Industrial energy transition maturity
Your industrial energy trajectory, measured by site and turned into a costed action plan.
10 themes, a 5-level scale. And the action that moves each level to the next.
The framework’s 10 themes, already written from L1 to L5. One company, one business unit, or 300 at once.
Industrial energy transition maturity
10 themes, 5-level scale.
Nordhavn Industries
53 / 100
They measure their maturity with Datamensio
An example
This could be your situation.
Take one company as an example: three sites, three spreadsheets, no shared answer.
Nobody can consolidate.
Nordhavn Industries, 2,400 people in Hamburg, Lyon and Porto. A client asks where the group stands. Each site answers in its own spreadsheet, with its own scales.
Three weeks, a single base.
One Datamensio maturity framework · Energy transition of industrial sites assessment launched across all three sites at once, from the managers’ interview notes. The framework was already written, its 10 themes and levels L1 to L5 too.
Two costs avoided before being committed.
A score of 53 out of 100, with the gap concentrated on three themes. The AI companion spotted that two actions duplicated those of another audit. The committee report took one sentence to request.
What it saved them
- 3sites measured on the same base, instead of three questionnaires to reconcile
- 2duplicate actions caught before the spend
- 1committee report, with no manual rework
These figures are an example. They could be yours.
The standard imposes processes. Datamensio says where you stand.
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The framework is already written
Themes, questions and levels L1 to L5, all written. You do not start from an empty spreadsheet.
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The score lands the same day
Online, by self-assessment link or in interview. Theme by theme, comparable over time.
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The gap becomes a costed plan
Every step up carries its action. The AI prioritises on expected effect, not on the order of the standard.
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Progress can be demonstrated
Campaign after campaign, against your target and against your own past. That is what your board asks for.
The maturity scale
One level, the next, and the action that links the two.
It is this mechanism, a level, a level above it, and the action connecting the two, that turns an observation into a trajectory.
Are energy gains achieved after an action or investment verified against measured data?
- N1
No verification after commissioning. The gain remains the one stated in the investment case.
- N2
A few projects are checked, on the energy manager’s own initiative, with no stable method or scope.
- N3
Every significant action is verified against metering data, with a baseline defined before the works and any gap commented on.
- N4
Verification is systematic, adjusted for variations in activity and conditions, and gaps trigger a rework of the setting or the project.
- N5
Measured results feed the assumptions of subsequent business cases and the trajectory is revised accordingly, with a documented history of revisions.
Action to move from L2 to L3
Define a costed baseline before the works for every energy project above the site’s investment threshold, and put verification of the measured gain on the agenda of the quarterly energy review.
« With Datamensio, we meet our objectives far more efficiently. The ERDF inspection services and our supervising ministry particularly appreciated an approach that gives them reliable data. »
Director, CCI 94CCI Île-de-France
« We believe this is the most suitable solution to scale our transformation project and measure impact according to our needs. »
Maja SucekChief Operating Officer, Interreg Danube
Rarely on its own
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What this framework covers
Industrial energy transition is not a single subject but a stack of levers: metering consumption at the right granularity, reducing process needs, recovering waste heat, electrifying or substituting fuels, producing or contracting decarbonised energy, and managing flexibility and load shedding. On top of this come investment trade-offs, production team competence, and the ability to hold a trajectory across several budget cycles. Each lever has its own timeframe and its own owner within the organisation.
In practice, steering runs into simple questions that are rarely settled. Does metering go down to workshop and utility level, or does it stop at the delivery point? Are the gains achieved on a furnace or a line verified after the works, or only estimated in the investment case? Who decides between a heat recovery project and replacing a piece of production equipment, and on what criterion? Most sites have ideas and one-off measurements, less often a sustained trajectory that is comparable from one entity to another.
The context itself has shifted. For a long time the subject was driven by energy cost, with reactive sobriety plans. It is now structuring itself around long-term commitments, process electrification and the actual availability of connected power. One frequent confusion is worth clearing up: energy maturity is not carbon maturity. A site can cut its footprint by switching supplier without having improved process efficiency, and vice versa. The assessment separates the two, while showing where they converge.
