Energy Intelligence Services
Expert knowledge you and your customers can trust.
Energy Intelligence Services can provide you with robust evidence, whether you are planning a carbon reduction strategy, developing new energy saving products, or communicating with and educating your customers or employees. Our Energy Intelligence Service has four core areas:
Verification
Qualification of environmental claims
Now, more than ever, it is essential that environmental claims in your advertising and marketing communications are substantiated by reliable evidence. Today’s connected consumers – and the Advertising Standards Agency - react negatively to anything they perceive as ‘greenwash’.
We can provide robust energy-saving messaging and help you to develop customer-facing advertisements and marketing campaigns. We also provide impartial validation of environmental claims, supporting compliance with the CAP code.
Data analysis and research
The Energy Saving Trust is widely recognised for its expertise in the fields of domestic energy efficiency, sustainable transport, microgeneration and water efficiency; we also have access to a wide range of unique data sets and models. The combination lets us provide solutions and answers to your questions.
Modelling and analysis
To help support and underpin our insight and analysis the Energy Saving Trust has a number of unique, specialist tools which can help. These tools can feed valuable independent insight into reports and research.
- Housing Energy Model – developed with DECC economists to provide a powerful assessment of how different technologies can contribute to energy and carbon reduction from the housing stock in England, Wales and Scotland.
- Economic Impacts Tool – calculates the affect energy efficiency installations have upon employment and the economy.
- Willingness to Pay Model – models the degree in which consumers are willing to install certain energy efficiency measures.
- Stock Refurbishment Calculator – can recommend the most cost-effective means of achieving specific carbon targets across a user-defined housing stock; can calculate the costs, carbon dioxide and fuel bill savings of achieving certain SAP ratings in all buildings.
- Water Energy Model – calculates the carbon dioxide, energy and fuel bill savings for different water efficiency retrofits and behavioural change.
Developing interactive consumer engagement solutions
We design methodologies with supporting data to create interactive online carbon and energy tools. These help to inform consumers and guide them to take appropriate energy-saving actions. You can license any of these existing tools; here are examples of some on our own website for you to try:
- Solar energy calculator
- Water energy calculator
- Cashback calculator
- Home energy generation selector
- Home energy check
Digital mapping and analysis
Research or data that has any geographic elements can be analysed and presented as digital maps or as an interactive digital map; this makes complicated data instantly accessible and is a powerful tool to communicate research. Mapping can be a valuable addition to any report or modelling service already being undertaken by us.
Policy analysis
Home energy use is a big political issue, and no-one working in this area can afford to ignore the key role of the UK government in promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy. There are two big drivers for government action on home energy: firstly, reducing the 25% of UK carbon emissions which come from homes and, secondly, protecting poorer households as energy bills rise.
There’s a near constant stream of new government incentives, regulations and campaigns around home energy. Meanwhile, England, Wales and Scotland have increasingly different policy agendas. Keeping track of this complex policy landscape (and spotting the opportunities) can be tricky.
With seventeen years’ experience as the government's main partner in reducing home energy use, the Energy Saving Trust is ideally placed to help you understand the UK’s policy landscape for energy efficiency and renewable energy measures in homes. We’ve provided policy analysis for customers inclunding environmental NGOs, international policy bodies and trade associations, as well as government itself.
We combine our data and analysis tools with our expertise in policy, developed through years of close interaction with government, to give us a unique understanding of the decision-making process within DECC, CLG, BIS, DfT, the Scottish Government and the Welsh Government.
Market insight
The Energy Saving Trust has accumulated a wealth of market insight on energy efficiency over the years. Using in house expertise, market segmentation and support evidence we can provide robust knowledge into the attitudes and behaviours in energy efficiency, climate change and microgeneration.
Contact us
Contact us now about using our expertise to help you: email us at EnergyIntelligence@est.org.uk
Water Energy Calculator
A simple and flexible customer engagement tool, designed to suit any UK water company and the main domestic water use inputs, and regularly updated. Use it online or offline to quantify your customers' water and water-related energy use and savings, and carbon emissions.
