Energy Management Principles Questions and Answers

Answer: A

The three are the technical core of the system and are constantly confused: the review is the investigation, the indicator is the measure and the baseline is the reference. An indicator without a baseline reports a number nobody can judge.

Answer: B

Correct answer: 1-Q, 2-R, 3-P

Setting objectives is planning, operating to the control criteria is doing, and the management review is acting - the stage at which the organisation decides what to change on the strength of what the checking found. Checking, the remaining stage, covers the monitoring and internal auditing that feed that review.

Answer: C

Correct answer: 1 and 2 only are correct

Statements 1 and 2 are correct: certification attests that a system is in place and working, not that the site is efficient, and competence requirements are targeted at the people who influence the significant energy uses. Statement 3 conflates two distinct things - correction fixes the particular nonconformity, while corrective action addresses the cause so that it does not recur. Doing only the first is why the same finding reappears at every audit.

Answer: D

Correct answer: achieving a stated absolute level of energy efficiency

The standard requires a system and continual improvement of energy performance, not the attainment of any particular efficiency - which would be meaningless across industries and plants of different ages. Identifying the significant energy uses, establishing performance indicators and holding management reviews at planned intervals are all genuine requirements.

Answer: A

The measures belong in the action plan, which changes yearly, whereas the policy should stand for several years. Putting a schedule into the policy means either revising the policy constantly or leaving it out of date.

Answer: B

A rise in output or a hotter summer can conceal a real improvement entirely, and an unnormalised indicator will show it. Establishing that before questioning the measures avoids abandoning a programme that is in fact working.

Answer: C

Correct answer: nobody has been made accountable for the readings

Metering produces information, and information alone changes nothing. Consumption falls when someone owns a number, is measured against it and has the authority to act on what it shows. Sub-metering without that accountability is a common and expensive disappointment, and the remedy is organisational rather than technical.

Answer: D

Production, purchasing and engineering must all act, and only the level above them can require it and fund it. That authority is precisely why the signature matters and why a policy signed lower down achieves so little.

Answer: A

Continual improvement is indeed required, which is what the reason states, but improvement from a poor starting point still leaves a poor absolute performance. The certificate attests to the management arrangements and not to any level of efficiency.

Answer: B

Projects produce a step change and then decay as controls drift, whereas the system's monitoring, operational control and review are what keep the step in place and find the next one. The two are complementary rather than alternatives.