European foreword

This document (EN 16247‑1:2022) has been prepared by the Joint Technical Committee CEN-CENELEC/JTC 14 “Energy management and energy efficiency in the framework of energy transition”, the secretariat of which is held by UNI.

This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by February 2023, and conflicting national standards shall be withdrawn at the latest by February 2023.

Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. CEN-CENELEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.

This document supersedes EN 16247‑1:2012.

Significant changes compared to the previous edition are:

a) Terms and definition updated to be compliant with ISO 50001;
b) New Annex A Energy Audit Process Flow Diagram added;
c) New Annex B Examples of energy Audit level added;
d) New Annex C Sampling (Based on ISO 19011:2018 Guidelines for auditing management systems) added.

This Part covers the general requirements common to all energy audits. There are four further parts of the EN 16247 series, which provide additional material to Part 1 for four specific sectors.

The other parts of EN 16247 “Energy audits” are:

— Part 2: Buildings;
— Part 3: Processes;
— Part 4: Transport;
— Part 5: Competence of energy auditors.

This document has been prepared under a mandate given to CEN and CENELEC by the European Commission and the European Free Trade Association.

Any feedback and questions on this document should be directed to the users’ national standards body/national committee. A complete listing of these bodies can be found on the CEN and CENELEC websites.

According to the CEN-CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organisations of the following countries are bound to implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye and the United Kingdom.

BS EN 16247-1:2022

Energy audits - General requirements

Current

Published:

30 Sep 2022