GAIA are thrilled to have won the Rosenblatt Energy Advisory Firm of the Year Award for 2010.

The Rosenblatt New Energy Awards is a prestigious event in the renewable energy/efficiency sector and we were up against strong competition from companies such as KPMG and Liquid Capital Group.

Thank You to Our Customers

A huge Thank You to those customers who submitted their Case Studies on behalf of GAIA for the Rosenblatt New Energy Awards 2010. Winning Awards that are backed by Customer Case Studies are of the greatest value to GAIA and we thank you for your support.

GAIA March 2010

GAIA are thrilled to be chairing the Behaviour Change seminar at Sustainability Live (NEMEX) 20 April 2010.

http://www.sustainabilitylive.com/page.cfm/action=Seminars/SeminarID=1

Haydn

UK energy bills are set to rise by 20% over the next decade and there are reasonable doubts over the security of UK future power supplies, according to the energy regulator, Ofgem.


http://www.ofgem.gov.uk/Media/PressRel/Pages/PressRel.aspx

GAIA are thrilled to be shortlisted for the Advisor of the Year in the Rosenblatt New Energy Awards.

The Rosenblatt New Energy Awards is a prestigious event in the renewable energy/efficiency sector and were up against strong competition from companies such as KPMG.

See the shortlist here:
http://www.growthbusiness.co.uk/businessxl-events/rosenblatt-new-energy-awards-2010/shortlist/

At this time of year, many of us are returning to work with fresh optimism and enthusiasm to do better in the new year. The economy is improving but the year ahead trading will continue to be tough, so the need for strong focus on achieving your energy efficiency goals cannot be understated.

But what can you do if your success requires support of your colleagues?
How can you engage them to help you achieve your goals?

GAIA have written a short Blog to Help you on your way.
Click on the Blog Link above or paste this URL below into your browser.
http://www.gaiaactive.com/wordpress/?p=679

Happy New Year From GAIA

It has been so popular we are entending the offer:

GAIA provides FREE 'Virtual' Energy Saving Packs to businesses keen to save energy. The pack provides simple advice on how to set up an energy efficiency campaign.

Our E-mailable Pack provides our 'simple steps to save' with links to a range of Free Resources. To request yours email enquiry@gaiaactive.com.

GAIA provides Free 'Virtual' Energy Saving Packs to businesses keen to save energy. The pack provides simple advice on how to set up an energy efficiency campaign.

Our E-mailable Pack provides our 'simple steps to save' with links to a range of Free Resources. To request yours email enquiry@gaiaactive.com.

Get a FREE Booklet '44 Tips to Save Energy' to help you this week.
Input the url below into your browser to obtain the booklet.

http://www.gaiaactive.com/mail_signup.asp

Warwickshire County Council and the Warwickshire Climate Change Partnership are asking all businesses/organisations/schools in thier region take part in 'Switch it Off' (SIO) week to save on energy costs and reduce your carbon footprint.

The campaign, which is taking place across Warwickshire, Coventry and Worcestershire, is encouraging public bodies, businesses, communities, schools and residents to 'Switch Off' non essential appliances which are left on when they’re not needed.

With many local and regional initiatives designed to encourage greater energy efficiency the challenge for many organisations is to sustain the savings once the initiative ends.

Long term energy efficiencies offer significant financial savings with every £ saving adding to your bottom line year after year. So it pays not to lose the progress made.

With GAIA we can help you drive further saving and keep it that way with a live energy monitoring alert system. Call us today to see how we can help you save more on 02476 236446.

The new cap & trade programme is underway and companines shoud now be getting their data submission packs.

A summary of the Qualification Process can be found here. Paste this link below into your browser to read.

http://www.gaiaactive.com/wordpress/?p=572

For more help on what to do with the CRC call GAIA on 02476 236446.

Following on from the Isles of Scilly earlier this month it is now the turn of Leicestershire to take on the Big Switch Off.

The initiative, which lasts for one week, aims to reduce energy consumption by turning off lights and unused appliances.

GAIA is helping by closely monitoring our customers energy consumption during the week and helping them cut out waste. At then end of the week they can see how their building actually performed against the wider county.

If you are taking part and need some advice on how to save energy call GAIA on 02476 236446. We have a range of FREE resources that may help you.

Download out recent talk at the NEC Birmingham on Smart Metering and Energy Efficiency in Business for Free.

Just place this link into your browser to locate the presentation.

http://www.gaiaactive.com/wordpress/?p=549

How can you work out if you have a Half Hourly Meter?

This is one of our most common questions. Half Hourly Meters and Non Half Hourly can often be the same meter type and model and some Non Half Hourly Meters also have antenna (often non operational) so it is quite difficult to tell them apart.

Read our blog for more help: Just input the URL into your browser. Or click the GAIA Blog tab above.

http://www.gaiaactive.com/wordpress/?p=519

20,000 organisations and business have been contacted over the last few weeks in regard to their involvement in the UKs new internal emissions trading scheme called the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC).

The scheme, to be fully operational by 2013, has a rapid timeline for those business involved with the initial qualification packs being distributed during September 2009. If you have a half hourly meter on one of your premises you should have been contacted.

For those who qualify, the CRC brings significant opportunities for business keen to improve their bottom line. For those that don’t comply in this phase, they can profit from acting prior to inclusion getting a head start on their competitors.

To find out how the CRC could impact on your business call GAIA for some free advice on 024 7623 6446 or email us at enquiry@gaiaactive.com.

Download our recent talk on Long Lasting Energy Efficiency in Business presented to CIMA mambers in July.

Paste the link below into your browser.

http://www.gaiaactive.com/wordpress/?p=465

If you're looking to communicate regular energy saving tips to your staff why not follow us on Twitter. Most days we suggest an energy saving tip that you can use to communicate to your staff. Remember the key to energy saving is keeping your energy saving message alive.

To follow GAIA is completely free and takes seconds to obtain a Twitter log-in. Just click on the 'Follow us on Twitter' image on our home page.

GAIA

With 2009 proving to be a challenging year for businesses, cost management is now top of the agenda in many UK boardrooms. The higher energy costs largely absorbed until now are beginning to bite into company profits driving businesses to adopt energy efficiency measures with haste. This talk will cover the secrets to effective and long-lasting energy efficiency that can be adopted by any business or organisation.

Your speaker, Haydn Young is the founder of GAIA, an energy efficiency advisory company, that has developed a unique step-by-step approach to energy saving. The GAIA ‘3 Steps to Save’ programme has saved many companies thousands of pounds a year through staff education and simple energy management techniques.

Register to attend this Wednesday here:
http://www.cimaglobal.com/cps/rde/xchg/live/root.xsl/events_detail.htm?filename=events_32080.XML

Under the Train to Gain some businesses may now be eligible to claim funding for the Trial GAIA energy saving programmes.

Call us to see if you could be eligible on 02476 236446.

GAIA

Ever keen to promote the use of natural energy resources Chris at GAIA has set off on his one man mission to sail around Britain.
The journey is expected to take at least 3 months and Chris will twitter to the GAIA account when able updating on progress.

Local business owners from across Leicestershire have written a new booklet offering 80 ideas to survive the economic downturn. The booklet, called ‘80 Tips to Beat the Recession’ was the brainchild of a breakfast networking group – most of whom have had previous experience of trading during earlier slowdowns.

The advice from the Leicetsershire businesses covers ideas on everything from how to reduce costs on energy through to printing, as well as how to generate more business through marketing and on the internet. In total, 26 business owners who attend the networking group Working Breakfast have contributed ideas from their area of expertise.Download your free booklet today at www.workingbreakfast.com

GAIA

GAIA Users,

Gaia is pleased to launch our new improved and now downloadable Energy Pack to accompany the GAIA system.

All '3 Steps to Saving' have been updated with more tips and advice on achieving and sustaining long term energy savings.

Log into GAIA (www.gaiaactive.com) in the usual way to find the New Energy Pack.

Happy energy saving!

