WPM provide advisory services to help organisations understand, comply and even benefit from applicable legislation through-out their office estate across the European Union.
Once carbon hotspots have been identified and projects prioritised we provide supporting evaluation return on investment (ROI) services.
Our consultants would expect to help you clarify your obligations under green mandates that relate to your organisation, be they national or covering an EU geography. This may involve educating key users in the community through workshops with reference studies to other customers experiences, and agreeing focus areas for conservation measures.
Evaluating the impact of various technologies is important in terms of payback, annual savings, reduced CO2 payments to government schemes, prioritising initiatives, reporting success internally and publicly. We provide a service capability that allows detailed evaluation of current usage and wastage, advice around the application of policy sets against various technologies, scenario planning and reporting. Following a low impact evaluation period of 2 weeks or so, we are usually able to accurately predict savings that can be achieved. Depending on laptop to desktop to screen ratios and usage patterns, we can reference customers that have saved as little as 22% annual energy bill savings and some as much as 74%.
A number of carbon emissions trading schemes will start operating across the European Union in 2010. Many large public and private sector organisations will be involved in carbon reduction commitments at some level.
In the UK, the Carbon Reduction Commitment (UK CRC) is a new mandatory emissions trading scheme that aims to improve energy efficiency and reduce the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted. This is vital to achieving overall targets of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 by at least 80% compared to the 1990 baseline.
Organisations that meet the qualification criteria, which are based on how much electricity, gas and other fuels they consumed in 2008, will be obliged to participate in CRC. Participant organisations will have to monitor their emissions and purchase allowances, sold by Government, for each tonne of CO2 they emit.
Reporting will be required prior to or after April 2010.
The more CO2 an organisation emits (electricity, gas, and any other fuel types such as coal, LPG, diesel, etc.), the more allowances it has to purchase. So there is a direct incentive for these organisations to reduce their emissions before they provide baseline reporting against which they will have to commence allowance trading.
An organisation consisting of 70,000 employees may expect to pay the government about £3m per annum in CRC allowances, so implementing an initiative that reduces energy costs by 1-2% might result in £5-10m in reduced bills over a 5 year period and lower levels of allowances that have to be purchased each year.