BPS Piloting New ISO Energy Standard

Los Angeles, CA, Sept. 1, 2010 -- A new ISO standard for energy management will be implemented in a pilot program at Bentley Prince Street by Ecos, a provider of utility energy efficiency programs, according to Sustainable Planet.

ISO 50001 provides commercial and industrial organizations with the first internationally recognized framework of management strategies – including methods for planning, managing, measuring and continually improving energy utilization -- that can be voluntarily implemented to improve energy performance and reduce energy costs.

The program concurrently pilots the use of ISO 50001 and Superior Energy Performance (SEP), a related national voluntary certification program used to verify energy performance improvements in participating facilities.
 
Conformance to the ISO 50001 standard is a foundational element of the SEP program, a U.S. certification that provides a transparent, uniform system for measuring and verifying actual energy performance improvements - normalized for production levels, weather and other significant factors - resulting from the implementation of ISO 50001.
 
The program at Bentley Prince Street is being jointly funded by the U.S. Department of Energy through its Energy Management Demonstrations initiative, as well as by Southern California Edison and Southern California Gas Company’s partnership for Continuous Energy Improvement.

Bentley Prince Street, California’s largest commercial carpet manufacturer, saw the value of the pilot to help reach its energy intensity reduction target of 25 percent over 10 years.