GAIA

GAIA are launching a new Energy Saving 'Starter Pack' for new businesses keen to cut energy consumption and reduce carbon emissions. The Starter pack will be provided for FREE to new customers and can be delivered electronically in pdf.

The pack will be available by May 15.

You can request a pack through our 'contact us' page.

GAIA

With Energy Efficiency top of many companies’ agendas GAIA is now working hard to help customers to cut those bills.

Over the last few weeks GAIA has started to support a wide range of businesses and organisations from, Metalwork Manufacturers, POS Manufacturers, and Offices to Secondary Schools and District Councils.

Call GAIA today to start you energy efficiency activity on 02476 236446.

Under the Train to Gain some businesses may now be eligible to claim funding for the Trial GAIA energy saving programmes.

Call us to see if you could be eligible on 02476 236446.

If you're keen for more regular energy saving tips and 'tweets' all can now follow GAIA each day on our new twitter page at http://twitter.com/SaveEnergyTips.

Just sign up to your free Twitter account and receive our daily titbit/s of energy efficiency advice.

Happy energy saving
GAIA

GAIA is proud to have been nominated for the Energy Manager of the Year Award sponsored be ESTA (Environmental Systems Trade Association).

It's an honour to be been nominated for such an award and we're grateful for our many customers who sent testimonials to support our nomination.

Thank You

GAIA

The March Edition of our energy saving newsletter was sent out last week to registered readers.

This month we covered:
1) Global recession driving energy efficiency in UK businesses.
2) Energy Saving Tip - Focusing on minimum demand.
3) Free Healthcheck option.

To subscribe to future Newsletters visit www.gaiaactive.com/mail_signup.asp

Or email enquiry@gaiaactive.com to ask for the last edition.
(You can unsubcribe at any time)

GAIA

The global recession is driving corporate adoption of energy efficiency measures in a bid to cut costs, according to a survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit.

Energy efficiency will be a high or moderate priority over the next two years for nearly three-quarters (73%) of respondents. “This report shows that, although businesses will necessarily switch focus to survival mode, many firms are starting to embrace some of the short-term cost benefits of energy efficiency,” says Robin Bew of the Economist Intelligence Unit.

GAIA's experience supports the EICs research. More and more businesses each week are turning to proactive energy efficiency and energy monitoring systems to achive their cost saving goals. Over the last 2 months alone several of GAIA's new customers have experienced savings of 20%-30% on consumption with normal production/capacity rates. It's amazing how much GAIA can help you save.

Interested to learn how your business can save energy? Call GAIA on 024 7623 6446 .

GAIA is pleased to see Energy Efficiency back as a top priority in UK businesses keen to offset the impact of the economic slowdown. With huge savings on offer, for many up to 20% of consumption, there is no better time to get your activity off the ground.

Its amazing how little effort needs to be done to save energy, if you know what to do and where to look. GAIA can show you how and train you to maximise savings with the fastest return.

Take a trial to see how we can help you save - when you see how GAIA works you will be impressed!

The February Edition of our energy saving newsletter was sent out last week to registered readers.

This month we covered:
1) 4 Simple Tips to Save Money in your Business today.
2) New FREE Energy Healthcheck service
3) Customer Question Answered - Maximum Demand

To subscribe to future Newsletters visit www.gaiaactive.com/mail_signup.asp

Or email enquiry@gaiaactive.com to ask for the last edition.

GAIA

We all know that we should turn off the lights or turn down the heating but what are the best top tips to save energy in the Workplace?

Energy saving in the workplace should focus on empowering your people to be energy efficient in the way they work. Energy efficiency is the "Third Energy Source" after fossil fuels and renewables and can bring them long term financial contributions to your business.

Read our Top Tops to save energy in the workplace by clicking on Top Tips Tab above or visiting www.gaiaactive.com/toptips.asp.

Or request our FREE '42 Tips to save Energy in the Workplace' Booklet.

GAIA

Gaia Active Limited is a rapidly expanding new business serving the UK business community with energy efficiency training and monitoring services.

Working within the exciting environmental conservation market, GAIA helps companies save money and the environment through understanding energy consumption and driving behavioural changes of their staff to be energy aware. This unique approach enables our customers to maintain savings for the long term.

Energy Consultant
Full Time Position – Location Midlands or South East

GAIA seeks an Energy Consultant to help drive our expansion programme and support customers in achieving energy savings.

This role is a fantastic opportunity for an individual with has first class account management skills to help our customers on a daily basis to save energy. Energy expertise is favoured.

Contact Details:
If you have a genuine passion for working in the environmental market and making a difference to UK business and mitigating Climate Change, then email your CV and contact details to Georgina at enquiry@gaiaactive.com.

At GAIA we pride our self on our independence from the Energy Supplier market.

With this in mind we have teamed up with another Energy Saving business who can offer an independent 'Price' Check of your energy contracts to date.

So if you want to 'Price Check' your current deals give GAIA a call on 02476 236446.

Recognising the importance for business to save money in this economic recession. GAIA were pleased to support the Birmingham Telegraphs Energy Saving Edition giving advice for businesses in how to cut energy consumption.

To read about GAIA in the Birmingham Telegraph input the url below into your Browser.

http://www.birminghamtelegraph.co.uk/pdf/2008/tbt_14.11.08/0278-tbt-e01-s2-002-1114-cs.pdf

DENSO, a leading supplier of advanced automotive technology, systems and components for all the world's major automakers, operates in 32 countries and regions with approximately 119,000 employees.

Michael Spencer Facilities and Administration Manager said “Initially I was uncertain whether DENSO Sales UK Limited would benefit from the GAIA energy efficiency programme. DENSO have quite modern facilities so I was unsure we would learn anything new. However since using GAIA, DENSO have been able grasp our energy consumption in much more detail than we expected. Were now able to monitor our energy consumption and, where possible, change our working practices to make savings. We’ve set a range of new energy efficiency goals and GAIA’s helping us achieve these.”

The January Edition of our energy saving newsletter was sent out last week to registered readers.

To read the lastest edition visit our blog at www.gaiaactive.com/wordpress
To subscribe to future Newsletters visit www.gaiaactive.com/mail_signup.asp

GAIA

With 2009 looking like a challenging economic year cost management has returned centre stage for most companies. Top of the list is Energy. Energy savings can be remarkably easy to achieve with the right tools and processes in place. This is where GAIA comes in training companies on how to save with a system to monitor energy savings and report back on success.

GAIA is pleased to welcome a range of new customers in January. By working with GAIA, they will drive down the energy costs for the long term.

This month we welcome a Contact Centre, Hotel Chain, Automotive Components business and a Printer Promotional Garments Manufacturer.

Keen to learn more about GAIA? Call 02476 236446.

The Christmas Edition of our energy saving newsletter was sent out this week to registered readers.

To read the lasts edition visit our blog at www.gaiaactive.com/wordpress

GAIA

Last week struggling US carmakers asked their Government for a $34bn (£23bn) rescue plan to help them ride the economic storm. Congress and the White House have been holding weekend talks to find a solution which may involve diverting funds originally set up to promote fuel-efficient technologies.

Here in the UK 850,000 work directly or indirectly within the Automotive Sector. Unlike the US the UK is more adaptable and nimble than the larger US makers yet they trade in the same tough global market. As yet Gordon Brown has not indicated any support for the industry beyond general fiscal measures so it is up to the industry to do whatever it can to ride the storm alone.

Some of GAIA greatest energy efficiency successes have come form the Automotive Market and we see huge opportunities for the market to make cost reductions. Energy efficiency can cost very little and make returns very fast so its a no brainer in this economic climate.

Don’t assume you are managing efficiency well or you can make no savings, you may be surprised how much you do waste. Call GAIA 02476 236446 and take a trial of our energy efficiency programme.

GAIA

For every £1 you save you put £1 back into your business.

Energy Efficiency & Conservation - Committee on Climate Change Report

Yesterday the Committee on Climate Change said that a cut of 21% (CO2) on 2005 levels was needed for the UK to play its fair share in combatting climate change (BBC News Online).

