Energy Saving Advice
It makes sound business sense to use
less energy. Did you know that low cost energy saving actions can reduce your
energy bills by up to 10%? For most businesses a 20% cut in consumption
represents the equivalent of a 5% increase in sales! To help get you started,
please find below some hints and tips that we've compiled with the help of The
Energy Saving Company.
Beyond shopping around, there are professional energy brokers
and business energy consultancies who can offer bespoke
utilities solutions and strategies for the management of all of
your commercial electricity, water and gas requirements. They
will evaluate your existing business energy usage, contract
renewals and savings by way of rebates. They also work with you
to find energy solutions that meet your immediate and future
commercial energy requirements.
Monitoring and Targeting
These techniques allow your business to relate energy
consumption data with business operations so you can better
understand how energy is being used. This can be applied to any
organisation in any industrial, private or public sector. Energy
management activities allow you to:
Detect energy wastage, leading to
cost and energy savings.
Identify avenues for further
investigation and saving potential.
Improve staff awareness, budget
setting and benchmark forecasts.
Carbon Footprinting
Calculating your carbon footprint can be an effective tool
for continued energy and environmental management; helping to
identify, prioritise and focus on areas for improvement.
Organisations calculate their carbon footprint for a number of
reasons:
Corporate social responsibility
and marketing purposes.
Providing evidence to customers,
businesses or investors of their CO2, carbon and other
greenhouse gas reductions.
Provide audit information to work
out levels of emission they need to offset in order to
become carbon neutral.
You can calculate your organisation's Carbon
Footprint on the
Carbon Trust website.
Staff Training
Personnel are essential to the operation of any business and
play a key role in an organisation's energy reduction goals. By
working with staff and implementing ethical practices you can:
Encourage staff to be more
pro-active and take action.
Improve teamwork and morale.
Increase environmental awareness.
Reduce business costs.
Energy 'walk arounds'
In order to achieve continued environmental sustainability in
your organisation, conduct regular housekeeping walk arounds. By
recording or acting on maintenance issues you can identify
further opportunities for energy saving. Conduct a series of
walk arounds at various times of the day. This will provide an
accurate picture of when energy might be being wasted.
Prove Your Credentials
Open up new markets and make a powerful statement about your
organisation's environmental credentials with the ISO 14001
environmental management standard. Not only does the
standard help you demonstrate conformity with legal
requirements, it can also help cut energy consumption and waste
management costs.
> Read more about ISO 14001 certification
The content for this article was supplied by The Energy Saving
Company, who provide support, advice and consultation to
organisations who want to reduce costs, save energy and help the
environment.
For more information on other ways to save visit
www.theenergysavingcompany.com or
call Mark Shearer on 0845 37 22 226.
Beyond shopping around, there are professional energy brokers
and business energy consultancies who can offer bespoke
utilities solutions and strategies for the management of all of
your commercial electricity, water and gas requirements. They
will evaluate your existing business energy usage, contract
renewals and savings by way of rebates. They also work with you
to find energy solutions that meet your immediate and future
commercial energy requirements.
Monitoring and Targeting
These techniques allow your business to relate energy
consumption data with business operations so you can better
understand how energy is being used. This can be applied to any
organisation in any industrial, private or public sector. Energy
management activities allow you to:
Detect energy wastage, leading to
cost and energy savings.
Identify avenues for further
investigation and saving potential.
Improve staff awareness, budget
setting and benchmark forecasts.
Carbon Footprinting
Calculating your carbon footprint can be an effective tool
for continued energy and environmental management; helping to
identify, prioritise and focus on areas for improvement.
Organisations calculate their carbon footprint for a number of
reasons:
Corporate social responsibility
and marketing purposes.
Providing evidence to customers,
businesses or investors of their CO2, carbon and other
greenhouse gas reductions.
Provide audit information to work
out levels of emission they need to offset in order to
become carbon neutral.
You can calculate your organisation's Carbon
Footprint on the
Carbon Trust website.
Staff Training
Personnel are essential to the operation of any business and
play a key role in an organisation's energy reduction goals. By
working with staff and implementing ethical practices you can:
Encourage staff to be more
pro-active and take action.
Improve teamwork and morale.
Increase environmental awareness.
Energy 'walk arounds'
In order to achieve continued environmental sustainability in
your organisation, conduct regular housekeeping walk arounds. By
recording or acting on maintenance issues you can identify
further opportunities for energy saving. Conduct a series of
walk arounds at various times of the day. This will provide an
accurate picture of when energy might be being wasted.
Prove Your Credentials
Open up new markets and make a powerful statement about your
organisation's environmental credentials with the ISO 14001
environmental management standard. Not only does the
standard help you demonstrate conformity with legal
requirements, it can also help cut energy consumption and waste
management costs.
