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The Carbon Trust (CT) was set up in 2001 by the UK government as an independent ‘company’.  The aim of the Carbon Trust  is to drive the UK towards a low carbon economy as warp speed. The challenge for the Carbon Trust is to engage businesses in energy saving activity, but in achieving this their [...]

One of the great challenges with energy efficiency is maintaining your savings. If you insulate your home or office this type of saving is secured as long as you leave the walls alone, but most energy saving activities requires human involvement/engagement so when you have the team on side you need to maintain this behaviour. [...]

The majority of UK employees are willing to save energy to help their employer in the current economic climate, but don’t know what to do. UK businesses appear to be failing to galvanise their employees, according to the YouGov survey of over 4300 individuals. Over half of those questioned (55%) said that their employer had [...]

Your energy profile is your consumption pattern based on half hourly readings. In many businesses this resembles to top hat, with the highest consumption from late morning to mid afternoon. By understanding what your profile is you can quickly assess areas to focus on saving. For example this top hat profile below looks pretty boring [...]

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