Sustainable Energy

Energy efficiency is about doing more with less — tapping into your company’s full efficiency potential to cut down on how much energy it uses, not to mention how much it spends on its utility bill. Explore guidance by system or sector, plus resources on how to conduct energy assessments and audits to determine where your company’s largest energy expenditures are — and what you can do about them.

Making renewable energy part of your company’s energy mix can help you drastically reduce your carbon footprint and manage energy-related risks to your business. Explore resources on procuring green power, whether you’re purchasing or generating your own.

Are your energy efficiency and renewable energy initiatives coordinated and aligned to maximize cost-effective energy procurement decisions? Is your organization structured to quickly respond and finance sustainable energy opportunities as they arise? Are your sustainability goals and business goals in sync? If you’re not employing a comprehensive, strategic approach to energy management, chances are you’re missing opportunities to drastically reduce your company’s energy-related emissions. The organizational change resources highlighted here — like ISO 50001 — can help you shift from a piecemeal approach to your sustainable energy transition, to more strategic energy management that is truly part of your DNA.

Over the last decade, EDF Climate Corps has worked with over 400 companies to accelerate energy management solutions, both in their own operations and across their supply chains. No matter where you’re at on your energy journey, EDF Climate Corps fellows — specially trained, custom-matched graduate students — can bring in fresh ideas and a new perspective to your team. Explore resources developed by the program, including case studies of energy management projects implemented by past fellows.

Using best practices, standards and protocols for the evaluation, measurement, and verification (EM&V) and reporting of sustainable energy activities is critical to achieving results with greater certainty, understanding and communicating progress, and making future activities more effective. Find tools here that will help you align your measurement and reporting to best practices.

Your energy management plan may begin with your own operations, but tackling your full energy-related emissions can’t be achieved without up- and downstream supplier engagement. Learn how to expand your influence in a low-carbon economy and achieve ambitious emission reduction goals through supply chain strategies.

While voluntary corporate actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are important, only public policy can deliver the pace and scale of reductions needed to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. That’s why policy advocacy is an essential element of corporate sustainability leadership. Companies can make a difference by supporting policies that drive down greenhouse gas emissions, improve air quality, unleash innovation and accelerate the transition to a low-carbon energy system.

Companies investing in sustainable energy experience multiple benefits to their business. Explore case studies on companies that have achieved financial and non-financial gains on top of environmental ones to help you build the business case for stepping up your own company’s energy management strategy.