical capability, targets, ease of implementation, etc.
Toolkit
With reference to the worksheet ER8 ESO List of the the EnMS Tools spreadsheet, a simple way of identifying action plan items is using the “Status” column. The action items are those whose status is ‘in progress’. Using the Status column together with “Target Completion Date” column you can build an action plan for the coming period.
What is this?
The purpose of this section is to translate all your other preparatory/planning work into action plans for the coming period, typically one year. These plans will form the basis of your energy saving activities. Please note that action plans do not only have lists of technical investment projects but will include low cost, management and organisational activities.
The action plan is the specific action that will be taken to improve energy performance. Actions in this context are those activities that you are going to complete in the coming period.
How to implement
Targets should be SMART as shown above but action plans should be SMARTER to include Evaluated (or verified) and Reassessed. This means that you should verify the actual savings made on completion of an action and reassess or check for further opportunities or improvements. The level of effort required to verify actual savings will vary with the value and complexity of the savings opportunity. Verification of savings can often be complex in that you need to separate the effects of the relevant variables and other changes from those of the saving itself.
Prioritisation criteria for action plan items:
Toolkit
With reference to the worksheet ER8 ESO List of the the EnMS Tools spreadsheet, a simple way of identifying action plan items is using the “Status” column. The action items are those whose status is ‘in progress’. Using the Status column together with “Target Completion Date” column you can build an action plan for the coming period.