Energy efficiency maturity · Directive (EU) 2023/1791
Your energy efficiency obligations, measured site by site and translated 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.
Energy efficiency maturity · Directive (EU) 2023/1791
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 Directive (EU) 2023/1791 on energy efficiency (recast) 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.
02
The score lands the same day
Online, by self-assessment link or in interview. Theme by theme, comparable over time.
03
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.
04
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, one level, a higher level, and the action that links the two, that turns a finding into a trajectory.
Are recommendations from the energy audit subject to documented follow-up through to implementation or reasoned rejection?
- N1
No follow-up. The audit report is archived, and the recommendations are not carried into any management document.
- N2
Recommendations are copied into a table, with no designated owner or deadline. Progress is not updated.
- N3
Each recommendation has an owner, a deadline, and a status. Progress is reviewed periodically and rejections are justified in writing.
- N4
The register is reviewed with costing, payback periods, and a tracked budget decision. Gains achieved are verified through metering.
- N5
The register feeds the site’s multi-year investment plan. Gaps between expected and observed gains are analysed and used to correct the assessment method.
Action to move from Level 2 to Level 3
Assign an owner and a deadline to each recommendation from the latest audit report, put progress status on the agenda of the monthly production review, and require a written justification for any discarded recommendation.
« 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
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What this framework covers
Directive (EU) 2023/1791, which entered into force in October 2023, recasts Directive 2012/27/EU and tightens its mechanisms. It makes the Union’s energy efficiency target binding, applies the energy efficiency first principle to investment decisions, and shifts the trigger for corporate obligations from a size criterion to annual energy consumption. Above a first consumption threshold, the company must implement a certified energy management system. Above a lower threshold, it must have an energy audit carried out and document follow-up on the recommendations. The directive also requires waste heat to be inventoried and its recovery examined.
For an extractive site or an ore processing plant, practical application raises questions that few organisations settle properly. Is the obligation threshold calculated at group level, legal entity level, or site level, and who consolidates the consumption of crushers, conveyors, dewatering pumps, and the vehicle fleet? Have the recommendations from previous audits been reviewed, costed, decided upon, or shelved for lack of an owner? Does metering allow consumption to be attributed to a process, or does it stop at the supplier’s delivery point?
One confusion comes up repeatedly: ISO 50001 certification exempts a company from the energy audit, but it does not exempt it from demonstrating follow-up on improvement measures or from inventorying waste heat. Another point of context for the extractive sector: the same consumption and energy intensity data feed into reporting under the emissions trading system, taxonomy indicators, and obligations under the carbon border adjustment mechanism. A poorly instrumented energy setup undermines all three areas at once.
A compliance audit settles the matter with a yes or no: the energy audit was carried out within the deadline, the management system is certified, the register exists. The maturity assessment answers a different question: at what level of control do your practices stand, and what specific action moves you to the next level. Between a site that endures its audit every four years and a site that manages its energy intensity by process, the gap is not a compliance gap, it is a maturity gap.
Within Datamensio, the framework is ready to use and adaptable. The AI adjusts the themes, questions, and levels to your configuration, whether quarry, underground mine, crushing unit, or processing site, or builds a tailored version from your energy audit reports and existing procedures.
Reference standard: Directive (EU) 2023/1791 on energy efficiency (recast)
The themes assessed
Scope and applicable obligations
Calculation of final annual consumption, identification of the applicable threshold, legal scope and site scope, delivery deadlines, traceability of the demonstration.
Energy governance
Formalised energy policy, reporting line of the energy officer, mandate and resources, management commitment, periodic performance review.
Energy management system
Process coverage, certification scope, significant energy uses, objectives and targets, alignment with ISO 14001.
Energy audit and action plan
Auditor qualification, scope covered, quality of input data, prioritisation of recommendations, costing of payback periods.
Metering and consumption data
Instrumentation of major loads, breakdown by process and by workshop, reliability and frequency of readings, multi-site consolidation, management of vehicle fleet data.
Tracking of improvement measures
Register of measures identified, designation of owners, progress, justification for discarded measures, verification of gains achieved.
Waste heat and recovery
Inventory of residual heat sources, technical and economic assessment of recovery options, review of heat networks, documented decisions.
Procurement and investment
Application of the energy efficiency first principle to investment decisions, energy criteria in specifications, replacement of end-of-life equipment.
Skills and awareness
Training operators in energy-saving practices, awareness of equipment shutdowns, in-house energy analysis skills, external support engaged.
Reporting and regulatory consistency
Reporting to authorities and stakeholders, reuse of data for emissions allowances, taxonomy, and non-financial reporting, audit trail.
A short version of the framework is available for the online self-assessment.
Frequently asked questions
Does the assessment replace the regulatory energy audit?
No. The energy audit required by the directive must be carried out by a qualified professional under the arrangements set out in national transposition. The maturity assessment measures the strength of your setup and prepares for this audit, it does not replace it and issues no certificate.
What is the difference between a compliance audit and a maturity assessment?
A compliance audit checks whether a requirement is met and concludes with a gap. The assessment positions your practices on a progressive scale and indicates the action that moves you up a level. The assessment prepares, the audit validates.
Our sites are ISO 50001 certified, is the assessment still useful?
Yes. Certification attests to the existence of the management system, it does not measure the degree of ownership by operators or the quality of process-level metering. The assessment highlights these gaps and allows certified sites to be compared with one another.
How long does the evaluation take?
The short version can be completed in 20 to 30 minutes by an energy officer. The full version, run collaboratively with site managers, maintenance, and management control, generally spans one to two weeks, most of the time being spent collecting consumption data.
Can the framework be adapted to our facilities?
Yes. Themes, questions, and levels can be modified, and the AI produces a version tailored to a quarry, an underground mine, or a processing unit based on your documents. You remain the owner of the resulting framework.
Can several sites be compared with one another?
Yes. The same framework applied to several business units produces a comparable score per theme, an internal benchmark, and a comparison with previous campaigns. A cross-site roadmap consolidates the action plans of individual sites.
How does this assessment fit with our carbon obligations?
Consumption and energy intensity data feed into reporting under the emissions trading system, taxonomy indicators, and the carbon border adjustment mechanism. Assessing them once avoids rebuilding three separate data sets.
Where is the data hosted?
In France, with OVH, backed up with Scaleway. No transfer outside the European Union. The AI models used can be selected, including from European solutions.