As we rush headlong into a recession this news can only compound fears for a long drawn out downturn. For the UK to move out of the more cost effective but polluting Coal Power station into Renewables and more green sources of energy (Carbon Capture Coal or Nuclear for example) there is an undoutable cost implication. The cost will be higher energy prices for the future.

All homes and businesses now need to see energy consumption as a priority for reduction. Energy costs have risen by astronomical rates and it looks like there will be no fast reduction only long term stabilisation at these higher levels. So we have to live with it, and the only way to manage is to mange what we use very closely.

The solution energy efficiency and conservation - you could be surprised how much you can save.

Energy Efficiency & Conservation - Committee on Climate Change Report Dec 08

Energy Efficiency & Conservation - 2008 Pre-Budget Report

The Pre-Budget report launched yesterday was not only “exceptional” in its content with the aim to kick start the UK economy, but it was also quite “green”.

Mr Darling announced his plans to bring forward £3bn of capital spending projects from 2011/2012 to next year as a means of creating new jobs. Some will be going on less green areas such as roads but much is on building refurbishment and domestic energy efficiency.

The Chancellor is also keen to see a growth in the Low Carbon/Energy Efficiency economy as a crucial expansion area of the economy.

Changing Behaviour at Home and at Work.

GAIA was especially pleased to read the segment on changing behaviour to home and at work. The crucial component in energy saving is human behaviour. We are often too clouded by gizmos as the route to saving energy when the issue is more to do with our wasteful usage of the scarce energy resources. Therefore any initiative to highlight human behaviour can only be welcome news.

Upcoming Government actions:

Information campaigns about how to save money and carbon.
Consideration of reducing VAT rates to encourage energy efficiency products uptake.
New proposals on zero carbon non domestic buildings
Continuation with improved building regulations.
Smart Meter mandatory installation.
GAIA

Energy Efficiency & Conservation - 2008 Pre-Budget Report Nov 08

GAIA is pleased to launch our new improved regular newsletter. With greater pressure on businesses to cut costs saving energy has never been such a higher priority.

Read the November Newsletter here: http://www.gaiaactive.com/wordpress/

With the tough economic climate more manufaturers are now looking towards energy consumption as the prime area to find savings.

GAIA are now supporting a wider range of manufacturers than ever before saving thousands of pounds each week for our customers.

Has your business the potential to cut consumption?
Find out for FREE: Call us on 02476 236446.

GAIA

Request our newly updated Energy Saving Tips Booklet

Just submit your name and email via our in the 'contact us' page, and we'll email you a PDF version of our booklet. The booklet consists of 42 energy saving tips for the workplace.

GAIA

GAIA will soon launch our new improved regular newsletter. With greater pressure on business to cut costs GAIA will offer regular FREE advice from our newsletter covering the latest tips and trick to driving down consumption.

To register for our FREE newsletter click the Newsletter button on the website and input your email details.

GAIA

ENERGY SAVING IN THE WORKPLACE

GAIA is pleased to launch our Autumn/Winter series of Seminars on 'Energy Saving in the Workplace'.

The seminars held in Coventry & London will cover issues such as:

Energy & Environmental Legislation and the impacts on business.
How energy efficiency can help boost profits.
They key steps to successful and sustainable energy saving.
Attendance is FREE but spaces are strictly limited - so book now to avoid disappointment.

DATES

Friday 5th December 1pm- Central Coventry
Wednesday 10th December 2pm - Central London
Wednesday 7th January 2pm - Central Coventry
Thursday 8th January 2pm - Central London

Click on the seminars button above to book your place.

What's the best way for your business to save energy?
How should you start and where should you start looking to find savings?
How much could you reduce consumption and how are other companies succeeding?

To find out, submit for a free, no obligation energy evaluation of your business. Depending on where you are in the UK the evaluation can take place in person or over the phone.

http://www.gaiaactive.com/energyevaluation.asp

Gaia Active Limited is a rapidly expanding new business serving the UK business community with energy efficiency training and monitoring services.

Working within the exciting environmental conservation market, GAIA helps companies save money and the environment through understanding energy consumption and driving behavioural changes of their staff to be energy aware. This unique approach enables our customers to maintain savings for the long term.

Energy Consultant
Full Time Position – Location Midlands or South East

GAIA seeks an Energy Consultant to help drive our expansion programme and support customers in achieving energy savings.

This role is a fantastic opportunity for an individual with has first class account management skills to help our customers on a daily basis to save energy. Energy expertise is favoured.

Contact Details:
If you have a genuine passion for working in the environmental market and making a difference to UK business and mitigating Climate Change, then email your CV and contact details to Georgina at enquiry@gaiaactive.com.

We all know that we should turn off the lights or turn down the heating but what are the best top tips to save energy in the Workplace?

Energy saving in the workplace should focus on empowering your people to be energy efficient in the way they work. Energy efficiency is the "Third Energy Source" after fossil fuels and renewables and can bring them long term financial contributions to your business.

Read our Top Tops to save energy in the workplace by clicking on Top Tips Tab above or visiting www.gaiaactive.com/toptips.asp

GAIA

Dear Gaia System User,

Gaia is pleased to announce a new improvement to the Energy Consumption Slippage Alerts received by users.

From now on all alerts are being sent from a new server domain with a clearer 'Subject Line' text. This is to help customers easily identify the alerts within the email traffic they receive.

Tip: By setting up a 'rule' within your Outlook settings you can set up a specific directory for your consumption alerts. Then as alerts come is you are notified and the email stored in an easily identifiable area.

Call GAIA is you want help setting this up on 02476 236446.

GAIA

Understanding the key actions needed to save energy in businesses can now be easier thanks to a new ONLINE energy healthcheck service launched today.

www.energy-healthcheck.co.uk is a straightforward question and answers website, which when completed allows managers and owners to produce a customised report on the key areas to focus within their business. The successes of one business can largely transpose to another and the website gathers the key findings from a range of sectors and business types offering practical actions to implement.

“There’s is no point in reinventing the wheel,” says Haydn Young of GAIA Active Limited. “Businesses are finding new and innovative ways to reduce their energy consumption that can be adopted by other businesses. This new website has been designed to give companies who are looking to improve their energy efficiency, a heads up on what actions they can take. Many of these actions involve no extra cost, whilst helping them on the road to saving energy and reducing carbon emissions”.

Energy efficiency is now the number one cost-cutting priority for UK businesses looking to combat the impact of a potential economic slowdown, according to new research released today by the Carbon Trust.

But with UK industry still wasting almost £7 million a day on poor energy efficiency, the Carbon Trust and business groups are urging businesses to seize the potential savings on offer.

Of business leaders surveyed by the Carbon Trust, twice as many say reducing carbon emissions has risen up their agenda in the last six months than those who say it has fallen down (20% vs. 9%). And they now rank energy efficiency ahead of recruitment freezes, redundancies, freezing salaries or giving below inflation pay rises as a potential cost-saving measure.

New statistical analysis by the Carbon Trust also highlights the scale and urgency of the issue, with estimates showing that UK businesses could collectively save nearly £2.5 billion during the next 12 months, simply by implementing cost effective energy efficiency measures. And the savings are not just the preserve of large energy-intensive companies: the potential savings for SMEs alone are around £1.3 billion.

The staggering £2.5 billion figure is equivalent to:

• 13 per cent of UK companies’ energy bills

• The combined annual salaries of more than 100,000 employees on an average wages.

With almost seven in ten (69 per cent) company bosses surveyed either actively cutting costs or considering doing so, the Carbon Trust is urging them to get in touch to seek help in reducing their energy bills and their carbon emissions.

Hugh Jones, Solutions Director at the Carbon Trust, said: “Our research shows that energy efficiency measures, not job cuts or salary freezes, are the cost-cutting steps businesses are considering first during this economically challenging time. It’s an encouraging sign that wise companies are realising that cutting carbon and being green is the easiest way to make a business lean.

