Depending on the sector of your organisation, energy costs can account for up to 30% of costs to your business. Energy efficiency investments therefore can provide a significant cost saving opportunity directly improving your company’s bottom line.
Depending on the sector of your organisation, energy costs can account for up to 30% of costs to your business. Energy efficiency investments therefore can provide a significant cost saving opportunity directly improving your company's bottom line.
In addition to the cost savings associated with energy efficiency investments, there are other benefits for your organisation. For example, energy consumption is directly linked with carbon emissions, therefore taking steps to reduce your energy consumption will lower your business’ impact on the environment and can improve your business’ corporate image and competitiveness.
Reducing energy use makes perfect business sense; it saves money, enhances corporate reputation, and helps everyone in the fight against climate change.
The Carbon Trust provides simple, effective advice to help businesses take action to reduce carbon emissions. The easiest way to do this is to use energy more efficiently.
This guide addresses some of the key challenges faced by companies when commissioning an energy efficiency project, provides an overview of the key stages of commissioning a project and discusses how to avoid some of the most common pitfalls.
Contents
- Introduction
- How to identify energy saving opportunities
- Going out to tender
- Installing and commissioning your project
- Quality assurance
- Realising your energy savings
- Next steps
