Developing a demand management plan and knowing about the energy management system are important for energy efficiency investments. As energy managers, learners need to know the methodology, benchmarks, and audit procedures needed to set up an efficient energy management system. In this way, they will know what can or cannot be done as they perform their analysis and calculations for energy efficiency investment.

Learners will then be able to develop demand management plans by conducting pre-audits checks on-site and developing demand management or integrated energy solution proposals for their organisation or clients of their organisation.

In this course, learners will learn how they can
- Develop an energy management system
- Conduct economic analysis and calculate potential savings based on prevailing market prices and usage
- Design demand management plans based on energy demand and market prices

Engineering  professionals  who  intend  to  build  their  careers  as  energy  managers  need  to  understand principles  related  to  the  management  and  economics  of  energy.  This  module  covers  the  setting  up  of energy  management  systems  (including  an  introduction  to  ISO  50001),  the  formation  of  the  energy management  team  and  the  integration  of  energy  management  systems  into  business  practice.  Also covered  are  Singapore’s  energy  management  policies  and  energy  market  tariff  structure  to  enable better  evaluation  of  supply  contracts  for  reducing  energy  costs. 

Participants  will  also  learn  how  to evaluate  financial  attractiveness  of  energy  retrofit  projects  using  simple  payback,  ROI,  time  value  of money,  etc  and  understand  the  various  energy  performance  contracting  models  such  as  guaranteed savings  and  shared  savings.  Candidates  taking  the  EME  paper  are  to  be  familiar  with:

1.  Energy  Conservation  Act  2012;  Energy  Conservation  (Energy  Management  Practices) Regulations  2013;  revised  31st May  2014
2.  SS/ISO  50001  Energy  Management  Systems  –  Requirements  with  guidance  for  use
3.  Energy  Market  Authority  –  Electricity  Policies  and  Regulations

Learners are assumed to be:
• Knowledgeable of electrical engineering competencies
• Able to listen and speak English at a proficiency level equivalent to the Employability Skills System (ESS) level 4
• Able to read and write English at a proficiency level equivalent to ESS level 4
• Able to process numbers at a proficiency level equivalent to ESS level 4
• Possess at least 1 year working experience in engineering-related jobs
• Possess knowledge of interpreting process diagrams and computer literate

The TP shall assess the suitability of learners by requesting for their CVs.

Learners keen to join without the necessary pre-requisite knowledge and experience stated above may be assessed if they have other relevant experience to access the course, on a case-by-case basis.