“Our new statistics provide stark evidence that if companies are starting to feel the bite from the economic downturn, the first place to look for cost savings should be their energy bill. There are literally millions of pounds going out of the window every day, across the UK.

“We’re talking about money that could be saved by making quick and easy changes such as encouraging staff to turn off computers and lights, turning down the heating, or maintaining equipment properly.”

GAIA offers a FREE Energy Evaluation for businesses keen to manage consumption. The telephone evaluation will review your energy profile, discuss areas for attention and suggest forward actions to implement.

Request your energy evaluation here.
http://www.gaiaactive.com/energyevaluation.asp

Look out for a range of improvements to the www.gaiaactive.com website in the coming weeks

Including:
New tips to save energy in the workplace.
Expansion of the blog element of GAIA offering more information for customers to learn about how they can save energy.

Display Energy Certificates (DECs) and Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs)

Energy Performance Certificates
From April 2008 onwards, organisations are required to collect data to display their companies' energy efficiency and carbon impact (according to building use and size). Buildings ranging from offices to schools and council buildings to shops will all be affected.

Display Energy Certificates
A key component of the DEC legislation is to know the energy that a building uses, through the gathering of consumption data and thereafter demonstrate how you are improving year on year.

Using GAIA you will be able to demonstrate HOW you are actively managing energy, by focusing on the key areas of energy inefficiency.

GAIA can help you with EPCs, DECs and beyond!

For businesses looking at implementing ISO14001, energy forms one the principle elements within the quality standard.

The GAIA system can help you achieve these energy saving goals demonstrating how you are managing energy closely and helping you set targets and demonstrate success.

To help companies identify if energy monitoring is for them we’re offering 3 Month discounted trials for the first 10 businesses to contact GAIA.

Included in the trial is: An Initial Data Highlights report to outline key areas to focus, downloadable Energy Saving pack on how to create sustainable savings, 24/7 energy monitoring live on the web and personal email alerts should consumption exceed limits set by you.

ACT NOW: We're likely to fill all 10 places in the next few days.

Were virtually moving!
During August GAIA will be moving our core domain URL from www.savegaia.net to www.gaiaactive.com.

The key benefit for the move is ease of customers in finding Gaia Active Limited on the web with a more memorable domain site.

www.savegaia.net will continue for the foreseeable future forwarding all traffic to the new site.

GAIA
www.gaiactive.com

With ever increasing energy and raw material prices many UK businesses are recognising that energy efficiency is crucial to retain profitability.

Energy monitoring, previously an operation of only large multi nationals, is now available for all business and GAIA is recognising a significant broadening of customer types seeking energy management services.

Recent new businesses joining GAIA have included Plastics Manufacturers, Component Manufacturers and Hotels.

Rising costs hit UK manufacturers - BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7536920.stm

Manufacturers are cutting jobs to cope with financial pressures
UK manufacturing activity shrunk in July by the fastest rate in almost a decade as firms struggled with higher costs and lower orders, figures show.

Gaia experience in energy monitoring has found significant opportunities for manufacturers to reduce energy consumption. The nature of varied shift patterns, a mixture of process and people consumption and the lack of energy consumption awareness provides a wealth of opportunities to save.

Every year energy consumption creeps up in businesses - put a stop to it.

If you're not monitoring you're not managing. GAIA

EDF Energy has announced it is putting up gas prices by 22% and electricity prices by 17% for domestic customers.

The firm has blamed the increase, which comes into effect on 25 July, on record wholesale energy costs.

EDF have teken the lead but other energy suppliers are likely to follow suit very soon.

The current increase relates to domestic users which includes many smaller businesses already struggling with increased costs.

Cressall Resistors is the world's foremost resistor manufacturer based on Evington Valley Road, in Leicester.Cressall Resistors has 100 years experience in producing power resistors for use in the electro-technical market. With design and manufacturing facilities within the UK, Cressall supply both standard and custom designed resistors for any application from a few watts up to several megawatts and for operation at any voltage. Cressall are committed to total quality and have a Quality Management System approved to ISO 9001:2000.

In June 2008 Cressall, subscribed to the Gaia system to monitor and control their energy consumption. By identifying higher out of hours consumption during night shift operations they identified savings of 280 KWH units per night. Bill Urwin Quality Manager said ‘Using Gaia we have generated a positive financial payback in weeks which can be secured for the long term through the continual monitoring and alarm settings provided by the Gaia system’

www.cressall.com

Dear Gaia Users,

Gaia is pleased to launch our new improved and now downloadable Energy Pack to accompany the Gaia system.
All '3 Steps to Saving' have been rewritten with more tips and advice on achieving and sustaining long term energy savings.

Log into Gaia (www.savegaia.net) in the usual way to find the New Energy Pack.


Happy energy saving!

GAIA

I was honoured to be asked to talk to the South Leicestershire Branch of the FSB last night on Energy Saving in the Workplace. With ever increasing energy prices and a raft of new legislation to encourage business to be more energy aware, there's no better time for companies to control their consumption closely.

Energy monitoring is no longer a tool reserved for multi nationals and for every £1 you save is a £1 back into your business.

Click on my Blog to view the presentation.

Haydn
haydn@savegaia.net

I am delighted to be speaking the forthcoming FSB South Leicestershire Networking event (15th July) at the Greyhound Inn in Lutterworth.

High energy prices, new legislation on buildings energy performance and green taxes are pushing energy efficiency up the business agenda.
I will be talking about the impacts on UK businesses and what steps can be taken to manage energy usage.

We are pleased to launch our newly improved Blog on the www.savegaia.net website. The new blog is much easier to navigate and categorizes our articles making them easier to find.

So if you want to find some simple energy saving tips, understand more about Gaia or have your say on our Forum check out our blog at www.savegaia.net/wordpress.

Gaia is pleased to launch our new 'Test Drive' function on the website.

For new customers we offer 1/2 day passes to view the Gaia system using live data. With a Gaia Test Drive you will be able to:

• Identify times & days where consumption can be curtailed.
• Identify unnecessary consumption spikes for attention.
• Evaluate current base load and potential lower base load.
• Set Gaia to alert for out-of-hours consumption surges.
• Compare weekly/monthly consumption patterns in kw/kwh or C02.
• Set Gaia to alert if site reaches Maximum Demand capacity.
• Understand consumption patterns enabling stronger energy procurement

Dear Gaia System User,

Gaia is pleased to announce a host of new features available now to Gaia online users.

Graphing Feature:
This new features allow customers to zoom in to data more closely by altering the 'X & Y Axis' parameters.
When viewing your energy usage graph simply turn off the Automatic Scaling and select your own X &Y Axis parameters beneath and click 'Redraw Graph'.

Downloading Feature:
For customers using Gaia as an internal communication tool we have added a new download feature. By right clicking on any graph you can save the image to your computer to be imported into the software packages you use.

Graph Dimensions:
To help view your data in more detail and use in presentations, the graphing images size can now be altered by changing the graph dimensions. Just click on the dimensions drop down to choose.

Multi Emails:
For customers choosing to delegate consumption alerts internally you can now add additional email contacts to each meter record. Simply click on ‘Additional Notification' in the Slippage Triggers tab to add in the extra email contacts.

Gaia prides itself on customer driven development. If you have any software development suggestions feel free to share them with us at enquiry@savegaia.net.

Gaia

I am delighted to be speaking the forthcoming FSB South Leicestershire Networking event (15th July) at the Greyhound Inn in Lutterworth.

High energy prices, new legislation on buildings energy performance and green taxes are pushing energy efficiency up the business agenda.
I will be talking about the impacts on UK businesses and what steps can be taken to manage energy usage.

The Gaia Energy Monitoring System is currently undergoing a behind the scenes upgrade.

In the next two weeks some new 'customer requested' features will be added to the site including: Option to request multiple contacts to receive email alerts and an upgraded Energy Pack.

