Can you give us an example of a company or a sector that has made real progress in shifting towards cleaner energy and what made it possible?
Andrew Toher: What I have seen to be successful is those organisations that have really pulled their sustainability, their purchasing, their finance teams together around this energy line item topic and approach it from a global perspective.
I’ ve also seen a lot of companies that continue to manage their energy purchasing in a decentralised manner. And I think the companies that are making the most progress are following that centralised approach, doing a lot of work on stakeholder management, being prepared to bring external expertise into the organisation, collaborating with consultancies and with supply chain and defining a kind of master plan that they’ re prepared to continually revisit and access the projects and solutions as they become available.
Saleh ElHattab: Some of the most exciting stories are that we have successfully found a number of different organisations that benefit massively from taking advantage of the fact that they aren’ t a grid that’ s very highly demanded of. And so demand response paired with battery energy and energy storage not only gets them a check from their utility provider, but allows them to use offpeak energy, which is much cleaner than the peak energy, which has to tap into these dirtier energy sources. And so we rinse and repeat. It’ s very replicatable. The math of it is common sense. The CFO gets really excited and somebody who may have been a naysayer before ends up being an evangelist for batteries, which is fantastic.
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