Raising awareness

To come up with solutions people have to thoroughly understand the problems and issues. The principle applies at a national, governmental level or within the sphere of your own organisation. MITIE’s experts are opinion leaders in this specialist area, taking an active part in lobbying and helping shape future policy while working locally with your own people to win hearts and minds on the low carbon approach.

As Government strives to reduce carbon emissions and safeguard energy security, they are generating a huge raft of regulatory change and placing a significant new burden on businesses. We have dedicated experts who fully understand this fast changing legislative landscape and can make sure you’re always aware of new developments in energy and carbon regulation, such as Feed-in Tariffs (FIT), Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) and the Green Deal. That way, you can take the action needed to manage your business, comply with new and upcoming laws and also take advantage of any available grants and incentives.

To achieve a shift in attitude in your own organisation, it’s important that everyone understands the nature of the energy and carbon issues your business is facing. For numerous clients we’ve managed bespoke energy awareness campaigns, and hosted open days, green days and energy awareness seminars. In others, we’ve put our MITIE CarbonMeter in the main reception, providing employees with a real-time information portal on the energy statistics for their building. And in social housing we produce home energy packs and train our resident liaison officers to help residents to understand how to use energy better.

Simply changing attitudes like this can influence individual behaviour, prompting people to turn off lights and unnecessary office equipment. Hearts and minds campaigns can alone produce energy savings of up to 10%.