What this space for more details soon. Gaia

Harboro Rubber produces rubber components for a wide range of manufacturing industries including automotive, aerospace, electronic and defense. Driven by the need to maintain both competitive and environmentally responsible, Harboro are using Gaia to control electricity consumption. Consumption irregularities are flagged up direct to the customers email account enabling actions to be taken quickly should usage exceed set parameters.

Jim Tonkin: Engineering Manager said: ” By closely controlling of our maximum demand capacity and responding to energy consumption peaks we have identified significant financial benefits potentially saving us many thousands of pounds per year and reducing our impact to the environment around us ”.

www.harboro.co.uk

The government should go ahead with a system of personal "carbon credits" to meet emissions targets, MPs have said.

Under the scheme people would be given an annual carbon limit for fuel and energy use - which they could exceed by buying credits from those who use less.

Not only do businesses have to consider how they use energy and carbon; potentially every individual will need to watch how much energy they consume.

Read more at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7419724.stm

British Gas warned it may have to take action and raise prices after wholesale gas prices increased by 92% from a year earlier, and wholesale electricity costs doubled

This comes after British Gas has announced 15% rises in electricity and gas prices in January. High wholesale costs are cited as the main cause.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7395430.stm

Further pressure is mounting on UK businesses to limit the effects of rising energy costs. Switching suppliers will help, but all suppliers are expected to increase prices over the coming months. You can end up switching to a supplier with little benefit.

Focus on consumption
Monitoring what you use in your workplace is both effective and affordable in reducing energy consumption. See the 3 Steps to Saving Energy with Gaia to understand how.

http://www.savegaia.net/threesteps.asp

If you’re not monitoring your energy you’re not managing it.

From April 2008 onwards, organisations are required to collect data to display their companies' energy efficiency and carbon impact (according to building use and size). Buildings ranging from offices to schools and council buildings to shops will all be affected.

Regarding Display Energy Certificates, a key component of the legislation is to know the energy that a building uses, through the gathering of data. Energy consumption can actually be collected with minimal disruption and at a low cost by using the Gaia System. Year on year consumption improvements can also be monitored and recorded, as part of the requirement. If the consumption data is easily to hand then swift action can be taken to ensure your organisation is making the grade!

Call Gaia on 02476 236446.

The Government is set to miss more than half the targets it has set on environmental issues since 1997, research has claimed.

A study by centre-right think-tank Policy Exchange said 60% of green aims laid out by Labour have been missed, are unlikely to be achieved or are so vaguely worded as to make analysis of whether they've been met impossible.

Targets set by the Government since it came to power on issues ranging from biodiversity to climate change have been or will be missed, the research claimed.

Future governments will need to make greater efforts and create stricter legislation in order to meet targets. Smart metering, mentioned in the latest budget, is a likely area for further legislation.

Gaia’s smart monitoring system helps businesses meet smart metering objectives and reduce gas and electricity costs.

Read more on this story at http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/20080508/tuk-labour-failing-on-green-targets-6323e80.html

56 consumer companies, such as Google and Apple, have been scored for the second year running on their commitment to the environment.

Non profit group Climate Counts ranks the companies and their findings showed that most scored higher than they did in 2007; however the average was still low.

This does show that companies are taking environmental issues seriously and continually looking for ways to reduce their carbon emissions.

Gaia Active helps companies to measure where they are emitting carbon and helps to identify where savings can be made.

Read more http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/07/business/climate.php

The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and IBM are to survey companies with a good record on gathering and disclosing data on their carbon dioxide emissions, in order to produce a best practice guide.

The guide is likely to show how companies are currently managing carbon within their businesses and help organisations to better manage their own.

To read more visit: http://www.environmental-finance.com/onlinews/0417cdp.html

Remote energy monitoring from Gaia can help you collect carbon figures within your business.

To understand more email enquiry@savegia.net

March was a busy month for Gaia with a broad range of new customers subscribing to our online energy monitoring service. The ability of the Gaia model to suit a range of industries has shown in true colours during March, with a diverse collection of new subscribers.

March subscribers include:

· A Secondary School.

· A Laser metal cutting business.

· A Rubber component manufacturer.

· Two Car component manufacturers.

· A Leisure Centre.

· Hygiene products manufacturer.

· Shoe manufacturer.

· And a Further Education College.

Gaia can help most businesses/organisations to manage their energy consumption.
Let us see if we can help you:

Call us on 02476 236446

email enquiry@savegaia.net.

Do you know your organisations carbon footprint?

A recent amendment to the climate change bill is set to introduce legislation forcing firms to disclose their carbon footprint.

UK listed firms will report their emissions as part of their annual reports. Firms will need to know total amount of fuel usage, from buildings & processes to vehicle use.

Once this is established, the next inevitable step will be to take increase the reach further, incapsulating all sizes of business.

A simple way to understand your total emissions from your site is to undertake energy monitoring. Gaia helps companies to see their gas and electricity carbon emissions online, eliminating the time taken collating meter readings.

To understand more about this story visit http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2213259/lords-backs-plans-mandatory

Consultancy Ernst & Young, in a recent report ranks increasing concern about the environment as ranking in the top ten strategic risks to business.

Environmental challenges could result from stricter regulations, changes in consumer attitudes and extreme weather events.

The challenge is both in becoming green and how far companies should go. The report states that, ‘Going green is expensive, but could pay dividends if consumer tastes and regulation shift quickly’

The report goes on to warn ‘The pace and extent of this new ‘green revolution’ is hard to predict – but what is almost certain is that some firms will get the right fuel mix, real estate portfolio, or carbon footprint, while others will go either too radically green or, more likely, not green enough’

Gaia helps businesses to understand how they are using their energy and helps companies to limit their energy wastage through remote energy monitoring.

Read report at http://www.ey.com/Global/assets.nsf/International/EY_Strategic_Business_Risk_2008/$file/EY_Strategic_Bus_Risk_2008.pdf

Britain has made some inroads into reducing Global Warming and the government statistics are here to back it up.

Overall emissions were down from 652.3 million tonnes in 2006 to 639.4 million tonnes in 2007, provisional statistics from the government said.

For carbon dioxide, net emissions were provisionally down from 554.5 million tonnes in 2006 to 543.7 million tonnes last year - a two percent fall.

The government put the decrease in CO2 emissions down to a switch from coal to natural gas for electricity plus a cut in fossil fuel consumption by households and industry.

To maintain and increase this trend in 2008 then Gaia Active will continue to work with industry and individual organisations to reduce their energy wastage through consumption monitoring and targeted energy saving campaigns.

Read more on this story at http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080327/wl_uk_afp/britainpoliticsenvironmentclimatewarming

Get ready for Scottish &Southern (SSE) to raise its gas and electricity prices. Domestically gas is set to rise by average of 15.8% and electricity by 14.2%.

SSE is the last of the big six energy suppliers to announce large scale increases since the start of 2008. With oil still at more than $100 a barrel prices are likely to remain high.

There may be little that can be done to lower the price of energy so prudent businesses are ensuring that they are not wasting energy to keep their energy costs in control. Gaia’s top tips to save energy in the workplace help businesses to do this.

To order your copy of 44 top tips to save energy in the workplace email enquiry@savegaia.net.

To understand more about the price rises see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7306173.stm

It was heralded as the ‘green budget’ and whilst not delivering a killer blow to tackle Climate change head on, within the detail of the speech there were a few measures that are likely to affect all businesses in the UK.

In Mr Darlings own words “if we are serious about reaching demanding targets then every department in Government, every public sector body, every business, every one of us needs to play its part.”

Outlined below are some of the key quotes and how they might affect your business:

Smart metering -

“We will roll out smart meters to medium and large companies over the next five years, providing greater incentives to reduce the amount of energy they consume.”

Further pressure mounts for businesses to have greater control over their energy consumption. Smart metering, otherwise known as enabling a meter to communicate consumption data direct to a PC, is becoming a reality for all businesses. Expect some legislation in the near future.

