Sustainable Travel at E.ON
Graham Bartlett,
Managing Director, E.ON Energy Solutions
Monday, 13 April 2015
Why am I here…
To give a brief overview of:
• Vision and objectives of E.ON Energy Solutions
• Why transport and travel is important
• Outline some of the initiatives we’ve delivered on sustainable travel
• Outline the benefits to E.ON, colleagues and the environment
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Who are E.ON
E.ON are one of the UK's leading energy suppliers and the second
largest electricity generator in the UK.
We are part of E.ON AG, the world's largest investor-owned power
and gas company, which has its headquarters in Germany
We produce c.10% of the UK’s electricity, and sell electricity and gas
to around 8 million customers covering domestic, SME and industrial
markets. E.ON also offers central heating and boiler care
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What is E.ON about?
E.ON is about cleaner & better energy. Nothing more and nothing
less.
Cleaner energy is our commitment to customers and business
partners to make, move and market energy more cleanly and
efficiently
Better energy is our commitment to continually improving ourselves,
designing better products for our customers and differentiating
ourselves from our competitors
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Sustainable Travel in context…
It is one part of our objective to reduction the impact of our internal
operations, and is in addition to:
• Emission capping of company cars at 150g/km
• Business lead mileage reduction targets
• Roll out of telemetric systems in commercial vehicles
• Electronic meeting solutions
• Water reduction targets
• Building energy reduction targets
• Employee engagement to take work lead behaviour home to
reduce emissions
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Why is sustainable travel important to us
Sustainable travel allows us to deliver on our commitment of cleaner
& better energy by:
• Reducing carbon emissions and costs associated with how we
travel on business
• Travelling less helps us to reduce pollution, waste and what we
use in the running of our business
• Helping employees to reduce the costs and carbon emissions
associated with the daily commute.
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What we’ve done
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Sustainable travel at E.ON
• Green Travel scheme in place since 2001
• Over 3,900 members nationally
• We promote:
• Car sharing
• Public transport
• Company buses
• Walking
• Cycling
• Electronic meeting solutions
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Car Sharing
• Over 400 guaranteed spaces
at eight office locations
• Emergency guaranteed ride
home
• Spaces self managed by staff
• Online matching tool
• Over 3200 people registered
• Supported by local
management teams
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Company and Public bus services
• Company routes where no public
transport alternatives available
• Contracted company coach service with
Skills Coaches
• Free access for staff to company
coaches and specific Trent Barton
services
• Published route maps & timetables on
noticeboards and intranet
• Green Travel Surgeries including local
bus providers
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Cycling
• Changing rooms with lockers and showers
• Revised site access to make cycle friendly
• Launched TravelShare journey matching tool for
cyclists
• Increased the amount of secure cycle storage at
Phoenix Ctr and Newstead Court in the Notts area
• Cycle2work scheme linked to Flexible Benefits
• Ongoing discount with high street and online
providers such as Halfords, Evans Cycles and
Wiggle.com
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Video conferencing
We’ve invested in updating our video conferencing systems to allow
for better reliability and quality.
Telemeet:
Is our one or two screen HD video conferencing solution which is
provided over our own network.
Telepresence:
Is our immersive HD video conferencing that makes it feel like you
are entering the same room and sitting at the same table as your
colleagues or partners
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Telemeet
• 2010: Oct to Dec
• 625 meetings
• 99.68 tonnes of CO2 saved
• 4890 hrs of travel time
saved
• £231, 496 saved
• 2011: Jan to Mar
• 712 meetings
• 86.6 tonnes of CO2 saved
• 5100 hrs of travel time
saved
• £209,830 saved
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Telepresence
2009: June to Dec
403 meetings
108.4 tonnes of CO2 saved
3918 hrs of travel time
saved
£142,814 saved
2010
974 meetings
303.92 tonnes of CO2 saved
10,182 hrs of travel time
saved
£593,181 saved
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Walking
• Promote the events created by
Living Streets to sites where
colleagues live within 2 miles
of site
• Encourage people to leave
there desks at lunchtime
through pedometer challenges
• Raise awareness of walking
through fun campaigns such
as “unleash your office animal”
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What makes it work?
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External Partnerships
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Internal Partnerships
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What are the benefits
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To E.ON
• Car park management
• Reduces the potential cost impact of Workplace Parking Levy
• Minimises the need for overflow car parking
• Reduces the travel costs of the business
• Telemeet and Telepresence saved us £824, 677 in 2010
• Increases productive work time that is lost in travelling
• Telemeet and Telepresence gave us back 15,072 hrs of work
time in 2010
• Supports our Active Energy programme
• Cyclists gave ‘fitness’ and ‘less stressful journeys’ as the key
reasons for travelling sustainably
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To colleagues
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The Environment
We’ve reduced our travel CO2 emissions in 2010 by an
estimated:
• Telemeet and Telepresence
390.52 tonnes
• Contracted and Public buses
130.78 tonnes
• Car sharing
125.24 tonnes
Estimated mileage reduction of:
• Carsharing
572, 000 miles
• Contracted and Public Buses
597, 300 miles
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Recognition
• Gold award Green Apple environmental award 2010, Green
Practices: Sustainable Travel, The Green Organisation 2010
(National)
• Winner Sustainable Travel: Commuting & Business Travel in the
Business in the Community Regional Sustainable Travel Awards
2010 (regional East Midlands)
• Winner Business Mileage Champion – Energy Saving Trust Fleet
hero Awards 2009 (national)
• Winner of the Big Wheel Business Club Awards 2008 for sustainable
travel business with 250+ employees (local - Nottingham )
• Highly Commended commuter friendly workplace of the year – ACT
Travelwise awards 2008 (national)
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Summary
Sustainable travel has helped E.ON in
• Reducing carbon emissions and costs associated with
how we travel on business
• Helping employees to reduce the costs and carbon
emissions associated with the daily commute.
• Travelling less helps us to reduce pollution, waste and
what we use in the running of our business
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