The standard is expected to offer a range of benefits, such as providing a logical and consistent methodology for identifying and implementing EE improvements across facilities, offering guidance on benchmarking, measuring, documenting and reporting energy intensity improvements and their projected impact on reductions in GHG emissions, and assisting facilities in evaluating and prioritizing the implementation of new energy-efficient technologies. For example, the EU Energy End-Use Efficiency and Energy Services Directive sets a 9 per cent energy saving target by 2016, and the United Kingdom’s Energy Efficiency Action Plan 2007 expects a saving of 18 per cent (DEFRA, 2007). The payment for the services delivered is based, either wholly or in part, on the achievement of energy efficiency improvements and on the meeting of the other agreed performance criteria (an EU Directive definition).