Remember, smart metering and remote monitoring of your energy consumption is exactly what Gaia Active offers you. Energy monitoring is all part of the “need to do more to reduce the amount of carbon generated at home and at work.” Gaia helps with making this a reality in the workplace.

Plastic bags -

“Given the damage that single-use carrier bags inflict on the environment, we want to be able to take action. We will introduce legislation to impose a charge on them if we have not seen sufficient progress on a voluntary basis. “

“Legislation would come into force in 2009 and based on other countries’ experience, it could lead to a 90 percent reduction, with around 12 billion fewer plastic bags in circulation.”

Did you think M&S introduced a charge for plastic bags recently for purely green purposes? Perhaps so, but as a leading business they know to act before legislation in order to stay ahead of the competition.

Buildings / Premises -

“I can announce today that new non-domestic buildings will become zero-carbon from 2019.”

Hence the introduction of energy performance certificates for buildings. Be ready for these when looking to move to a new premise or selling / renting your own.

EU Emissions Trading Scheme -

“Aviation must meet its environmental costs, and that is why we want aviation in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme.”

This will put pressure on suppliers within this industry to improve their own environmental standing. It is also another example of the reach of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme spreading to affect further industries. Expect this trend to continue.

Transport -

“Cars that emit less than the proposed 130 grams per kilometre European standard of carbon dioxide emissions will pay no car tax at all in the first year.”

Although fuel duty has been suspended for 6 months, this is a clear indication that pressure will be maintained on manaufacturers to create carbon efficient cars as well as making the business case for businesses to have carbon efficinet fleets. Indeed Mr Darling is “also reforming capital allowances for business cars to increase the incentive to move to lower emitting cars”

Conclusion -

Where will this extra revenue be used?

There is much debate in the media about how the extra revenue from these initiatives will go to funding budget borrowing. Only time will tell, however it was stated “The money raised should go to environmental charities”

Lets hope it really is does prove to be a green budget and any revenue raised is used to help improve the environment as well as making businesses more efficient.

Haydn Young will be presenting at the TEAMnet research group workshop to help the textile industry meet its energy saving challenges and reduce energy consumption through energy monitoring (using smart meter technology)

The workshop takes place on the 11th of March 2008 at the Cropston Visitor Centre from 9am to 12:30pm. Haydn looks forward to seeing you there and helping you to gain control over your energy consumption.

Unable to attend? If you have a query about saving energy within the textile industry, or any other industry, please call 02476 236 446. Alternatively email enquiry@savegaia.net and Gaia will endeavour to help you.

After exhibiting at the Energy Services Technology Association (Monitoring & Targeting) conference at the Ricoh Arena Coventry, Gaia is delighted to be monitoring the energy consumption of even more Midlands based companies.

Gaia is committed to reducing energy consumption and is pleased to help local companies to find effective and affordable ways to gain greater control of their consumption.

Call Gaia for further energy saving information 0247 236 446

Gaia is pleased to presenting at this years Energy Services Technology Association (Monitoring & Targeting) conference at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry 19th February.

With the ever increasing pressure on UK business to reduce energy consumption, Gaia is teaming up with Pilot Systems to present a session dedicated to SMEs. The session titled ‘Bringing metering benefits to smaller sites with limited resources’ explores the new technologies available to support the smaller business who cannot justify employing in-house resources to manage energy.

Eon has announced price rises of 15% in Gas and 9.7% in Electricity to take effect from 8th February.

Eon is the fifth major energy supplier to make recent substantial price increases citing wholesale prices as the driving force.

See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7232370.stm

Pressure continues to mount on UK businesses to limit the effects of rising energy costs. Switching suppliers will help, but all suppliers are expected to increase prices over the coming months. You can end up switching to a supplier with little benefit.

Focus on consumption

Monitoring what you use in your workplace is both effective and affordable in reducing energy consumption.

See Gaia's http://www.savegaia.net/threesteps.asp to understand how.

If you’re not monitoring your energy you’re not managing it.

The growth of Gaia Active Ltd took another step forward as they pitched for further investment at “A Dragons” Den evening at the University of Worcester.

The event had a green theme, with Gaia presenting how, through remote energy monitoring, they are enabling businesses to make energy savings and gain control over their energy consumption.

Haydn Young, Managing Director of Gaia Active Ltd, stated “It is very rewarding to see client’s amazement when they see how much energy they can save at certain times of the day, with just a few simple changes and Gaia’s ongoing monitoring. Customers can reduce consumption and keep it that way! ”.

To read the full article in the Worcester news cut and paste the following link into your browser:

http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/display.var.2059309.0.dragons_den_fun_helps_build_links_with_charity.php

Highly energy efficient businesses don’t just install the latest energy saving technology, they monitor the energy they consume and actively manage their employees to behave in energy efficient ways. This results in sustained savings.

Gaia helps many different types of organisations to undertake energy saving initiatives and to monitor their energy consumption. From this experience, Gaia has compiled 44 Top Tips that can benefit your organisation.

FREE Top Tips Booklet:
Gaia is offering a FREE Top Tips booklet to help your business to reduce it energy consumption. The offer is open until Friday the 8th of February.

To claim your free booklet:
- Call Gaia on 02476 236 446
- Email enquiry@savegaia.net
Please state if you would like your energy saving booklet electronically or posted.

The 2008 EPI, released at the World Economic Forum in Davos, ranks 149 countries on 25 indicators tracked across six established policy categories: Environmental Health, Air Pollution, Water Resources, Biodiversity and Habitat, Productive Natural Resources, and Climate Change.

The Index is produced by a team of environmental experts at Yale University and Columbia University.

The UK fell behind a host of other developed countries including Switzerland and Germany. Whilst the UK is heading in the right direction on environmental issues, we are still way behind other leading nations and the current Governmental push for greener business look set to intensify.

Remember, energy monitoring from Gaia is an effective tool in helping business to lower their carbon emissions and reducing energy wastage with ease, Let us see if we can help you manage your energy better by calling us on 02476 236446.

See the rankings in full: http://epi.yale.edu/Home

British Gas has announced 15% rises in electricity and gas prices. High wholesale costs are cited as the main cause.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7195811.stm

Further pressure is mounting on UK businesses to limit the effects of rising energy costs. Switching suppliers will help, but all suppliers are expected to increase prices over the coming months. You can end up switching to a supplier with little benefit.

Focus on consumption
Monitoring what you use in your workplace is both effective and affordable in reducing energy consumption. See the 3 Steps to Saving Energy with Gaia to understand how.

http://www.savegaia.net/threesteps.asp

If you’re not monitoring your energy you’re not managing it.

Following Npowers recent price rise of up to 27%, EDF have followed suit announcing a 12.9% price rise for gas and a 7.9% increase in electricity prices from Friday 18th January.

Npower price rise:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/jan/04/householdbills.consumeraffairs

EDF price rise:
http://http:/www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/jan/15/householdbills.consumeraffairs

Further pressure is mounting on UK businesses to limit the effects of rising energy costs. Switching suppliers will help, but all suppliers are expected to increase prices over the coming months. You can end up switching to a supplier with little benefit.

Focus on consumption:

Monitoring what you use in your workplace is both effective and affordable in reducing energy consumption. See the 3 Steps to Saving Energy with Gaia to understand how.

If you’re not monitoring your energy you’re not managing it.

January is now a difficult month for energy customers, Npower have just announced a 12.7% Electricity and 17.2% Gas price increase with analysts predicting other UK energy providers will follow suit with their own price rises.
Act now by following these two steps.

Step 1: Monitor your daily energy consumption

By actively monitoring your daily energy consumption you can control your costs. The average UK company wastes up to 20% of their electricity & gas and is unaware of when and how they consume their energy.

Step 2: Change energy suppliers

There are many energy brokers or smaller suppliers offering better deals than the big six energy companies so shop around, yet remember the effects of cheaper energy contracts are often short-lived and some energy providers require longer contracts for competitive deals. Of course the financial benefit of cheaper energy is all the greater if you reduce consumption.

