What best describes your business requirements?
- We want to save money on energy.
Cut our electricity and gas bills. - We need to reduce GHG emissions.
Shrink our carbon footprint. - We're a municipality, and we need to meet energy-reduction targets.
Partner with us on energy-efficiency program management. - We're a trade association, and we need to create opportunities for our members.
Develop energy-efficiency offerings our members can use.
Take the fastest path to lower GHG emissions
Cut electricity and gas bills with energy efficiency
Energy efficiency is often the first step companies take along a carbon-reduction path – and for good reason. Using less energy offers an immediate, quantifiable return on investment because it translates into lower utility bills. And energy efficiency is widely regarded as the least expensive, most reliable way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
According to the Pew Center, residential and commercial buildings account for nearly two-thirds of total U.S. electricity consumption and 30 percent of GHG emissions. That's why most energy-efficiency programs focus on making improvements to buildings.
For industrial and commercial properties, activity centers around:
- energy management systems
- lighting
- cooling and heating systems
- water management systems.
For residences, common improvements include:
- better attic insulation
- tighter shells
- smarter heating and cooling systems
- duct sealing.
For both businesses and homes, ENERGY STAR appliances, office equipment and lighting also reduce consumption and costs.
What energy savings are you missing out on?
Let FirstCarbon audit your office buildings, factories, residences and other facilities to find the most cost-effective opportunities for improvement that can also produce the greatest energy savings.
Get an energy-efficiency consultation.
Use energy efficiency to shrink your carbon footprint
Calculating your carbon footprint is one thing. Doing something about it is another. Implement practical energy-efficiency projects that can dramatically reduce your GHG emissions, without the high costs associated with alternative energy sources. Then document the GHG-lowering effects of the improvements.
Learn more about FirstCarbon's carbon-footprint practice.
Increase the effectiveness of municipality-run energy-efficiency programs
Across the United States, municipalities and utilities are caught in a delicate balancing act: Even as they grapple with cuts to their own operating budgets, they're expected to expand the reach and effectiveness of their residential and commercial energy-efficiency programs.
FirstCarbon energy-efficiency consultants have deep experience running energy-efficiency programs for municipalities and public utilities, but that's not all that sets up apart.
We specialize in business process outsourcing, and have a 5,000-strong team of outsourced sustainability professionals to do the time-consuming and expensive day-to-day work of collecting energy-efficiency data from thousands of homes and businesses.
FirstCarbon's all-hands-on-deck approach not only reduces your program's operating costs, but it also can increase the integrity and accuracy of your program-reporting data.
Talk to an energy-efficiency expert about municipality program requirements.
Develop energy-efficiency opportunities for trade-association members
FirstCarbon also works with trade associations in the energy efficiency, building and construction, and public utility industries. Depending on your members' needs, we can:
- develop and market energy-efficiency offerings to your members that help them realize cost savings, reduce their carbon footprints and meet regulatory requirements.
- train your members to market themselves as energy-efficiency professionals and take advantage of new business opportunities, while increasing revenue to the association for educational and management use.
Talk to an energy-efficiency expert about your trade association's needs.