Energy management survey: Businesses ‘more committed than ever’
Source: Edie.net
Employee engagement, behaviour change and technology upgrades are the key areas businesses are focusing on to become more energy efficient, but funding remains the biggest barrier to initiating energy-saving programmes.
Those are some of the key findings of the third annual edie report – Energy Management: Procurement, Planning and Purchasing Priorities 2015/16 – which surveyed 381 people responsible for energy management within their organisation.
Seventy-six percent of respondents said that energy-efficient lighting systems are the top area they are focusing on this year. Sixty-five percent are pushing employee engagement initiatives, while 60% will be focusing on building/energy management systems – a significant increase from 47% in last year’s survey.
When asked to rate how committed their organisation is to achieving energy management goals on a scale of one to five, almost two thirds (65%) of respondents rated their organisations as a four or a five. The proportion that thought their organisation was ‘very committed’ increased from 35% in 2014/15 to 39% in this year’s survey.
