The TPE and SMES who want to reduce their energy consumption and their waste will be able to enjoy the support of an expert. Mode of employment.

Be accompanied by a professional to learn to better manage its waste and its consumption. The companies that want to improve their energy balance can now be coachées if they wish. The initiative launched on Thursday 9 November by the development Agency and energy management (Ademe).

After you have tested the device from 49 companies last year, the Ademe generalizes therefore the approach by extending it to 500 businesses and SMES. To be retained, a company may file its application on the open site by the Ademe and baptized VSES AND SMES winning on all costs.

An action plan anti-waste

The device, funded by the Ademe, is open to enterprises of the industry, distribution and catering, which have between 20 and 250 employees.

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The agency sends in the companies, an expert in energy efficiency analysis, energy consumptions, wastes, and potential savings, and then he proposes a plan of actions that the company will have to implement.

The latter undertakes to repay to the French the half of a floor of savings identified. But if she does not realize that floor savings, it does nothing.

It is therefore “winning every time”, as well as the Ademe, in the words of its director-general. “The Ademe takes the initial risk of the investment, which allows to solve the “problem of the passage to the act”, advance Fabrice Boissier.

tens of thousands of tons of CO2 in less

last year, the 49 companies in guinea pigs have produced 3 million euros of savings. The emission of 9,000 tonnes of CO2 have been avoided and 13.500 tonnes of materials were saved over the period.

“The issue is a result. If all the SMES are doing this effort, several tens of thousands of tons of CO2 and waste products which are saved”, has defended the president of the Ademe Bruno Lechevin, adding that this shows “that take action on energy, on waste, on the environment it is cost-effective”.

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in the long term, the goal is to be able to further extend this scheme to a larger number of companies.