Important tips on developing energy efficiency culture in your company

Setting, measuring and tracking "energy metrics" key to developing company wide energy management culture

Senior executives at DuPont Sustainable Solutions, Davide Vassallo and Christopher A. Smith believe that setting measurable energy consumption goals is a key step in developing a successful energy efficiency culture. A commitment to track these metrics is also essential to achieving continuous improvement in energy efficiency. Here are some helpful tips on “setting measurable goals” from their 2011 white paper on energy efficiency.

• Integrate energy consumption metrics into all metrics tracked by your organisation
• Energy metrics must be developed in a way that every employee can relate to and understand how their behaviour and activities can affect energy efficiency
• Energy metrics need to be easily accessible by all levels of your organisation
• Energy metrics need to be constantly updated to help develop “commitment to improvement” culture

Read more in DuPont's 2011 white paper titled Optimizing the success of industrial energy improvement programs by driving culture change: Lessons learned at DuPont

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