boosting resource efficiency at a regional level the enworks business support programme in englands...
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Boosting resource efficiency at a regional level
The ENWORKS business support programme in England’s Northwest
Introducing ENWORKS
• Established in 2001; 10th anniversary in 2011
• Innovative ENWORKS partnership model in England’s Northwest
• Award-winning environmental business support
• Decoupling economic growth from environmental degradation, with focus on resource efficiency
• Helped over 10,000 businesses with converting environmental pressures into competitive advantages
• Embedded in Northwest regional policy – Regional Economic Strategy, Climate Change Action Partnership, Sustainable Consumption & Production (SCP)
Using ERDF
• Economic project delivering results through environmental improvements
• ERDF Co-financed activity (SMEs) matched with NWDA SP grant
• NWDA SP grant activity alongside (Non SMEs and ERDF ineligible costs)
• Current programme value £9.3m - October 2009 to June 2013
• Co-financed activity £6.99m (£3.49m ERDF & £3.49m SP)
• NWDA only activity £2.3m (all SP)
• Running two projects concurrently:
• enables cost recovery for delivery organisations
• removes barriers to business engagement
• increases cost effectiveness
• Key considerations:
• naming delivery partners in bid
• managing cash flow
• compliance and administration
Challenges we face
• Addressing market failure in business resource efficiency
• Awareness doesn’t always lead to action
- 82% of businesses believe resource efficiency is important - BUT only 23% plan to take action in 12 months- Majority are one-off, low-impact interventions
• Common misconceptions – irrelevant / costly / new equipment / time-consuming / energy only / threat not opportunity
Overcoming the challenges
• Helping businesses with annual financial and environmental savings of:
• £122 million (€145m) in business costs
• 681,000 tonnes of CO2e
• 4.7 million m3 of water
• 3 million tonnes of materials
• 388,000 tonnes of waste diverted from landfill
• More than 7,370 regional jobs created and safeguarded
• £210 million (€250m) sales contracts secured and retained
Sustained impact
Saving typeAnnual savings -
pipelineAnnual savings
- achievedAchieved -
accrued to date
Business cost savings £ 93.3 million £ 29.4 million £ 83.8 million
€ 110.9 million € 34.9 million € 99.7 million
CO2e savings / tonnes 590,290 123,320 406,520
Water savings / m3 4.1 million 1.6 million 4.3 million
Material savings / tonnes 645,420 2.4 million 16.6 million
Waste diverted from landfill / tonnes
293,420 100,230 209,470
ENWORKS average savings
Average cost savings - per business: £21,263 (€25,107) pa - per improvement opportunity: £7,776 (€9,182) pa
Average CO2e savings - per business supported: 48 tonnes pa - per improvement opportunity: 31 tonnes pa
Value for money
• Most cost-effective support of its kind in the UK - compared to other regional and aggregated national environmental support programmes
• From every £100 (€119) invested in ENWORKS we create annually recurring savings of:
£1,200 (€1,426) in business costs8 tonnes of CO2e55 m3 of water30 tonnes of materials7 tonnes of waste diverted from landfill
£800 (€951) of sales contracts retained; £136 (€162) sales won
• Breaking the mould – 65% of cost savings achieved at no capital cost
Key success factors
• Mix of public funding sources – no exclusions / no postcode lottery for businesses
• Partnership of organisations – locally embedded & trusted by beneficiaries and other stakeholders
• Breadth of services – no barriers, we address energy, water, materials and waste, covering eco-design, process efficiency, sustainable procurement, legal compliance, climate change adaptation…. risk and reward
• Targeted and tailored support – linked to the potential to make savings, hands-on on-site advice and off-site services, focus on cost effectiveness and impact
• ENWORKS Online Resource Efficiency Toolkit – data is turned into information, it both catalyses action in business and the sharing of best practice across the project
ENWORKS Online Resource Efficiency Toolkit
• Unique web-based software, launched in 2004
• Log, prioritise, manage and report on resource efficiency actions
• Clear audit trail, traceable to each improvement opportunity and linked to official UK Government CO2e conversion factors (Defra)
• Adopted by other English Regional Development Agencies and Welsh Assembly Government
8,881 registered businesses, across the UK Tracking 30,589 individual improvement opportunities Recording total business cost savings of £342.7 million (€407.4m) Tracking total CO2e savings of 829,738 tonnes
Regional support
Location of businesses supported by ENWORKS in England’s Northwest:
Regional impact
Distribution of cost savings ENWORKS is helping businesses with, across the Northwest:
Distribution of CO2e savings ENWORKS is helping businesses with, across the Northwest:
Find out more
Contact us on: +44 (0)161 236 6348Email: [email protected]: www.enworks.com
For further information and video case studies: www.enworks.com/about-uswww.enworks.com/case-studies
ENWORKS In a Box: www.enworksinabox.com
ENWORKS Online Resource Efficiency Toolkit: www.efficiencytoolkit.net
ENWORKS Green Intelligence: www.greenintelligence.org.uk