Does your business have a decarbonisation strategy?

A decarbonisation strategy combines essential aspects of your organisation’s net zero planning. It helps to create a high-level framework that guides your business’s approach to reducing carbon emissions.

The importance of a decarbonisation strategy

A decarbonisation strategy is crucial for organisations aiming to address climate change, align with regulatory requirements, and build resilience for a low-carbon future.

Why is a decarbonisation strategy essential for your business?

Environmental impact

It directly addresses the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, helping limit global warming and protect ecosystems.

Regulatory compliance

With increasing regulations around carbon emissions, having a decarbonisation strategy helps your organisation to stay ahead of evolving compliance standards and avoid potential fines.

Reputation and competitiveness

As customers, investors, and partners increasingly prioritise sustainability, organisations with a clear decarbonisation strategy can strengthen their reputation and differentiate themselves in the marketplace.

Financial savings

Reducing energy consumption and optimising resources through decarbonisation can lead to significant cost savings over time, particularly as carbon pricing becomes more widespread.

Innovation and efficiency

Developing a decarbonisation strategy encourages innovation and operational efficiency, often leading to new technologies, improved processes, and better use of resources.

Long-term resilience

By proactively reducing emissions, your organisation can build resilience to climate risks, ensuring you’re better prepared for future regulatory, environmental, and market shifts.

How can an energy consultant help?

The first step of any strategy is to audit where you are as a business on your decarbonisation journey. An energy audit can be a good start to this process. This is where the team at Consultiv can help.

As an energy consultancy, we play a vital role in helping organisations like yours to design and implement effective decarbonisation strategies. We offer expertise in energy management, sustainability practices, and carbon reduction technologies.
Our services can help to:

Assess your carbon footprint

• We can obtain a true understanding of your organisation’s energy use, including Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 emissions.
• Then, through analysing this data, we can identify emission hotspots and prioritise areas with the most significant carbon impact.

Develop a roadmap for emission reduction

• We can assist with setting realistic targets for your emissions reduction, aligned with your company objectives and global frameworks like the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi).
• We can help you to design a phased approach, focusing on both long and short-term goals.
• In cases where full decarbonisation is not immediately possible, we can advise on offsetting options and help establish programs for sourcing high-quality carbon offsets as an interim solution.

Assist with compliance and financial incentives and funding

• As decarbonisation often involves meeting regulatory standards, we can keep you updated on relevant laws and policies, ensuring that your organisation remains compliant.
• We can assist you with in reporting requirements to external stakeholders.
• Our knowledgeable team are up to date on financial incentives such as government grants, tax credits and carbon offset programmes. These could help to reduce the cost of your business’s decarbonisation strategy.

Provide advisories on implementing low-carbon technologies and solutions

• Depending on the energy audit findings, we may recommend specific technologies such as energy-efficient lighting systems or carbon capture and storage (CSS) technologies.
• It may be that on-site renewable installations are recommended, along with energy storage solutions to optimise usage and reduce dependence on the grid.

A brief overview of our energy auditing process

1. Our team will provide an initial free consultation to understand your goals.
2. The scope and audit type are agreed depending on your company goals, budget and required depth of analysis.
3. We obtain a full understanding of your business and a detailed view of your energy consumption history.
4. Your consultant will create a detailed energy analysis, identifying energy usage by time of day, season, or operational phase. They can then identify peak demand periods and areas with high energy consumption.
5. We will then develop a set of recommendations to discuss with you to establish a customised action plan, focusing on energy and cost-saving measures.
6. As a customer, you can then benefit from on-going support and monitoring by utilising our market-leading software solutions – enabling you to monitor your energy, carbon and costs going forward.

Conclusion

In summary, our energy consultancy services act as a strategic partner for your organisation when aiming to reduce your carbon footprint, guiding you from planning through implementation to monitoring and reporting.

If you would like to arrange a free consultation with one of our energy specialists to discuss how we can assist you with your business energy, please get in touch.