Environmental guidance for your business in Northern Ireland & Scotland
You can take specific additional measures to improve energy efficiency, depending on your business type.
Manufacturing businesses might look at:
Carbon Trust: Energy Energy efficiency guides
Warehousing businesses could investigate:
Office-based businesses should ensure that:
Transport and distribution businesses should make sure that they:
Energy saving Trust: Transport
Energy Saving Trust Scotland: Transport
Retail businesses can:
Hotels and other hospitality businesses can:
For certain industries that use energy intensively, the government has negotiated climate change agreements with trade bodies. This can mean up to an 80 per cent discount from the climate change levy in return for meeting legally binding energy-efficiency targets.
In Scotland, the Energy Saving Trust has developed the Green Network for Businesses. This tool allows you to search by postcode for green businesses in your area. All these businesses have installed energy saving or energy generating technologies .
Once you identify the business that has installed the green technology you are interested in, contact them to organise a visit.
EST: Green Network for Business
Energy Saving Trust: Business services
Resorce Effcicient Scotland: 101 Easy ways to cut your energy bill
Resource Efficient Scotland: Save energy
Energy Saving Trust Scotland: Business services
How to monitor your energy use
Create an energy efficient work culture
Energy efficiency tips for different types of business
Financing loans and tax incentives for energy efficient equipment
Groundwater in Northern Ireland, DAERA have produced a leaflet to raise awareness about this untapped resource
EU Exit, EU Exit useful information
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