19 Aug 2010 03:08:00

Half price energy management for charities

Charities have a long established role on taking responsibility for the environment. As there are more than 190,000 registered charities in England and Wales, there is real potential for even the smallest green initiative adopted by some, or all, of these charities to have a positive environmental impact. sMeasure.com can support the charities who want to commit themselves to reduce their carbon footprint and want to reduce energy-related costs at very low cost to the charity.

sMeasure.com is a free to use energy monitoring website borne from the University of Oxford Environmental Change Institute that requires no equipment or kit. It can provide a host of valuable analysis by benchmarking the organisation’s energy consumption from adding weekly meter readings against typical use and degree-day data to provide valuable insight to the charitable organisation on possible wastage and leakage, for example, so corrective measures can be implemented.

Yassen Roussev from The Cyrenians uses SMEasure and says of the tool: ‘sMeasure has allowed The Cyrenians homeless charity to monitor the performance of its building stock and evaluate the effectiveness of energy efficiency projects. There has been a lack of specialised tools freely available to SME's to evaluate energy usage and correlate that with local degree-day data.’ Yassen continued, ‘The creation of sMeasure to fill exactly this gap is really good news for the Energy or Estate Manager on a shoestring.’

To qualify for the half price energy management, charities will need to supply their resgitration number.

Energy efficiency

Environment

Social responsibility

Other