Saturday, January 8, 2011

The Business of Energy Efficiency:

Carbon Trust energy efficiency paper: The Business of Energy Efficiency a paper from Carbon Trust Services


Analysis by Carbon Trust Advisory Services has confirmed that energy efficiency is a good financial opportunity for most companies. Our tracking of efficiency implementation by businesses we work with indicates that costs of at least £1.6bn could be saved by the UK's large businesses. And the investment required to seize
these savings has very attractive payoffs: on average an internal rate of return (IRR) of 48% and payback within three years is on offer.

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However, despite these attractive returns, our data suggests that most companies are yet to fully exploit the cost-saving potential of basic energy efficiency measures,
and on average CFOs estimate that the returns on energy efficiency are less than half of the actual returns available. {continued}


The Business of Energy Efficiency: -


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