Commit to smart energy use
EP100 brings together a growing group of energy-smart companies committed to using energy more productively, to lower greenhouse gas emissions and accelerate a clean economy.
The EP100 initiative is led by The Climate Group in partnership with the Alliance to Save Energy, in association with the World Green Building Council.
By setting ambitious targets and integrating energy efficiency into business strategies, leading energy-smart companies are driving cleantech innovation while delivering on emissions reduction goals.
The Climate Group estimates that if 100 companies double their energy productivity by 2030, over 170 million metric tons of emissions could be avoided, equivalent to taking 37 million cars off the road for a year.
What are the benefits?
From financial services and retail to automobile manufacturing and heavy industry, EP100 members are generating green growth, improving competitiveness, and banking substantial cost savings. EP100 companies are also driving wider economic benefits by helping to reduce primary energy demand and advance energy efficient technologies.
Energy productivity is about maximizing each unit of energy for greater economic output. The business case for companies builds upon 5 key advantages.
- Reduce costs: energy efficiency can not only help limit energy expenses, but it also contributes to reducing the cost of related decarbonization efforts;
- Drive innovation: enhancing energy productivity goes hand in hand with innovation and development of new technologies that can have a dramatic impact on the way we work;
- Harness economic benefits: EP100 companies are also driving wider economic benefits
- Deliver emissions reduction targets by reducing primary energy demand and advancing energy efficient technologies;
- Create value: increasing energy productivity represents jobs and economic value creation
EP100 shares the compelling business case for increasing energy efficiency, encourages knowledge-sharing and peer-learning through webinars and events, and showcases member leadership through speaking slots at key events, digital media and media outreach.
What is expected of companies that make this commitment?
There are three commitment pathways companies can choose from in order to become an EP100 member:
- Doubling energy productivity – A company doubles the economic output from every unit of energy it consumes globally within 25 years, with a baseline year of 2005 at the earliest; enabling a company to grow more sustainably and demonstrating the highest level of climate leadership.
- Cutting out energy waste – A company with commercial buildings or industrial manufacturing space implements a smart energy management system (EnMS) globally within 10 years or sooner, and commitments to an energy productivity target.
- Owning and operating energy-smart buildings – A company commits to owning, occupying or developing buildings that operate at net zero carbon by 2030, with energy efficiency as a core component. The Net Zero Carbon Buildings commitment is led by the World Green Building Council as part of EP100.
