Energy Management

Aim

The energy transition places new demands on future leaders. When the conditions for availability of resources and energy resources change, energy management needs to be pursued proactively and with long-term visions and energy strategies. The course intends to provide knowledge about the conditions, opportunities and limitations that exist regarding the companies' energy management actions, both for today's and future energy systems. The course participants will obtain an understanding of how the problems in the energy field have been transformed into requirements for the companies, both in the form of legal requirements and requirements from stakeholders, and how these requirements affect how the companies conduct their energy management activities. What an energy management system means will be emphasized as well as how change concepts can be linked to energy efficiency and how market-based / economic benefits can be generated through a well-implemented energy management work. The student should will also gain an understanding of the importance of leadership and how leadership approaches can be applied to energy management in organizations. The course also aims to give an understanding of how the energy efficiency work can be affected / changed in the future as a result of, for example, increased digitization, and also deals with leadership aspects related to energy management.

After completing the course the student should be able to:

• describe how decisions are made regarding energy issues within the manufacturing industry and factors that affect this
• describe how energy management creates benefits
• report how energy management can be promoted using data management and analysis methods

Content

The energy transition imposes new demands on future leaders. As the conditions for resources and energy availability change, energy management needs to be conducted proactively and with a long-term vision and energy strategy. The course aims to provide knowledge about the conditions, opportunities, and limitations regarding manufacturing companies' work with energy management, both for today's and future energy systems. Among other things, the following topics are covered: the manufacturing companies' energy efficiency work and related barriers and drivers, energy management in general and in relation to standards and energy policy, non-energy benefits for energy efficiency, energy management systems, digitalization and energy data analysis for energy management work, application of LEAN for energy systems, and leadership in energy management work.