A compliance check ends with a yes or no against a given requirement. A maturity assessment asks a different question: what level of control does each practice sit at, and what concrete action moves it to the next level. The score per theme and the gap to target generate the action plan, which the AI groups into a prioritised roadmap. The service catalogue then opens a solution against each item, with its cost, timeframe and expected impact on the score.
The framework is ready to use and adapts to your site portfolio. The AI adjusts the themes, questions and levels to your processes and energy uses, or builds a variant from your own documents: energy review, investment plans, committee minutes. Results compare across business units and over time, on an identical basis.
Reference standard: Datamensio maturity framework · Energy transition of industrial sites
The themes assessed
Governance and energy trajectory
Existence of a multi-year trajectory, executive committee sponsorship, roles and responsibilities, alignment with the investment plan, periodic review of commitments.
Metering and consumption data
Granularity of metering by workshop and utility, reliability and frequency of readings, historisation, reconciliation with billing, use within production tools.
Process performance
Knowledge of specific consumption per product or line, identification of significant energy uses, settings and operation, drift monitoring, comparison between equivalent lines.
Utilities and heat recovery
State of steam, compressed air, cooling and lighting networks, leak detection, inventory of waste heat sources, heat recovery projects launched and verified.
Energy mix and decarbonisation
Share of fossil fuels, substitution and process electrification, local production, supply contracts, alignment with the emissions inventory.
Flexibility and grid relationship
Load shedding capacity, peak management, subscribed power and connection, storage, load management according to tariff signals.
Investment and economic trade-offs
Decision criteria, consideration of total cost and internal carbon price, business case build, use of funding schemes, verification of gains after works.
Skills and team engagement
Training of operators and maintenance staff, energy-conscious operating instructions, upward flow of shop-floor ideas, workshop supervisor engagement.
Supply chain and procurement
Energy criteria in equipment specifications, requirements towards suppliers, consideration of energy in subcontracting decisions.
Monitoring, indicators and continuous improvement
Energy performance indicators, scope and adjustment to activity, reporting to sites, capitalisation on lessons learned, comparison over time.
A short version of the framework is available for the online self-assessment.
Frequently asked questions
Does this assessment lead to a certification?
No. This is a maturity framework, with no certifying body and no binding requirement. It measures where your practices stand and sets out the trajectory to progress. If you are separately pursuing an energy management system, the assessment provides a reusable foundation.
How does this differ from an energy audit?
An energy audit covers a site’s flows and savings potential at a given point in time. The maturity assessment covers the organisation’s ability to identify, decide, deliver and verify. The two complement each other: the audit says where the gains are, the assessment says why they have not yet been captured.
How long does the assessment take?
The short version can be completed in a single working session. The full version, run collaboratively with several contributors per site, typically spans one to two weeks, with most of the time spent gathering input from production, maintenance and procurement.
Can the framework be adapted to our processes?
Yes. Themes, questions and level wording can all be changed. The AI produces a variant tailored to your energy uses from your internal documents, or you start from a blank base. The framework is yours.
How can sites with different processes be compared?
The comparison covers steering practices, not absolute consumption. A foundry site and an assembly site can be compared on metering quality, gains verification or governance. Benchmarking across business units builds on this common base.
Is the carbon topic covered?
Partly, through the energy mix and electrification. Emissions accounting, scopes and offsetting strategy belong to a separate framework. A cross-cutting roadmap consolidates both assessments without duplicating actions.
What does the action plan produced contain?
Every gap between the score achieved and the target generates an action. The AI groups these into a prioritised roadmap, per site or consolidated across the portfolio. The service catalogue opens a solution against each item, with cost, timeframe and impact on the score.
Where is the data hosted?
In France, with OVH, with backup at Scaleway. No transfer outside the European Union. The AI models used can be selected, including from European solutions.