Informed by the authors' extensive experience in helping organizations improve the performance of their management systems, Inside Energy: Developing and Managing an ISO 50001 Energy Management System covers how to apply each of the many requirements of the standard in a systematic and comprehensive manner. It discusses how converting an existing s

Charles H. Eccleston is affiliated with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and has over 20 years experience developing environmental and energy-related policies and analyses. He has been elected onto the ISO/PC 242 working group, whose mission is to establish the ISO 50001 EnMS standard.

Frederic March is a consultant affiliated with the National Association of Environmental Professionals. He is an environmental-civil engineer with extensive policy and planning experience in the United States and several other nations in Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. Since 1970, he has provided the technical leadership for about thirty projects involving interdisciplinary environmental policy and impact analysis.

Timothy Cohen is a consultant affiliated with the National Association of Environmental Professionals.

General requirements for the energy management system. Management responsibility. Energy policy. Energy planning. Implementation and operation. Checking performance. Management review. Energy consumption, generation, sustainability, and energy systems. Perspectives on energy efficiency and conservation. Peak oil: The looming oil crisis. Sustainability and energy policy. Global climate change. Selected key ISO 50001 definitions. The energy assessment. Methods, tools, and techniques. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster.