Carbon Survey: Types of Survey and Advice

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Each survey is conducted by an independent accredited consultant who produces a practical action plan tailored to your organisation's needs.

Surveys are usually only available for sites and organisations with an energy bill greater than £50,000 per year. Telephone support is available for smaller organisations.

 
A range of different survey types and advice is available, including:
  • Energy assessment
  • Detailed site survey
  • Multiple-site survey
  • Implementation support
  • CHP advice
  • Building design advice

 

Energy assessment

This survey can be tailored by a Carbon Trust account manager to meet an organisation’s needs through delivery of specific modules, and often includes an estimation of their basic carbon footprint.

For an organisation with minimal energy efficiency experience, measures can address all significant energy uses, or for those with some energy efficiency experience and evidence of implemented energy efficiency measures, effort can focus on a narrow range of energy uses, with more in-depth analysis.

Recommendations will be made once an organisation’s business constraints have been taken in to consideration, and the resulting action plan tailored to reflect their specific business drivers.

Energy management assessment tools are also available to the consultant to help evaluate an organisation’s strengths and weaknesses, compare them against others and introduce sustainable energy improvement practices.

Detailed survey

This survey is a detailed investigation on the feasibility and potential savings from a specific energy saving opportunity, such as replacement of equipment with significant energy consumption – but likely to entail significant capital costs for the organisation. Note that this survey is only part funded by the Carbon Trust.

Multiple-site survey

For organisations with more than five sites and a total energy bill of greater than £150,000/year the Carbon Trust will carry out surveys at a sample of sites in order to obtain an overview of energy saving opportunities that exist across the organisation.

This survey can be tailored by an account manager to meet an organisation’s individual needs through delivery of specific modules, including an estimation of their carbon footprint.

An energy management review performed as part of the survey will identify the strengths and weaknesses of energy management practices and help your organisation deliver savings across your portfolio of operations. As part of the multiple site assessment senior management will be briefed on the findings.

Implementation support

Support to develop large, capex projects to the point where they can be implemented. Through discussion with your account manager up to 6 modular elements can be used as appropriate. Individual modules focus on:
  • Feasibility study
  • Business case
  • Performance specification
  • Supplier identification
  • Procurement documentation
  • Technical bid assessment

CHP advice

For organisations who are specifically interested in the use of Combined Heat & Power (CHP). Advice ranges from initial feasibility studies, design to project implementation advice for both new developments and refurbishments.

Design advice

Design advice offers professional, independent and objective advice on energy efficient and environmentally sound building design. Clients are offered free initial design consultancy on a building project - further consultancy, with partial funding, may be available. See more details on design advice.

If you would like to speak to our Customer Centre regarding any of these services please call us on 0800 085 2005.

 
 

Carbon Surveys

 
 
 
 
Introduction
Why have a Survey?
The Survey Process
Types of Survey and Advice
Apply for a Survey
 
 

Case Studies

 
 
 
 
Ryobi Ltd
Working with the Carbon Trust, Ryobi has reduced its energy bills by approximately 26 per cent, thus saving more than £250,000 per year and reducing its annual carbon footprint by 1,150 tonnes.