March 2025 Newsletter

Welcome to the latest Net Zero, Carbon Reduction, and Energy Management news updates

The Benefits of TM44 Air Conditioning Inspections

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Energy efficiency has some of the greatest potential to make the biggest impact on organisations’ emissions, energy use, and costs in the shortest amount of time. One often overlooked area is the performance of air conditioning systems. TM44 air conditioning inspections provide a valuable opportunity to enhance sustainability.

Discover how much you could save by getting a TM44 inspection

Energy Audits: The deep dive into your business needs

In today’s world, where sustainability and cost efficiency are paramount, organisations are constantly seeking ways to optimise their operations. Completing an energy audit is often an overlooked but highly effective strategy, enabling real insights into an organisation’s energy and carbon usage and ways this can be improved upon.

In this blog, our Energy Consultant, Alex Au Yeung, will explore the vital role commercial energy audits can play in understanding an organisation’s data so they can make changes to how they manage their energy and carbon emissions.

Supporting your employees’ transition to electric vehicles

As organisations across the UK strive to reduce their carbon footprint and embrace sustainable practices, electric vehicles (EVs) have emerged as a viable and eco-friendly transportation solution. At TEAM Energy, we believe that encouraging employees to switch to EVs can significantly contribute to a company’s sustainability goals.

Find out how you can empower your employees to make sustainable choices

Why sustainability reporting is a necessity for all organisations

Corporate sustainability reporting involves the disclosure of a company’s environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance and is rapidly becoming a crucial practice for organisations of all sizes. It not only enhances transparency but also helps stakeholders, including investors, customers, and employees, understand how a company is managing its sustainability impacts.

Effective sustainability reporting can lead to improved reputation, increased investor confidence, and better risk management. Far from being a trend or a “nice to have”, sustainability reporting is now a necessity that must be prioritised. In this blog, Tom Anderton, our Head of Customer Success, explains why.

Is your corporate strategy aligned with energy efficiency?

For many organisations, sustainability is no longer just a buzzword; it’s a critical component of their future success. With so much to consider when planning an organisation’s carbon reduction, integrating energy efficiency targets into their corporate strategy can guide businesses in successfully achieving their goals.

Senior Energy Consultant and EnCO Practitioner, Sam Arje, explores how organisations can align their energy efficiency with their corporate vision to help achieve their future goals.

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Energy Efficiency Training

Committing to becoming a green business requires a lot of strategy and planning. However, it is easy to get lost in the planning and data management of sustainability and overlook that your biggest advocates could be your workforce.

Energy efficiency training is a vital part of building an organisation’s staff engagement strategy, helping to implement new ideas and approaches to reduce energy use and consumption across an entire business. Whether you would like your employees to understand the essentials of energy efficiency or you are looking to engage in an initiative that will support your energy and carbon strategy in the long run, our training courses can help.

Discover our bespoke energy efficiency training options

ESOS Phase 4

Did you know that you can start you ESOS Phase 4 work now?

As well as ensuring compliance, the scheme can help your organisation save a money on energy bills by implementing energy efficiency initiates. The UK Government has introduced some changes into the Phase 4 of the scheme, watch our video to learn more.

Start your ESOS Phase 4 now

Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) Guide

SECR aims to put green credentials into the public domain and help organisations achieve the benefits of environmental reporting.

Our guide will help you understand the requirements, process, and benefits of SECR compliance.

Download our free guide to learn more about SECR

Customer Support

Did you know that we have a page dedicated to supporting our customers with understanding and using our Sigma Energy Management Software?

With a wide selection of training videos exploring Sigma’s full range of features guided by our Customer Success Trainer, Kim Blake, you can understand the full benefits of our energy management software.

Explore our software training videos

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Discover how we can help you comply with ESOS

Understanding the Latest Trends in Wholesale Energy Prices

Staying informed about the latest trends in wholesale electricity and gas prices is crucial for organisations looking to optimise their energy procurement and energy risk management.

Several factors influence the UK wholesale electricity price including the intermittent nature of renewable energy, fuel costs, geopolitical events, weather conditions and supply and demand.

Wind turbine installations hit record levels in 2024, report reveals

According to a report from BloombergNEF, global wind turbine installations set a second year record in 2024, with China leading the installation. Wind turbines installed last year have reached a total of 121.6 gigawatts (GW) wind power capacity, which is double that of 2019.

GB Energy needs full £8.3bn of funding or it will disappoint, government told

Researchers at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) found that the publicly owned energy company, GB Energy – set up by the current Government to drive renewable energy and cut household bills – will need to be fully funded if it hopes to build enough clean energy projects to meet 5% of the country’s electricity needs by the 2030s.

State of the Global Climate 2024

The clear signs of human-induced climate change reached new heights in 2024, which was likely the first calendar year to be more than 1.5°C above the pre-industrial era, with a global mean near-surface temperature of 1.55 ± 0.13 °C above the 1850-1900 average.

This is the warmest year in the 175-year observational record. The State of the Global Climate 2024 report underlined the massive economic and social upheavals from extreme weather and the long-term impacts of record ocean heat and sea-level rise.

SBTi unveils proposals to update Corporate Net-Zero Standard

The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has published an initial draft of its revised Corporate Net-Zero Standard for consultation, confirming that it wants to tweak a requirement for companies to aim for a 90% reduction in Scope 3 emissions.

UK reaches 75,000 public EV charging points

This is according to new data from the UK Government’s Department for Transport (DfT).

In May of last year, the DfT confirmed that the UK had installed its 60,000th public charging point, meaning that approximately 15,000 charging points have been installed in nearly nine months. The rollout is backed by £200m in government funding, alongside private sector investment. The expansion aims to improve charging access for EV owners, particularly those without home charging options.

Spring is “fastest-warming” season in the UK

According to analysis by Climate Central, Spring is the fastest warming season in the UK, largely due to climate change. With the average spring temperature increasing by 1.8C since 1970. Research shows key events that herald the start of spring are happening on average nine days earlier than a quarter of a century ago.

1 in 5 people say climate change has had a big impact on their daily lives

From December 2024 to February 2025, the effects of human-induced climate change were evident in nearly all regions of the world, new analysis from Climate Central has found.

The report, which examined how climate change influenced temperatures around the world over the past three months, found that about one in five people globally—or 1.8 billion people—experienced temperatures that were strongly influenced by climate change every single day.

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