1. Go Green Bristol
There’s money to be saved by going green….
Improving Your Resource Efficiency Bristol
Presenter: Nina Skubala
07500668659
Nina.Skubala@businesswest.co.uk
@GoGreenBristol

2. This morning you will…
• Go Green with Business West
• Break
• Receive an Energy Law update from
Gregg Latchams
• Enjoy a Networking Lunch kindly
provided by Gregg Latchams

3. Who is Business West?

4. How we help your business to Go Green…
• FREE service. Funded by the European Regional Development
Fund and Bristol City Council to encourage small and medium
enterprises to use resources more efficiently.
• Focus on WHERE your business can save £££
• Focus on HOW your business can save £££
• How Going Green can ENHANCE your business
• Help to find SOLUTIONS and FUNDING

5. Why should your business Go Green?

6. Most business waste 20% of
the resources that they use

7. What differencecan savings make to your bottom line?
If your turnover = £100,000
And 10% of this is profit = £10,000
Your costs currently amount to 25% = £25,000
So, if you reduce your costs by 20% = £5,000 saved
Now your profit is £15,000, which is equivalent to a
50% increase in turnover!

8. What benefits can your business expect?
• Innovation
• Employee engagement
• Community engagement
• New markets
• PR
• Material security
• Compliance

9. And how does saving £££ save the environment?
Cost = Consumption = Carbon
14p = 1 kWh = 0.5041kg CO2e
Use less, spend less, produce less carbon

10. WHEREyour business can save £££

11. Resource efficiency (or going green!)
• Main resources we use are:

12. Resource efficiency (or going green!)

13. Resource efficiency (or going green!)

15. Examine your bills

16. Examine consumption patterns

17. Examine you processes+ culture

18. Howyour business can save £££

19. Spend nothing…save LOTS
• Use a broker to make sure you are on a
competitive utility tariff – can save up to 30-
50%
• Switch off appliances rather than leaving
them on standby could save you around £30
a year.
• Walk/cycle over driving
• Electronic over print

20. Spend a little…save a LOT
• LED Bulbs
• For 8 lamps, running 8 hours per day
Bulb kWh per year Cost (at 14p per
unit)
CO2 (kg)
Halogen 1168 £163.52 631
LED 164 £22.89 88

21. Capital spend must stack up…
Payback period
– This is the length of time that the capital cost of a
project is recouped by the saving in expenditure by
that project
– E.g. total cost £10,000
– Annual saving = £2,000
– Payback = 10,000 / 2,000 = 5 years
– This doesn’t account for other savings, such as
increased productivity or decreased maintenance
And include other considerations e.g. capital
equipment cost; delivery; installation; building
alterations; staff training; decommissioning; disposal

22. Solutions and Funding

23. How to go green – Measuring and Saving
Workbook exercise:
Writing your own green action plan
• Consider the resources your business uses
and how these are used
• List the biggest uses of resource in your
business
• Using this list, use the workbook to decide
on a few simple actions that you can
implement right away to start saving

24. What £££is out there?
• Enhanced Capital Allowance - Tax relief for equipment
purchased from the Energy Technology list https://etl.decc.gov.uk/
• Local Sustainable Transport Fund - Grants for bike
racks & shared parking and loan electric bikes and bus passes with
sally.jones@bristol.gov.uk
• Regional Growth Fund – Employers taking on more staff can
apply for grants valued from £10k-£1m towards training, premises and
capital equipment mary.lavin@businesswest.co.uk
• Source West – Funding available to install electric vehicle charging
points www.sourcewest.info/

25. Next steps
• Put your Action Plan into action
• Use the Go Green Bristol Guide to keep finding
solutions and savings for your business.
• Keep in touch with contacts made today
• Have a Business West advisor visit your premises to provide
an Environmental Review
• Join an environmental networking group such as Green
Capital or Low Carbon South West

26. Nina Skubala
Lead Environmental Adviser
07500668659
Nina.Skubala@businesswest.co.uk
@GoGreenBristol