LRQA ISO 50001 thought for the week
11th July 2011
“The environmental performance aspect of ISO 50001 is clear; using energy has environmental implications both direct and indirect and what I mean by indirect is it’s when you buy energy off the electric grid somebody else has to generate it to get into the grid and that includes consumption of natural resources which could mean bio-renewable resources, it generates solid waste, it generates water discharges, and it generates you know emissions. So every element of energy that has to be generated has an environmental footprint associated with it. So again, it all goes back to the foundational point of energy efficiency. The less energy that’s used, the less corresponding environmental impact that comes along with it.”
EDWIN PINERO, INDEPENDENT CHAIRMAN OF ISO 50001 COMMITTEE