Prospects For Energy Service Companies

By Stephen Cirell and Peter Walker

The area of climate change is of increasing importance to local authorities. Not only are there key issues such as compliance targets for emissions under the Climate Change Bill to address, but the wider context of energy procurement in a market where prices are likely to increase sharply over coming years.

In these circumstances, local authorities should be looking to the future and to finding solutions that will help them comply with these targets and dovetail with their Sustainable Community Strategy and other policies.

If it were possible to find solutions to those issues, which also ticked a wide variety of other boxes (such as Gershon efficiency and Best Value, Community Leadership, and Economic Regeneration, to name but a few) then local authorities would be very interested. We believe these solutions are now on the horizon.