NEF Training - free places for SMEs!
The National Energy Foundation will be running the following training sessions in May/June 2011
One Stop MCS:
5th May, Milton Keynes
14th June, Reading
13th July, Milton Keynes
Introduction to Renewable Energy
4th May 2011, National Energy Centre, Milton Keynes
6th July 2011, National Energy Centre, Milton Keynes
Solar PV
17th May, Milton Keynes
To book, please click here: http://www.nef.org.uk/energytraining/index.htm.
FREE PLACES AVAILABLE
Small and medium sized companies working in the construction sector based in the South East of England can attend this course for FREE through the European Funded SMART Programme funded by European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
For further information or to book please go to http://www.businesslowcarbon.co.uk/smart-events or
call Katie Couchman on 01634 820464
Organisational Carbon Footprinting Workshop
29th June 2011, The Hatton, London
Increasingly, organisations are encouraged to calculate and report their carbon footprint and for many organisations this can be a complicated task. In order to increase expertise in the market, the Carbon Trust Standard is offering a series of one day training course on the basics of carbon footprinting.
Based on experience of assessing over 500 corporate carbon footprints, the key focus of the course is to:
- Understand the principles of carbon footprinting
- Be able to define, collate and calculate a basic carbon footprint
- Produce a basic carbon footprint report
- Be aware of the main footprinting standards
- Learn about the Carbon Trust Standard
This course is ideal for anyone with a responsibility for or interest in producing and reporting an organisational carbon footprint and those considering assessment under the Carbon Trust Standard. On completion, participants receive a certificate of completion from the Carbon Trust Standard Company Ltd, plus course materials.
Sustainable Energy Decision Making – where to put your money?
Date: 12th July 2011
National Energy Centre, Milton Keynes
RETScreen is a highly sophisticated tool capable of evaluating the techical, financial and environmental impact of a wide range of sustainable energy technologies, both individually and in combination. In association with National Energy Foundation, Hermes Energy Services is presenting a one day workshop to give you the skills to use RETScreen to make robust sustainable energy decisions.
If you understand the principles of renewable energy and energy efficiency, but want to get serious and make investment decisions, RETScreen is ideal for providing robust financial assessments as well as assessing CO2 savings and energy produced/saved.
You will gain hands on experience using RETScreen through a combination of presentation and working through specific cases.
Two renewable energy technologies will be considered in detail and guidance given on other energy technologies.
Link: http://www.nef.org.uk/energytraining/ret-screen.html for more details.
