Transcript Improving Your Resource Efficiency

Introducing ENWORKS
By Todd Holden, Programme Director
Objectives of the Partnership
Since 2001…….
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To raise quality standards and achieve consistency
To plug the gaps where support has been unavailable
To improve communications and marketing
To work towards a common vision
To avoid duplication
To learn from good practice and evaluate success
ENWORKS Partnership
The Partnership Board includes representatives from:
Northwest Regional Development Agency
Environment Agency
Robinson Keane
North West Chambers of Commerce
North West Universities Association
United Utilities
Brother UK
Groundwork North West
Government Office North West
Envirolink Northwest
Cumbria Rural Enterprise Agency
Federation of Small Businesses
Institute of Directors
Helping Companies to Achieve
In the 2007-2010 programme …..
Jobs created / safeguarded
156 / 494
Business assisted
3,600
Cost savings
£70m
Material savings
224,000 tonnes
Carbon dioxide savings
216,000 tonnes
Water savings
3.1 m m3
Sales increased / safeguarded
£30m / £65m
Achieved savings
Savings from opportunities with zero capital cost
6,000,000
Annual savings (£)
5,000,000
4,000,000
3,000,000
2,000,000
1,000,000
Behavioural Clean design
change
Premises
Process Specification
improvement
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procurement
Resource Reduction Methods
New ETS
Unknown
North West – CO2 Savings
New opportunity
• Name:
Embedding Resource Efficiency in Key Sectors
• Duration:
October 2009 – December 2012
• Value:
£9,993,000
• Key Metrics:
Jobs, Sales, People Trained
• Key Impacts:
Costs Savings (Energy, Water, Materials, Waste diverted from landfill)
• Scope:
Resource Efficiency
Environmental Risk
Sustainable Procurement
…Cluster specific activity
Improving Your Resource Efficiency
We deliver support in Corporate Responsibility and Resource Efficiency to
businesses of all sizes from all sectors.
• Information services
• Telephone helpline
• Seminars and training
• Legal compliance
• Networking
• Risk management
• Climate change mitigation / adaptation
• Audits and reviews
• Opportunity identification
• On-Site support
• Opportunity implementation
• Links to other support
• Online Resource Efficiency Toolkit
What we will achieve
Jobs created / safeguarded
240
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500
Business assisted
1,250
Cost savings
£60 million
Material savings
170,000 tonnes
Carbon dioxide savings
255,000 tonnes
Water savings
2,050,000 tonnes
Sales increased / safeguarded
£25m
/
£60m
The effects of other metrics on activity and impact
Target =
number of businesses advised
Activity = light touch, one off interventions
training events, basic site visit
no triage
Impact =
difficult to measure
likely to be minimal
The effects of other metrics on activity and impact
Target =
jobs and sales
Activity = ‘Corporate Responsibility’ support
environmental policy, legal compliance
Impact =
little or no efficiency savings
If Metrics = Saved
£, CO2, materials, water
• Eco design of products and packaging
• On site facilitation / change management
• On site technical advice
• Monitoring & measurement
• Research, options analysis
• Audit / review of practices
• Opportunity identification & quantification
If Metrics = Created
Jobs & Sales
• Sustainable procurement
• Business continuity / risk
• Legal compliance
• Environmental policies
• Customer demands
Market Failure – NW Business Survey
• Only 26% have heard the term resource efficiency
• 80% think resource efficiency is important to their business
• Just 33% have taken action to increase their resource efficiency
• ~30% turned off lights, changed bulbs, increased recycling
• ~75% anticipate no return on investment
• Only 20% plan future improvements in resource efficiency
• 71% have not looked for support
• Common perception is that new equipment & capital investment is
always necessary… Efficiency is under-rated
Data Analysis
Challenging perceptions:
• ~75% of NW businesses think that resource efficiency
improvements will deliver no return on investment
• Analysing the capital cost associated with improvement actions
Annual cost savings Achieved = £27m
• 58% (£13.4m) achieved with no capital cost
• 72% of opportunities (1844/2576)
Types of market failure
• Common property
• Public goods
• Externalities (positive and negative)
• Imperfect and asymmetric information
• Increasing returns
• Market power
…Complex issues often require complex solutions.
Have you ever..?
General
No action taken
population (100%) (67%)
Action taken
(33%)
Plan to take
action (20%)
• 26% heard of term
Resource Efficiency
• 82% think it’s a
good idea
• 54% haven’t
changed how they
use resources in the
recession
• 71% haven’t
sought advice
• 6% couldn’t find
what they wanted
• 51% believe no
barriers to RE
• Cost perception
• 85% saw a business
benefit
• 64 - 75% investment
hasn’t resulted in cost
reductions
• 37% have increased
recycling
• 33% plan to continue
with resource
efficiency
• Lack focus
• 23% / 46% say
resource efficiency is
part of their business
plan
• Lack focus
• Low investment
• Perception of low
return
• 33% couldn’t see
any benefit from
improving their
resource efficiency
• 14% plan to take
action
• Lack focus
Perceptions
• Not relevant
• Threat not opportunity
• Resource efficiency = utility management
• Need to invest in equipment to save energy
• Investment will not reduce costs
• Time consuming
Challenging perceptions on Efficiency
• £100 million annual savings identified
• £27 million of these are achieved
• 92% are achieved through a reduction in resource use
• 72% of opportunities achieved with no capital cost
• 58% of cost savings achieved with no capital cost
• Of those achieved with capital cost…
• 57% have payback period less than 1 year
• 75% have payback period less than 2 years