December was a difficult month for energy customers, with two announcements making New Year gas and electricity price increases look a certainty.

Firstly, energy supplier nPower have put up the price of their tracker energy tariff by 15%. The tracker tariff, which ties energy costs to wholesale market prices, is often seen by many as an early indicator of how the sector will behave in the short term.

The second blow came from rival supplier British Gas, with the former monopoly also increasing prices on its tracker tariff, and blaming difficult trading conditions and higher wholesale costs for creating an uncertain market.

How can you mitigate these effects?

Step 1: Use less energy!
Sounds obvious but using less energy is the most effective way to control energy costs. For every pound you save on energy drops straight to your bottom line. You don't need to be an energy expert to save energy, call Gaia on 02476 236446 and we will be you remote energy manager.

Step 2: Swop suppliers: Changing supplier is always wise and their are many energy brokers out there to get you a good deal, yet remember the effects of cheaper energy contracts are often short-lived.

By monitoring your energy consumption with Gaia we can help you keep control your energy consumption for the long term.

Gazprom has given warning that European consumers should expect stiff increases in natural gas prices as the soaring cost of oil feeds through into contracts for the sale of Russian gas into Europe. The cost of wholesale natural gas will rise by between 15 and 20 per cent next year, Alexander Medvedev, the deputy chief executive of Gazprom, said. He added that even greater increases could follow if the European Commission pushes through measures to break up Europe’s gas grid.

The soaring price of crude oil, which this week flirted with $100 per barrel, will soon feed through into natural gas prices, stoking inflationary pressures in Europe. British consumers are unlikely to be spared the effects of a Russian price increase as the two markets are linked by an inter-connector pipeline between Norfolk and Belgium. In Britain’s free-for-all competitive gas market, contracts for gas are bought and sold daily on a futures exchange.

For more details on this story see:http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/natural_resources/article2933504.ece

Be prepared for rising gas price in the coming year. Let Gaia Active monitor you energy consumption and help you begin to drive down your gas consumption. Email enquiry@savegaia.net

The increases have been predicted by research from brokers Catalyst. Reasons behind the rise include lessening oil supply from North Sea fields and general wholesale price increases - a barrel of crude oil currently holds an unprecedented $100 market price.

For more on this story see http://www.uswitch.com/news/energy/OctDec2007/report-predicts-10-rise-in-energy-bills.cmsx?ref=google_uk

Not good timing for UK businesses - this winter is expected to be colder than last, further increasing the demands for energy.

Gaia Active will be helping businesses lessen the impact of this rise in energy costs. Gaia will monitor their energy consumption and ensure they act to keep their consumption and subsequent bills down. To let Gaia monitor your energy consumption call 024 7623 6446 or email enquiry@savegaia.net

The Carbon Trust argues that a lack of time and expertise is preventing small and medium businesses from reducing their carbon emissions and making energy savings. Not surprising when there is no clear standard set on carbon foot printing and a whole plethora of methods to improve energy efficiency.

However, there are some simple and swift steps that most SMEs can undertake, even if they lack time and expertise. The energy monitoring system from Gaia can be effectively utilised in as little as 10 minutes a week and helps increase understanding of your own energy consumption.

Gaia active is committed to helping SMEs reduce their energy consumption and subsequent carbon emissions. The Gaia system is designed to be used by any member of an organisation and requires very little time to use. Gaia monitors the energy usage in a building, alerting the user only when consumption is consistently creeping upwards. All the SME requires is someone with a desire to reduce energy consumption and help the environment. Expert advice is on hand to help users undertake energy saving campaigns and maintain energy and carbon savings.

For more information call 024 7623 6446. Or email enquiry@savegaia.net

Read the article at www.carbontrust.co.uk/about/presscentre/161007_SME+research+loans+campaign.htm

Gaia would like to thank all the business and public sector leaders that talked to us about energy saving solutions and how organisations can reduce their carbon footprint. Gaia active is currently working with various companies, effectively monitoring their energy and carbon emissions.

Remember that the simplest action any business can undertake to cut carbon emissions is to reduce their energy consumption.

Gaia active can help public sector organisations reduce their carbon emissions. Call us on 024 7623 6446.

The conference will take place on Friday 23rd November at the NEC Birmingham. The main focus is on the restructuring required for Britain to reach its carbon goals, including decentralised energy and low carbon schools. Gaia will be exhibiting alongside such names as Advantage West Midlands, BT and the West Midlands Regional Assembly. The Rt. Hon. Joan Ruddock MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Environment is confirmed as Key Speaker.

Gaia will be discussing how monitoring an organisations energy consumption and acting on this information can reduce consumption by as much as 20%. Gaia is confident that most organisations can significantly lower their carbon emissions in a short space of time and with little operational impact. Monitoring energy consumption and carbon emissions will become an increasingly critical tool in reducing carbon emissions.

For more information about the conference visit www.climate-change-solutions.co.uk/ .
For energy monitoring from info contact Gaia at enquiry@savegaia.net

Gaia had a successful day today, discussing energy monitoring and energy saving with leading businesses from the West and East Midlands region. Gaia co-exhibited with Pilot Systems to show organisations how easy it is to see their energy consumption and to begin to see savings.

Gaia was pleased to see so many organisations, such as universities, factories and hospitals, not only interested in seeing what they energy they were consuming, but also how to use the data to help manage energy usage behaviour of employees. Gaia, specialists in revealing energy consumption data and using the data to engage people, were very active in discussing ways to harness the power of people to reduce organisations carbon emissions.

Gaia looks forward to working with many of these organisations going forward and helping reducing their carbon footprint.

Gaia is particularly busy this week meeting with businesses to help them save energy and reveal their energy consumption. With this being the start of energy saving week, Gaia has been supporting many Midlands companies in extra ways they can reduce their energy consumption, help reduce carbon emissions and ultimately save themselves money on their utility bills.

In addition, we at Gaia have been taking extra care to be energy efficient. We're ensuring that all monitors are turned off when someone is away from the screen, blinds and curtains have been drawn at dusk to keep heat in the building and we have all been sporting the latest in sweater chic.

Good luck to everybody with their energy saving this week and feel free to call us or email if you would like some further free top tips on saving energy in the workplace.

02476 236 446

enquiry@savegaia.net

As a Coventry based company promoting energy saving measures in organisations, it only felt right that Gaia Active take part in the “Switch it Off” campaign.

For 5 days, from Monday 30th October to Friday 3rd November, Gaia Active and many other organisations, will attempt to turn off all unnecessary lighting and electrical appliances.

Of particular interest to Gaia Active is the fact that on Friday 3rd of November electricity use in Coventry, Warwickshire and Worcestershire will be measured between 4:30pm and 6:30pm. Gaia Active are firm believers in the motivational power of monitoring energy consumption to drive people to save energy. We will be waiting eagerly to see the data from the turn off.

I encourage you to take part and if you need any information or advice please see the links below or contact us for a few tips on saving energy at work or creating an energy awareness campaign.

http://www.coventry.gov.uk/ccm/navigation/environment/sustainable-development/switch-it-off-campaign/

http://www.savegaia.net/toptips.asp

Gaia Active successfully exhibited at the first Leicester Business Event last Wednesday. It was a pleasure to talk to so many companies from Leicester and surrounding areas, such as Nottingham, Coventry and Derby. Clearly energy management is very high on people’s agenda’s with everyone keen to understand how they can reduce their energy wastage. Leicester business leaders are embracing the need to set targets for reducing their energy and carbon consumption, as well as driving down their energy costs at the same time.

We look forward to speaking to many of you again and helping many of you improve your working environment, for both your colleagues and customers, by embracing energy monitoring from Gaia Active.

Gaia Active were again featured in a leading call centre publication, CCF online, expertly talking about ways to save energy in call centre's.

It is becoming increasingly important for all types of business to embrace the need to reduce their carbon emissions and show that they are a green business. To do this its imperative to ensure your employees are involved in green initiatives at all levels. Energy saving campaigns can be very useful tools in this respect.

