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Sustainable practices are profitable because they can reduce risk, make business more efficient and more attractive to consumers, and advance them technologically while reducing environmental and social impact
is vital to the profitability of any company. The reason for increased interest is clear. Sustainable practices are profitable because they can reduce risk, make business more efficient and more attractive to consumers, and advance them technologically while reducing environmental and social impact.
Expanding the impact – Policy directions Why then, do so many companies fail to put sufficient sustainable energy management policies in place?
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Here are some questions any company looking to manage their energy and sustainability needs to answer: How much energy does the business use? How can you improve your energy efficiency? What impact would saving energy have on your business from a financial perspective?
How do you source your materials? Are you using sustainable products and processes?
What is your impact on the local and global community?
Those businesses that are unable to answer all of these questions have really only scratched the surface of effective sustainable energy management.
Addressing these questions is the role of the Energy and
Sustainability Manager and the first step into producing a robust framework for making significant and continued strategic improvements.
The United Kingdom, as one example, is signed up to EU targets of 20% of energy from renewables and 10% of transport fuels from biofuels by 2020.
Response to these challenges can be seen in EU legislation with the 2007 EU energy policy regarded as a first step towards a low- energy economy by improving security of supply,
competitiveness and increasing sustainability. “Meeting the Energy Challenge - A White Paper on Energy” (2007) by the then Department of Trade and Industry (now the Department of Energy and Climate Change), reiterates the UK’s stance that its cornerstones are to save energy, develop cleaner energy supplies and secure reliable energy supplies at prices set in competitive markets which are regulated independently.
Sustainable effect
It is the role of the Energy and Sustainability Manager that could implement this strategically within an organisation, thus helping to create cost reductions as well as ensuring the organisation complies with the most up to date regulations.
Sustainable energy management is the process of monitoring, controlling, and conserving energy in a building or organisation.
Typically this involves: Metering energy consumption and collecting the data.
Finding opportunities to save energy, and estimating how much energy each opportunity could save.
Taking action to target the opportunities to save energy
The roles of the Energy and Sustainability Manager would therefore work to change the way organisations think and act. For example, adding energy efficiency and conservation into the formula of considerations for new construction and operations and maintenance. The Energy and Sustainability Manager could also advocate for the owners and operators of facilities to think more sustainably.
© 2011 Angel Business Communications. Permission required.
Vicky Kenrick
Marketing Assistant International Sustainability Recruitment Consultancy, Allen & York
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