Overview
A Municipal Energy Plan (MEP), also known as a Community Energy Plan is a comprehensive long-term municipal or community plan designed to align energy, environment and land use planning to identify opportunities to:
- Improve energy efficiency
- Reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
- Foster green and renewable energy solutions, and
- Support economic development
Ten good reasons to undertake a Municipal Energy Plan (MEP)
- Create an understanding of where and how energy is used in the community.
- Provide a local energy strategy for a more sustainable future.
- Identify opportunities to conserve, improve energy efficiency and reduce Green House Gas (GHG) emissions.
- Reduce energy costs and invest these savings into other municipal priorities.
- Create economic development opportunities.
- Create an opportunity to support and integrate planning from various policy areas including growth and regional planning.
- Engage key stakeholders.
- Educate the community about energy use and potential conservation actions they can take.
- Create a baseline of energy use and GHG emissions to be measured against in the future.
- Foster innovation and leadership in energy planning and renewable energy development.
How Can a MEP Help Your Community?
- Increases resiliency in changing times.
- Improves the health of the community.
- Helps manage and create economic development opportunities.
Strategic Energy Management Process
Our professionals have the experience and expertise that is necessary to facilitate greater clarity through a full suite of energy advisory and consulting services. Our approach, method and diligence are second to none.
- Identifying and elevating energy cost and volumes as a strategic business issue (energy per unit cost)
- Identifying and implementing the right projects to drive beneficial results
- Implementing a vertically integrated management approach to drive results
- Linking disconnected components of complex energy management both internally and externally
- Developing corporate skills and capabilities of the individuals in the organization
Benefits
Strategic energy management combined with operational discipline will lead your organization to benefit from:
- Cost reduction
- Reduced energy consumption
- Energy volume reduction
- Risk mitigation, physical and financial
- Potential carbon reduction
- Potential waste reduction
- Community resiliency
