UK businesses and households are to be offered free energy audits following today’s launch of a new green consultancy designed to provide customers with a one-stop-shop for energy and carbon saving projects.
OneWorldEnergy has signed partnerships with a raft of green product and services companies, including green energy providers Good Energy and Ecotricity, building energy efficiency specialist Mark Group, offsetting firm the CarbonNeutral Company, and ethicalsuperstore.com. The start-up said that these partnerships would allow the company to access all the products and services needed to cut their building's carbon emissions from one provider.
"Unlike organisations like the Carbon Trust and the Energy Savings Trust, we are offering a full end-to-end service," said managing director Rudi Schogger. "We can undertake the free audit, make necessary recommendations, then sell and install the necessary products."
Schogger said the business model was built selling green products on the back of energy audits, but insisted there would be no "hard sell" for the domestic and small and medium sized business customers the company is targeting.
Sue Welland, Founder and Director of The CarbonNeutral Company, welcomed the launch of the new firm, claiming it would make it easier for customers to access green products. "Consumer research shows that it is important to make low carbon living accessible and easy to implement for people," she said.
The company is also planning to launch a chain of green energy showrooms later this year, Schogger said, which it claims will allow customers to access one-on-one advice and view products close up.
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