The Carbon Trust Green Business Fund is a brand new energy efficiency support service for small and medium-sized companies in England, Wales and Scotland. It provides direct funded support through energy assessments, training workshops, equipment procurement support and a capital contribution towards your energy saving equipment purchase.

The workshop will help small companies across England learn how to identify and implement opportunities to reduce energy costs within their business and make the most of the Fund.

Understanding and reducing energy bills through behavioural and low cost measures

• Introduction to energy management
• How to understand your energy usage bills
• How to implement approaches to energy management and behaviour change to achieve real saving

Focus on major areas of energy consumption in SMEs (heating, lighting, equipment, insulation)

• Technical overview of the key areas of consumption
• Outline of key energy reduction retrofit technologies

Access to funding and free one-to-one site audits

• A brief overview of further support and advice available, including a capital contribution towards the cost of projects that comply with the requirements of the fund

This workshop is hosted by Swale Borough Council.

*The content of this workshop has been certified by the CPD Certification Service as conforming to continuing professional development principles.