Although efficiency has always been relatively defined by every kinds of enterprise. For instance, there would be companies which qualify productivity as a measure for asset efficiency. Although there have been plenty of reviews on asset and appliance energy consumption, there had been little on energy efficiency per se.
While companies are getting busy plotting their action plan, they are also giving attention to the fact that energy efficiency is of utmost importance. Measured against the pervasive threat of climate change, society dictates that business interests are inferior.
Our society presses on having each business take accountability for its own emissions and justification of such. This is an emerging threat to the viability of organizations and will now require them to adopt enterprise carbon and energy management systems as they not only begin to understand their actual positions but get ready to answer to society and legislators.
A common organization operates through the interaction of its assets. Each asset is responsible for the consumption of energy and the consequent emission of greenhouse gases. Emissions which are related to energy consumption are one of the largest contributors to climate change and other environmental degradation which should be stopped if needed.
While we are not yet at a position where the preceding statement can be viewed as black and white, we are certainly heading in that direction. For an organization to exist, let alone prosper in the future it must justify its possession of each asset and be sure that the asset is performing to ultimate efficiency. Enterprise carbon and energy management systems enable such tracking and provide a clear correlation between energy use and emissions spent.
We are very likely to see legislation. which requires consent for using energy and carbon emissions, enclosed within market forces. In this highly competitive and market-based economy, involved parties need to have openness and encourage transparency in conducting business to be satisfactorily compliant. Again, in this world a healthy balance sheet owes a lot to the performance of individual and sometimes lowly asset groups and thus the significance of asset performance tracking may not be understated.
There is a clear link between asset energy efficiency and carbon emissions and as carbon becomes a protected, trackable and tradable commodity, organizations must enable the link.
Enterprise carbon and energy management systems focus on energy efficiency and performance. Software providers such as Verisae have already amassed experience by providing such an approach to a number of retail organizations worldwide. Forward-thinking companies know and understand that although legislation would not be targeting enterprises at the moment yet, they also understand the importance of adamantly acquiring the most effective information possible.
While political debate and agendas can often slow the advance of legislation, societal opinion appears to be consolidating and organizations that are slow to take the initiative and adopt a clear path toward sustainability may indeed be very shortsighted.
