The Energy Event to be carbon neutral

The organisers of The Energy Event have employed the services of a specialist energy and environmental consultancy to analyse and measure the event's carbon footprint.

Tenby Consultancy Group will then ensure that the event's carbon emissions are offset through investment in energy efficiency projects across the world, making the event carbon neutral.

The Energy Event, which is the UK's only annual exhibition and conference focused on energy procurement, management and efficiency, takes take place on 12 and 13 September 2007 at The National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham.

Eamonn Brennan, Event Director, said: "Every business has a responsibility to the environment to ensure that it uses energy efficiently and makes every effort to reduce its waste and carbon emissions.

"The Energy Event is no exception and, as a key diary date in the energy calendar, we intend to lead by example to our exhibitors and visitors".

As well as lowering its carbon emissions as much as possible in the first instance by reducing energy usage and waste, The Energy Event will be offsetting the rest of its carbon footprint by investing in a number of projects across the world via the well known carbon offsetting specialists Climate Care.

Trevor Floyd, principal consultant at Tenby Consultancy Group, who is advising the organisers on measuring and offsetting The Energy Event's carbon emissions, said: "It's not enough just to plant trees; after all, taking ownership of a tree is a bit tenuous.

"Climate Care is a well respected company that specialises in investing money into deserving projects around the world that look at energy efficiency and renewable energy as well as forest restoration".

He added: "To get to the point where The Energy Event is investing in such projects, we have assessed the energy the event will use in terms of electricity and gas in The National Motorcycle Museum based on the rooms being used and the catering facilities required for example: we then used an equation based on the number of kilowatt hours of energy used to obtain the amount of carbon emissions in tonnes.

"In the past 12 months I've seen a huge increase in the number of companies expressing an interest in offsetting their carbon emissions; however, The Energy Event is one of the few that are actually doing it already".

Entry to The Energy Event is free but attendees are advised to register in advance to guarantee a place.

On the website visitors can find more details about the conference programme and seminars taking place as well as the exhibitors who will be showing a mix of products and services.

The Energy Event is the newly rebranded Energy show organised by Western Business Exhibitions.

The show began as an exhibition and conference event in 2000 and moved from Sandown race course to its current home at The National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham in 2001 (while the Museum was being redeveloped following a fire the event took place at Telford's International Centre in 2004).

As well as British Energy as the event's official sponsor there are other sponsors including: EDF Energy, e.on, Encore International, Space Airconditioning, Llumarlite and Philips Lighting.

Reflecting the rightful claim to be 'the' most important energy focused event that takes place during the year many other organisations and bodies arrange their activity around the event.

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