What is an Energy Services Company (ESCO)?
An Energy Services Company (ESCO) is a business set up to provide energy services to end-users, like the business or organization you're a part of. Energy Solutions Oxfordshire is one such service, offering you free support and comprehensive Workplace Energy Efficiency Assessments.
Common energy efficiency measures to reduce energy usage
In this webinar Michael Esvelt, Operations Director at Oxford Brookes’ Environmental Information Exchange, explains common measures for reducing energy use and improving energy efficiency in buildings, including: lighting changes, dealing with business appliances or machinery, employee awareness, renewables installation, and more. We were also joined by Gavin Hodgson who is responsible for reducing energy consumption…
Understanding the energy usage of your organisation
A crucial step in the process of making energy efficiency improvements to a building is understanding your existing energy performance and use in order to identify improvements. Oxford Brookes’ Environmental Information Exchange team (one of our three project partners) are experts at undertaking energy assessments and audits, and in this webinar we were joined by…
The importance of energy efficiency for businesses – and an introduction to Energy Solutions Oxfordshire
In the first webinar of our autumn 2020 series, we were joined by Steve Fawkes and Richard Dorey. Dr Steve Fawkes, Founder of EnergyPro and author of the Only Eleven Percent blog, gave an overview of why businesses should be thinking about energy efficiency. This included some of the key barriers commonly found by businesses…