The document summarizes a workshop on improving business resource efficiency and going green. It discusses measuring current resource usage, identifying areas for savings, potential sources of funding to implement efficiency projects, and marketing green improvements. The workshop covers topics like understanding resources, benefits of efficiency, initial steps businesses can take, and where to find additional information and support.

1. Go Green Bristol
There’s money to be saved by going green….
Improving Your Resource Efficiency Bristol
Presenter: James Hammond

2. Introduction
• Who am I?
• Who are we?
• Who is funding this workshop?
• Introductions
• Housekeeping

3. Aims and Objectives
• Understand about resource efficiency
• How to start greening your business
• Some initial steps to take
• How to benefit from these actions
• Possible sources of funding available
• Where to go for further information

4. Schedule of workshop
Part 1 - Resource Efficiency (or going green!)
- Workbook exercise
Part 2 - How to go green
- Workbook exercise
- Break (Phew!)
Part 3 - Green marketing, funding and what to do now
- Filling in forms and questions
- Coffee and networking

5. Resource efficiency (or going green!)
• Part 1 covers:
1) What are resources?
2) Why it is important to be efficient?
3) What are the benefits of being efficient?
4) What do YOU use and why?

6. Resource efficiency (or going green!)
• Main resources we use are:

7. Resource efficiency (or going green!)

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• All of these produce:

11. Resource efficiency (or going green!)
• The average business uses 20% of these
resources inefficiently
• Simply, saving 20% on your costs = larger
profits!
• So, how does this effect your profits….

12. Resource efficiency (or going green!)
If your turnover = £100,000
And 10% of this is profit = £10,000
Your costs currently amount to 25% = £25,000
So, if you reduce your costs by 20% = £5,000 saved
Now your profit is £15,000, which is equivalent to a
50% increase in turnover!

13. Resource efficiency (or going green!)
• As a bonus, you can help save the planet as
well
Cost = Consumption = Carbon
14p = 1 kWh = 0.5041kg CO2e
Use less, spend less, produce less carbon

14. Resource efficiency (or going green!)
• What is CO2e?
• A greenhouse gas (GHG) is one that absorbs and emits IR
radiation in the atmosphere
• Carbon dioxide is not the only greenhouse gas, other include:
– Ozone
– Water vapour
– Methane
• So CO2e is the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide that
would give the same radiative forcing as an amount of
another GHG

15. Resource efficiency (or going green!)
Some examples:
• Marks and Spencer Plan A
– Started in 2007
– Generated £185M in benefits
– Reduced energy use by 28%
– Reduced waste

16. Resource efficiency (or going green!)
• Local example
– Manufacturer of wood packaging and pallets
– 24hr operation, large, high ceiling space, no natural
light
– Annual lighting costs of over £17,000
– Total cost, including installation was £15,500
– Annual saving of £10,000 in electricity, plus lower
maintenance costs
– Plus annual carbon saving of 65 tonnes!

18. Resource efficiency (or going green!)
Other benefits include:
1) Open new opportunities in the market
2) More productive workplace
3) Tap into a growing “green” marketplace
4) Feel good about yourself and your business

19. Resource efficiency (or going green!)
Workbook exercise and discussion:
Your Resource Use

20. How to go green – Measuring and Saving
Part 2 covers:
1) Why to start measuring?
2) How to monitor
3) Where to focus your attention?
4) Where can you start saving?
5) What can your business do now?

21. How to go green – Measuring and Saving
• Why measure?
“You can’t manage what you don’t measure”
• Can provide some instant savings, for example

22. How to go green – Measuring and Saving
• How to measure your usage:
– Use your energy monitor
– Examine bills
– Monitor stock levels
– Examine waste streams
– Monitor equipment performance

23. How to go green – Measuring and Saving
• Use your energy monitor

24. How to go green – Measuring and Saving
• Examine your bills

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26. How to go green – Measuring and Saving
Examining trends in usage:
Weekly Consumption

27. How to go green – Measuring and Saving
Examining trends in usage:
Daily Consumption

28. How to go green – Measuring and Saving
Examining trends in usage:
Hourly Consumption

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• Single shift office

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Thermal Energy Use

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• Payback period
– This is the length of time that the capital cost of a
project is recouped by the saving in expenditure
by that project
– E.g. total cost £10,000
– Annual saving = £2,000
– Payback = 10,000 / 2,000 = 5 years
– This doesn’t account for other savings, such as
increased productivity or decreased maintenance

32. How to go green – Measuring and Saving
• How to decide what to invest

33. How to go green – Measuring and Saving
Capital Cost
£1,500.06p £1,309.85p

34. How to go green – Measuring and Saving
Efficiency rating

35. How to go green – Measuring and Saving
Running Cost
Alpha Worcester
Gas unit price £/kWh 0.04 0.04
Gas annual consumption (kWh)* 300,000 300,000
3.5% increase 310,500 0
Annual running cost £12,420 £12,000
£1,309.85 £1,500.06
*Average figure for medium sized office
from Carbon Trust

36. How to go green – Measuring and Saving
Whole Life Cost
Setup costs
• capital equipment cost
• delivery
• installation
• building alterations
• staff training
End of life costs
• decommissioning
• disposal

37. How to go green – Measuring and Saving
Why we look at lighting

38. How to go green – Measuring and Saving
• LED Bulbs
• For 8 lamps, running 8 hours per day
Bulb kWh per year Cost (at 14p per CO2 (kg)
unit)
Halogen 1168 £163.52 631
LED 164 £22.89 88

39. How to go green – Measuring and Saving
Workbook exercise:
Writing your own green action plan

40. Green marketing, funding and what to do now
Part 3 covers:
1) Where can I find funding?
2) Why tell people about your green improvements?
3) How to tell people
4) What do I do now?

41. Green marketing, funding and what to do now
• Sources of funding
• Capital
• The IYRE scheme
• Invest in renewables
• The Feed in Tariffs (FiTs)
• The Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI)

42. Green marketing, funding and what to do now
• The Improving Your Resource Efficiency (IYRE) Scheme
• Open to SMEs in the South West
• Provides a one to one advice service aimed at reducing
your business carbon output
• Possibility of receiving a grant towards green
improvements

43. Green marketing, funding and what to do now
Why tell people?
1. Important to your customers, and opens new
opportunities
2. Increases staff productivity
3. Growing sector of the market (EGS sector grew 4.7%
between 2009/10 – 2010/11, non EGS was 0.7% within
same period)
4. CSR

44. Green marketing, funding and what to do now
How to tell people
- Internally
- Environmental policy or EMS
- Integrate into your company’s:
- emails
- website
- Make it relevant to your audience
- Press releases

45. Green marketing, funding and what to do now
What can I do now:
• Join a local cluster group
• Engage your colleagues
• Be realistic – no one can do it all straight away
• Do it now!

46. Forms!
• Now the exciting bit!

48. That’s it!
• Thanks for coming and good luck with your
saving!