Reduce waste and save energy
Investment in energy efficiency and waste management projects will reduce your business costs significantly.
We provide expert advice to Northern Ireland businesses to help develop business specific waste management strategies. Our tailored advice, support and funding can help your business operate more efficiently, minimise waste, reduce costs and improve your impact on the environment.
Support includes:
- Sustainability Reports to assess, measure and monitor environmental impact and performance
- Technical consultancy for bespoke energy and waste management strategies and recommendations
- Resource matching service to manage waste and reduce costs
- Resource Efficiency Capital Grant
Sustainability Reports
We are now offering Sustainability Reports for businesses which is an holistic assessment/understanding of a business’s environmental performance across a number of areas, such as; Raw Materials, Energy, Carbon, Packaging, Biodiversity and Waste.
This support will enable you to measure, monitor and report on your environmental impacts, demonstrating transparency and accountability, which often leads to consumer confidence and brand loyalty.
This support is available to all Northern Ireland businesses with an annual energy and resource spend of more than £30k. This could include the combined value of your heating, electricity, water, waste disposal or raw material billings.
Contact us and we can explore options for your business together.
Technical Consultancy
Our technical consultancy support can help your business identify areas for increased efficiency and cost savings. We provide specialist support to complete bespoke energy saving projects such as technical audits and feasibility studies.
This support will allow you to make informed decisions on potential investments in energy efficiency – and ultimately save on business energy and reduce business costs.
Technical Consultancy is available to all businesses with an annual energy and resource spend in excess of £30k.
Find out more about Technical Consultancy support
Contact us and we can explore options for your business together.
Resource Matching
Our Resource Matching service offers opportunities to convert redundant materials of one business into a resource for another – both adding value and reducing business costs for all parties.
As well as benefiting from cost savings and productivity improvements, this service allows businesses to prolong the life of resources whilst reducing your carbon footprint.
Find out more about the Resource Matching Service
Contact us and we can explore options for your business together.
Resource Efficiency Capital Grant
We can provide investment support of up to £50k to help you invest in resource efficient equipment that will drive productivity in your business. This applies to any project that will reduce the consumption of water, raw materials or waste production. ;
The rate of support is based on company size - a maximum of 10% of total eligible project costs for large businesses, 20% for medium and 30% for small and micro.
This support is open to Invest Northern Ireland customers only.
The call for the Resource Efficiency Capital Grant (RECG) opens for applications on Tuesday 4 April 2023, closing 16 May at 17:00. If you are an Invest NI customer and would like to find out more, including how to apply, please contact your client executive or Contact us to discuss.
Animation - How Invest Northern Ireland's Energy & Efficiency team can help you
Resource efficiency guides
We have produced a series of best practice resource efficiency guides on topics including biomass, lighting, packing, waste minimisation and water efficiency to name a few.
Energy and Resource Efficiency Tutorial Series
Through our tutorials, we offer you support and advice to help your business operate more efficiently, minimise waste, reduce costs and contribute towards net zero.
Energy and Resource Efficiency Tutorial Series
Learn how Invest NI can support your business with our Energy and Resource Efficiency Tutorial Series
Not sure that this support is right for you? Contact us and we can explore options for your business together.
Our support may be subject to some eligibility criteria
