EnMS-Doc Associates learned from the ISO website that ISO 50001:2011, the first edition was released on 15th June 2011.
Energy management has always been a part of ISO 14001, the international standard for environmental management system only if the person concerned wished to have energy management as one of the clauses in the requirements.
Energy management, for superior energy performance, for better energy efficiency and for reducing a significant cost related to energy indeed promotes positive aspect of environmental impact. It is an interesting phenomenon that when there is a drive for compliance for requirements, people tend to make more effort in erasing negative impacts rather than enhancing positive impacts.
For this reason, it is an inevitable outcome to have ISO 50001 the stand alone EnMS. ISO 50001 will enhance industry's improvement motive and skill in the business operation on account of energy related operation.
For more information, please visit ISO official site, in particular: http://www.iso.org/sites/iso50001launch/index.html
