Improve your Energy Efficiency
Climate change represents a serious threat to everyone’s future and improving energy efficiency is key in any effort to reduce carbon emissions.
Forced by legislation and corporate social responsibility more and more organisations are setting themselves carbon reduction targets. The need to cut costs in the current economic climate together with ever rising fuel prices puts further pressure on energy managers to reduce consumption.
TEAM helps organisations to considerably improve their energy efficiency. For more information see tab “How TEAM can help”.
Business Benefits
There are multiple benefits for organisations to improve energy efficiency.
The main benefits are:
Major cost savings– 5 to 20% of energy savings can be identified by monitoring and targeting energy consumption and improving efficiency through no-cost and low cost measures. Further savings may be achieved by projects requiring capital outlay.
Improved image- Energy-efficient businesses demonstrate their responsibility towards the environment and can improve their reputation among customers, suppliers and employees.
Achieving Carbon Reduction Targets – Improving efficiency is one of the main ways for organisations to reduce energy consumption and cut carbon emissions.
Other benefits include:
Reduced tax bills– Most businesses in the UK pay the climate change levy, an additional charge added to energy bills. The fewer units of energy used, the lower the tax paid.
Reduced payments under UK CRC – Organisations who need to comply with the UK CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme make further savings and improve cash flow as reduced energy consumption means less allowances need to be purchased.
Tax incentives– These are often available for businesses that buy and use energy-efficient technologies.
How TEAM can help
TEAM supports customers in improving energy efficiency in the following ways:
Obtaining high quality data
“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it!” TEAM has extensive experience in supporting organisations with software solutions and outsourced services to ensure that accurate utility consumption data is collected, whether this is from meters, electronic or paper bills.
Identifying waste
TEAM software provides a host of reports to identify poor energy performance in buildings or departments through benchmarking or league tables. Sophisticated monitoring and targeting tools including CUSUM and Regression Analysis further help identify waste, while automatic exception reports flag up any abnormalities in consumption patterns.
Prioritising projects
League tables in the TEAM software help identify worst performing buildings, pinpointing where efforts need to be directed. Our experienced Energy Consultants carry out surveys to identify opportunities for energy efficiency improvements in buildings. Sophisticated budgeting and forecasting tools in our software can support the decision making process of which projects to implement.
Sharing energy consumption data
TEAM’s Web Dashboard and Digital Signage solutions can help organisations share energy consumption data with those who can make a difference, including site managers, building occupants and visitors, for example through a web browser, dashboard displays in high traffic areas or mobile phone applications.
Implementing energy efficiency projects
TEAM’s Flexible energy management services support organisations with energy efficiency projects, from planning to implementation through to monitoring results.
