Environmental Sustainability
Our Energy ChallengeNorth America is the largest consumer of energy. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, the people of the United States, which represent less than five percent of the world's population, consume about one quarter of the world's energy resources. In total, industrialized nations, which represent sixteen percent of the world's population, consume eighty percent of the earth's natural resources. Americans consume six times the global average consumption of energy per capita. To ensure that these energy resources continue to be available, businesses and individuals need to work together to sustain current energy needs without compromising the energy future of generations to come.
The choices businesses and individuals make about how they use energy - turning machines off when not in use and choosing to use energy more efficiently - will have an increasing impact on the quality of the environment and people's daily lives. Energy conservation and energy efficiency measures both help drive environmental sustainability.
Doing Your Part
Today, businesses are more focused than ever on incorporating environmentally friendly practices into their business models. But, for most companies, sustainability programs come with large price tags and require significant operational changes that can cause major disruptions to day-to-day business operations. CPower's energy management programs, however, can help to ease companies' transitions to sustainable business models, and will pay companies dividends for their participation in programs that reduce their energy consumption and enhance the efficiency of their energy use. In other words, by participating in a CPower energy management program, companies are doing their part to help conserve energy and create a more sustainable environment, all while earning market payments for their efforts.
Partnering with CPower
The employees at CPower are experts and thought leaders in energy management and consistently represent energy user interests in various forums and working group meetings designed to influence energy strategies and policies to ensure the sustainability of the world's energy resources. Every American pays a societal benefit charge in their energy utility bills, which helps to create a pool of funding for the development, promotion and implementation of energy reduction programs, including demand response, energy efficiency and peak load management. These efforts improve the ROI on energy projects, promote energy efficient businesses, reduce facility operating costs and most importantly, benefit society.
Learn more about CPower Services and how companies can do their part to promote environmental sustainability.