To see the article please visit CCF online at http://www.callcentre.co.uk/c/journal/view_article_content?groupId=10231&articleId=65461


To find out more about saving money in your call centre or running an energy saving campaign then please contact Gaia Active at enquiry@savegaia.net or call 02476 236 446.

Please feel free to come and talk to us at the forthcoming Leicester Business Event n the 3rd of October at the Walkers Stadium, Filbert Way, Leicester. The event is open from 10am to 4.30pm and is free to all visitors.

It will be a great opportunity to come and talk to us about understand how we can help you can save energy in your business.

So whether you want to:

• Reduce your daily energy profile of Gas ,Electricity or Water.
• Improve your businesses reputation through green initiatives.
• Install Smart Metering devices.
• Reduce your Carbon Footprint.
• Understand how your business impacts on Climate Change.
• Learn about the potential changes in Environmental legislation on business.
• Get some simple energy efficiency tips.
• Or just want a general chat, we would love to speak to you.

FREE ENERGY CONSULTATION
As an exclusive to the Leicester Business Event we are offering 10 Midlands businesses a free 1 hour energy consultation at their premises. Come to our stand to assess if your business can take advantage of this offer.

We look forward to meeting you there.

Extract from Contact Centre link.com - the leading dedicated online service for the contact centre industry.

Haydn Young, Managing Director of Gaia, an independent British company who specialise in saving businesses money on their energy bills, has come up with his top ten tips for ways to saving energy in the call centre environment

The whole issue of conserving energy and looking at how we can become more environmentally aware in the workplace has become a hot topic – and with good reason. The Carbon Trust state that every year £2.4 billion, (or 21%) of the total spent by UK businesses on energy is squandered. In call centres, this wastage can be particularly significant – as high as 30%! Whilst no body wants to see energy (and money) wasted, the problem is knowing what to do about it.

Link to full article with 10 tips for saving money in your workplace.

http://contactcentrelink.com/ShowMail.aspx?ID=1962

Haydn featured on BBC Radio Leicester (Rupal Rajani show) today taking about 'Energy saving in the Workplace'. A staggering £21 billion pounds is wasted each year by UK businesses leaving items on when not neccessary. For local Leicestershire businessess keen to save energy, we are offering a copy of our '44 Tips to Save Energy in the Workplace' booklet. To obtain one email haydn on haydn@savegaia.net.

Whether it’s for financial reasons or environmental concerns, you won’t want to miss out on this opportunity to cut your energy bills by as much as a third. Our simple to follow guide will give you practical steps you can take to reduce your energy consumption. For every pound saved in energy costs, a pound is added to your profitability. Many companies are also keen to be seen as being ‘green’ in the eyes of the public and their customers. Whatever the reason you want to save energy, this free guide gives you 44 simple effective ideas. This guide has been written and researched by us at Gaia – an independent British company who specialise in saving business owners money on their energy bills. We are initially providing it free of charge to ensure as many companies as possible are aware of just how easy it can be to reduce their impact on the environment whilst increasing their profits. To claim your free copy (worth £4.95) please e-mail your contact details to haydn@savegaia.net or phone us on 01858 419 804 and mention the website or radio promotion. We’ll be happy to post you a copy or can send you a pdf version by e-mail if you prefer.

Gaia Active today welcomes Stephen Thompson. Steve will undertake marketing responsibilities as well as bringing additional utilities and metering experience from his 3 years with National Grid.

Connect Midlands - funded by East Midlands Development Agency (emda) - has announced 20 companies in the East Midlands have been shortlisted for the £5 Million Investment Challenge, sponsored by BT Business, which offers up to £5 million in equity funding for high-growth and technology businesses.

We are thrilled to be part of this select group of East Midlands companies identified for their high growth potential and market appeal.

http://www.emda.org.uk/news/newsreturn.asp?fileno=3262

BY ANDY GILGRIST
BUSINESS EDITOR LEICESTER MERCURY

10:30 - 20 August 2007

Three firms are dreaming of securing up to £5 million investment in a Dragons' Den-style showdown with other small businesses.

The three Leicestershire companies are among 20 technology ventures through to the shortlist in the Connect Midlands £5 million Investment Challenge.

Next month, the trio will pitch for a share of the cash, with a panel of investors eliminating half the shortlist before a final showdown between 10 firms. The winners will be announced in October.

The county businesses still in the running are Harborough firm Gaia Active, and TTE Systems and UKOP, both from Leicester.

Isabell Majewsky, director of the not-for-profit Connect Midlands organisation, said: "We were overwhelmed by the diversity of businesses developing in the Midlands and by the standard of applicants to this year's challenge.

It was a tough decision to select only 20 shortlisted businesses, but now the judges have an even harder choice to select just 10 finalists."

UKOP, based in Braunstone, is developing tailored sports garments to keep players cooler for longer in games where a fuller shirt is needed, such as cricket, football, tennis and equestrian events.

Tony Messiou, of UKOP, said winning investment would help his business move forward.

His technology has been tested at Loughborough University.

He said: "It works like convection, like a radiator, venting away from the body. Because it has less contact with the body, you don't get a big patch of sweat which can cling."

TTE Systems, in New Walk, is a spin-out firm from the University of Leicester. It has previously been backed by the Lachesis Fund, which supports research at the five East Midlands universities, and regional development agency Emda.

Gaia Active, which uses remote, constant monitoring of customer's energy consumption to alert them to waste and potential cost savings, is based at Farndon Road, in Market Harborough.

The Investment Challenge, sponsored by BT, is also backed by the Catapult Venture Managers, of Enderby, which is running investment funds in the East and West Midlands. Those schemes are backed by the Growth Investment Network East Midlands and Emda.

Paul Bimson, BT regional manager, said: "We understand how hard it is for small businesses to establish themselves in worldwide markets, the first few years being the most critical."

The project is also backed by investment initiative the East Midlands Early Growth Fund.

Nicholas Wright, the fund's investment executive, said: "I'm looking forward to meeting some great entrepreneurs and hearing excellent pitches."

The winners will be named at a ceremony on October 10 at Kilworth House Hotel, in south Leicestershire.

During August Gaia has expanded into our new office at the Technology Park in Coventry. The Coventry University Technology Park is the ideal destination for fast growing high tech businesses and we are delighted to be moving in.

Our new (HQ) address will be Gaia Active Limited, The TechnoCentre, Unit 2.1, Coventry University Technology Park, Puma Way, Coventry, CV1 2TT.

Gaia will maintain our current East Midlands address in Market Harborough.

Gaia is pleased to launch our new website, branding and energy information service at www.savegaia.net
The website brings together on one site our free information in the form of e-newsletters, top tips and our Energy Evaluation tool with our subscriber only Remote Monitoring and Targeting System.

Gaia has successfully tested the Meterpod TM technology from Pilot Systems in a Manufacturing facility in the West Midlands. As a result our customer can now receive half hourly online to identify areas of consumption and take the necessary actions to cut wastage.

We are pleased to announce our new logo and branding to promote our Remote Monitoring and Targeting Service. Drawing from the climate change theme we chose the sphere as the ideal representation of Gaia with the strap line ‘Empowering business to save energy’. We believe the only way companies can maintain long term energy saving, is by engaging their staff behind the programme. With the a Gaia subscription we provide both the data and the support mechanism to do this.

Within four weeks of access, RSM Industries was able to make two substantial savings as a result of being able to see their gas consumption data.

• Their weekend pattern highlighted heating was being left on unnecessarily; this was corrected resulting in savings of about £50 per month.

• A further other saving arose identifying a sudden increase in background use of gas equivalent to £500 a month extra. RSM noticed from the graphs that the increase started at the same time that some work was done on a gas boiler. They investigated, found the boiler had been left set incorrectly after that work, and corrected the problem.

Had it not been for our smart meters and data, it may have taken many weeks for the additional usage to have come to light.