Energy audits as if management counts

Is psychology one of the factors we forget when we lament over the low implementation rate of energy efficiency measures? Audits and assessments are often delivering a list of measures to be undertaken in sequence and ranged according to profitability. The problem however is that these lists lack context. The facility managers may have no problem to take the advice but in the business there are many other concerns than just energy and energy bills. And these concerns should be addresses to create a positive situation for the energy efficiency measures rather than a suspicious, indifferent or even hostile.

Alliance to Save Energy in the U.S. has published a report called "World-Class Energy Assessments" that addresses and highlights the need to involve the entire business management and in a way that they find appropriate. The method has some resemblance with so called road-mapping that also has as its basic idea to be more comprehensive than just stopping with the technology potential as such.