A strategic energy plan can help optimize your energy use and reduce your GHG emissions regardless of the size of your business and your annual energy costs.
Like a strategic customer development or retention plan, a strategic energy plan is a proactive, structured roadmap that guides you towards specific goals. It helps you strategize to meet your future needs, taking into account local and global trends, technological innovations and environmental imperatives. It can also reduce risk, help you stand out from the competition, create added value and improve your resilience.
A strategic energy plan has a number of benefits:
- It helps you develop a vision
- It facilitates cost control
- It clarifies your goals and how to achieve them
- It sets out key milestones and performance indicators to check progress towards your goals
- It helps you plan for the required resources
- It contributes to the company’s reputation
- It promotes long-term competitiveness
Plan structure
Take a four-step approach to optimize your energy performance and achieve your goals:
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Plan:
Start by setting clear energy efficiency goals, such as reducing consumption or GHG emissions. First, conduct an energy audit to identify consumption points and opportunities for improvement. On that basis, develop an action plan with the measures to be implemented, the budget and the monitoring indicators.
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Implement:
Take action by implementing the planned measures such as installing equipment, improving insulation or optimizing systems. Ensure teams are trained to properly use the new equipment, and tell stakeholders about the changes.
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Check:
Measure the results and compare them to your goals. Track actual consumption, verify equipment compliance and analyze any discrepancies. This step will confirm the effectiveness of what you did or will identify points to be corrected.
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Act:
Make the necessary adjustments to improve performance. Document best practices and lessons learned, to build on the experience. Finally, restart a new PICA cycle to pursue continuous improvement.
Prioritize your energy efficiency measures
If you want to move forward at your own pace while making the most of your benefits, a structured approach to energy efficiency based on Maslow’s pyramid is an excellent place to start. It guides you step by step, helping you prioritize the most effective measures while keeping your goals, resources and deadlines in mind.
It can also help you prioritize the actions in your plan.
Go further
Learn how many of our customers have created and implemented a strategic energy plan to reduce their operating costs and GHG emissions.
Bridgestone plant
Bridgestone plant
See how a comprehensive decarbonization plan has allowed this tyre plant to reduce annual natural gas consumption by 3,740,400 m3 and become a model for others to follow.
Canadian Apartment Properties REIT (CAPREIT)
Learn how a holistic approach to energy efficiency has allowed this major property management company to save money, create jobs and make its housing more appealing to target clienteles.
Jewish General Hospital
Since 2009, the hospital has been investing in energy efficiency improvements with Énergir’s technical and financial support – and the results are in!
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