to reach a consensus and ensure that its standards are widely adhered to the iso offers public access to drafts of standards and uses voting and appeals systems all iso standards are voluntary agreements meaning that compliance depends on broad agreement for instance the iso energy management standard establishes a framework for industrial plants commercial facilities and entire organizations to manage energy more efficiently these types of standards help define implement and monitor energyefficiency policies at macro and micro levels they also bring innovative energyefficiency technologies to the market faster and they are objective metrics for regulations and policy incentives to encourage greater use of innovative technologies