9am – 10.30am, Friday 17 May
Thame Barns Centre Church Rd, Thame, OX9 3AJ
Energy and energy price rises have been much in the news. The government’s Energy Bills Discount Scheme, which was protecting business with a price cap from the worst of these rise, recently ended on 31 March2024. The environmental impact of our fossil fuel energy use is also being felt closer to home, with more severe storms, flooding and summer heat extremes due to climate change.
If you know of a business or any organisation that regularly uses the same building, that may want to reduce the energy they use, please encourage them to come t
o our Business Energy Breakfast. The workshop will cover eliminating wasted energy, how to improve energy efficiency and which low carbon technologies are appropriate for small to medium sized businesses. There will be light touch solutions for those with little time or money and more impactful suggestions for businesses wanting a strategic planned approach to energy. Everyone will go away with practical steps that they can take to manage their energy better.
This project is funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund with South Oxfordshire District Council as the lead authority.
At the end of the workshop there will be an opportunity to businesses to apply for up to £1,000 of funding to part-cover the cost of a building energy assessment for your business, which will include a site visit and report.
The workshop will be delivered by two experts from Energy Solutions Oxfordshire (ESOx).
Helen Watts is a qualified engineer and energy assessor for the Environmental Information Exchange at Oxford Brookes University. Her career includes being an Environmental Champion in the automotive industry, putting up a wind turbine in a remote Soviet collective farm with no electricity, helping a local primary school reduce its energy use and installing solar panels and a heat pump in her own home.
Alison Grunewald has worked in sustainability for 23 years. As Business Relationships Manager at Low Carbon Hub, she led the £4.2M OxFutures project, which helped grow Oxfordshire’s low carbon economy. The project delivered building energy assessments and energy efficiency advice to 182 local businesses and resulted in average 19% energy savings and £2,500 financial savings per business. With BEIS funding, she set up Energy Solutions Oxfordshire in collaboration with Oxford Brookes EiE in 2020-21. This service has already resulted in £1.8M of investment in energy efficiency and renewable technologies. She is a qualified chartered surveyor.
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