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Holistic Energy Strategy

Build an energy strategy to reduce your carbon footprint and meet your scope 1 & 2 targets

Energy strategies for businesses

A holistic energy strategy is a unique service by Ennovus Solutions that develops a strategy for businesses to better manage their energy demand. Through a technically driven solution, businesses can tackle their energy spend whilst also striving towards their carbon reduction and net zero targets. 

Investing in one renewable or sustainable energy technology can have a knock on effect to other technologies or energy demands. A holistic energy strategy looks at how a collection of technologies can benefit a business, rather than analysing systems in isolation.

With net zero and scope 1 & 2 targets at the forefront for many businesses, building a strategy is a key step.

For example, heat decarbonisation is one of the biggest challenges that we face. Businesses wanting to reduce their scope 1 emissions might investment in a heat pump to electrify their heating demand. This will significantly reduce the gas demand but it will increase the electricity demand. A holistic energy strategy will help to map out this increase in electricity demand and present ideas on how this can be managed through suitably sized renewable generation or storage assets. 

Systems within an energy strategy

Renewable Generation

Renewable generation, like solar and wind, is one of the best ways to reduce your grid electricity demand. Can you generate more energy than you need to help electrify your fleet or heating demand.

Energy Efficiency

Every business will have areas to improve their energy efficiency, whether that is through systems or operational changes. How will these efficiency improvements change your energy demand.

Heat Decarbonisation

Electrifying a heat demand is one of the best carbon reduction measures a business can make. However, how will moving towards electricity supplied heat impact your energy demand.

Starting with an energy audit

The first step in a holistic energy strategy is to understand what a business’s building, energy demand, processes, and systems looks like. To do this we will conduct an energy audit through our in-house auditing team. On site, our expert team of auditors will assess all energy consumers and systems, in-line with British Standards. Areas that we will assess include, but are not limited to, lighting, heating and cooling systems, controls, metering, small appliances, industrial manufacturing, and generation opportunities. For more information on our dedicated energy auditing service, please click here.

Following on from the audit output, our auditing and engineering function will work together to identify, assess, and map out key opportunities. The audit forms the basis for a holistic energy strategy, as without truly understanding the energy systems, consumers, and highest emitters, an opportunity could easily be overlooked. 

A technical assessment

A holistic energy strategy will initially look at the high level technical and commercial viability of driving a site towards their carbon reduction targets through the implementation of sustainable energy technologies. The strategy will map out the impacts of each measure, and understand how the measures work alongside one another. This will provide a business with a thorough understanding of what is possible at their site, and provide them with a technical plan matched with an indicative cashflow. 

After the technical assessment has been concluded, Ennovus Solutions can work with your business to build out a more detailed business case. We are also able to provide the full end-to-end service, by implementing the technologies at your site. This provides a seamless transition from audit to action, with Ennovus Solutions. 

Building a group wide net zero pathway

Many businesses will want to tackle and monitor energy and carbon reduction at both a site level and group level. A holistic energy strategy is a technical site level assessment, looking into very tangible engineering solutions. For those businesses wishing to build out a carbon reduction strategy for their full portfolio or group, look no further than Consultus Sustainability’s award winning Net Zero Pathway. Please click here to find out more.

The Net Zero Pathway enables businesses to baseline their energy demand and emissions, set targets, and build a group level strategy and action plan. The final output is a strategic Board Pack which considers real world insights and provides indicative costings required for a business to meet their sustainability goals.

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