What is an EnCO?
An EnCO is an organisation that is externally recognised as measurably reducing energy consumption by applying behaviour change techniques.
The EnCO initiative was launched in conjunction with the EI (Energy Institute) with the aim of registering and recognising organisations who apply behaviour change techniques in order to measurably reduce energy consumption. EnCO is a not-for-profit Charitable Community Benefits Society (CBBS).
Why is behaviour change needed?
There is hard commercial evidence to show that changing behaviours to embed and maintain a good energy culture can easily make savings equal to or in excess of traditional engineered improvements. These opportunities to change behaviour have the potential to deliver savings of between 10 and 25% of total energy consumption. See EnCO Case Studies on www.energyconsciousorganisations.com.
Behavioural change means saving energy by transforming practices to reduce or avoid consumption. This includes obvious measures such as turning off devices from lights to air conditioning, setting conditions at the right level or time, and identifying simple low-cost energy improvement projects. But good energy behaviour goes far beyond this: it is about senior management decision-making, standards, policies, plans and, importantly, optimising the technology used.
Why become an EnCO?
The benefits from becoming an EnCO are considerable:
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Energy waste and costs will be significantly reduced and savings will be sustained
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Provides a stimulus to continually improve energy performance
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Greenhouse Gas emissions will be substantially reduced
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Savings will be evidenced and measurable
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Employees will be engaged and motivated
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Demonstrates good practice to shareholders, regulators, clients/customers, stakeholders and employees
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Stresses to the business caused by rising energy prices will be reduced
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Any money saved can be turned to profit or used to invest elsewhere in the business
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There are social gains of reduced environmental impact
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EnCO recognition will help gain access to business opportunities and procurement frameworks
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Becoming part of the wider EnCO community will enable sharing of good practice
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The organisation’s ability to attract new talent will be improved
How to become an EnCO Registered Organisation
To become EnCO Registered, an organisation must implement a behaviour change programme, prove the savings, write a short case study and complete a registration process.
We have both EnCO Consultants and an EnCO Practitioner with extensive experience in delivering energy behaviour change programmes. We would be delighted to support your organisation to achieving EnCO Registered Organisation status.
For further details please contact me.
EnCO Training
EnCO runs a ‘live’ on-line training course consisting of four modules each two hours long. On successful completion, you become an EnCO Consultant which is the first step to becoming an EnCO Practitioner. See EnCO website for details of the next course, course content and cost.
As an alternative, there is an e-learning version of the EnCO course and details can be found on https://esa.learnupon.com/store/4246366-enco-certification-course.
Becoming an Energy Conscious Organisation (EnCO)
Background
In 2020, I founded EnCO with Jes Rutter and James Brittain, the leading UK practitioners on people solutions in energy reduction in large organisations. Our combined experience brought EnCO to what it is today. Between 2020 and 2025, Jes and I delivered 30 EnCO Training Courses to equip energy professionals from around the world to design and deliver effective people solutions.
See the EnCO website for details on training, case studies and tools and other useful sources of information: