METI / ECCJ / ACE Training Program MTPEC05 (2006.08)

2.9 Examples of Energy Officerfs Energy-Saving Promotion Tasks

No	Category	Energy officer’s tasks	Examples of documents to be drafted
1	Energy-saving fundamental policies	Gives assistance when drafting the energy-saving fundamental policy. Calculates necessary investments/costs based on the fundamental policy.	・Energy-saving fundamental policy and budget document
2	Energy-saving promotion framework	Develops an energy-saving promotion organization plan, and decides on the energy-saving promotion organization framework after coordination with the employer and department heads. Periodically convenes meetings of the energy-saving promotion committee, and acts as the committee’s secretariat.	・Energy-saving promotion organization chart
3	Management standards	Develops the mandatory management standards as stipulated in the legally established criteria, prepares other management standards necessary for his/her company, and also designates the department responsible for the management criteria. When preparing the management criteria, the energy management officer should act as the coordinator and provide related departments with necessary information on the basic philosophy, the format, the responsible department and the deadline.	・Management standards drafting standards ・Management standards, etc.
4	Identifying actual energy consumption	Investigates actual energy consumption, and makes out the basic units management chart.	・Basic units management chart, etc.
5	Energy-saving plan and target setting	Designates the energy-saving tasks for the entire company and for each department once a year, and quantitatively sets out applicable targets.	・Energy-saving plan
6	Education and prize-giving for employees	Educates employees on an entire company basis as well as on an each department basis. Works with the employer to establish a prize-giving scheme that honors a department or worker that contributes to energy conservation.	・Education plan table
7	Periodic internal reporting on energy-saving efforts	Reports energy-saving efforts to the employer and each department on a monthly and yearly basis by using the energy basic units management chart.
8	Improvements in energy-saving efforts	Develops an improvement plan (e.g., company-level energy-saving efforts and facility enhancement) after hearing opinions from related departments.　Drafts a workplace-level improvement plan after hearing opinions from related departments.	・Energy-saving improvement plan
9	Procedures/reporting scheme in accordance with Energy Conservation Law	・Drafts the periodic report. ・Prepares a preliminary draft of the medium-to-long term plan.	・Periodic report ・Medium-to-long term plan (Note 1) ・Fuels, etc. (electricity) consumption report (Note 2)
10	Self-development by energy management officers	Remains informed of state-of-the-art technologies and other firm’s best practices.

(Note 1) Only a Type 1 Designated Energy Management Factory must prepare its medium-to-long term plan.
(Note 2) A Type 2 Designated Energy Management Factory must submit the “fuels, etc. (electricity) consumption report” if the factory’s energy consumption in the　preceding year is equal to or more than the eligibility criteria for a Type 1 Designated Energy Management Factory (i.e., fuels, etc.: 3,000kL (crude oil equivalent); or electricity: 12 million kWh).

2.10 Actual Employment Situation of
Energy Managers by Industry
[ ECCJ 1992 ](A)

2.11 To enable the same person to act as energy
manager and also the qualified person for energy management

* To enable the energy manager/qualified person for energy management to carry out his/her activities effectively
*The following conditions must be satisfied. [Regarding rationalization of energy use, when it is recognized that there is no problem in managing the maintenance of equipment that consumes energy, the improvement of the method of using energy, the monitoring of the use of energy, and the duties stipulated in Article 10, and also when approval has been obtained from the head of the Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry]

Article 10: Maintenance of equipment related to rationalization of energy use, reporting on the work by issuing periodic reports, for example, and performing witnessed inspections

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