by Jonathan Gardiner | Jul 23, 2024 | Company News, News
We’re thrilled to welcome back Euan Lamont to Total Utilities as an Account Executive. Euan’s return marks an exciting chapter for us as we continue to innovate and expand our offerings in the utility sector.
Euan first joined us in January 2018 as a Sales Manager for the Lower North Island, a role he held until mid-2022.
During this period, he focused on energy procurement, working closely with our Auckland team to deliver comprehensive services to our clients.
Experience & Expertise
Before joining Total Utilities the first time around, Euan gained significant experience working with an electricity retailer, where he collaborated with us on various tenders and procurement projects. His deep understanding of the energy market made his transition to Total Utilities seamless, and he quickly became a key player in our sales team.
In his new role as Account Executive, Euan will leverage his extensive background in all things energy and utilities, coupled with his recent experience in B2B (business to business) SaaS (Software as a Service), to drive our product offerings.
Driving Innovation
Since 2022, he has been involved in the B2B SaaS sector, focusing on compliance and efficiency-based solutions. “The shift to software sales has been a fascinating journey so far,” he shares. “I’m excited to bring this expertise back to Total Utilities and help our clients navigate these new tools.”
Euan’s return comes at a pivotal time for Total Utilities, as we continue to integrate innovative solutions like Panoramic Power – a real-time energy monitoring system, and Net0 – our advanced AI-first carbon management tool, into our comprehensive services. Both products have been instrumental in helping businesses manage their energy use and carbon emissions.
Euan’s ability to build strong relationships, solve problems, and understand customer needs, will be crucial as we navigate these opportunities.
Game-Changing AI Services
Euan is particularly excited about the potential of Net0 and Panoramic Power to revolutionise how businesses manage their energy use and carbon emissions. “These aren’t just ‘rearview-mirror’ tools for tracking data,” he explains. “They use AI and machine learning to help companies anticipate and proactively manage their energy consumption and carbon footprint. It’s a game-changer.”
As Euan settles back into the team, he says he is eager to contribute to our strategic growth and help our clients achieve their goals. “I’m looking forward to helping our clients reach new heights in their sustainability journeys. Whether it’s enhancing efficiency, cutting costs, or driving innovation, there’s so much potential, and I’m excited to be part of it,” he adds.
Please join us in welcoming Euan back to Total Utilities. We look forward to the innovative contributions he will undoubtedly bring to our clients and our team.
- Want to contact Euan to discuss how Total Utilities can help your business with innovative energy and carbon management solutions? Email him at [email protected]
by Jonathan Gardiner | Jul 22, 2024 | Carbon Sustainability, Company News, Energy Attribute Certificates (EAC's), News
Total Utilities is proud to announce its latest venture in the renewable energy market: expanding the sale of unbundled Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) through a partnership with Lodestone Energy.
This collaboration underscores Total Utilities’ commitment to sustainability and its
dedication to providing innovative energy solutions to a broader customer base, both now
and into the future.
RECs authenticate the production and consumption of renewable energy. They enable
businesses and individuals to offset the carbon associated with electricity consumption and support the development of new renewable energy projects, without directly utilising the energy at the source.
Positioning for Growth in REC Market
Already established as a prominent player in the renewable energy sector, Total Utilities is
now strategically positioned to meet the increasing demand for RECs and sustainable energy solutions through its partnership with Lodestone Energy.
Jonathan Gardiner, Managing Director of Total Utilities explains, “We’re excited to partner
with Lodestone to expand and enhance our renewable energy offerings. This partnership
builds upon our existing relationships with partners such as Pioneer Energy, to meet the
evolving needs of our clients.
“By integrating Lodestone into our network of REC partners, we are better equipped to
address the growing demand for sustainable solutions.”
Funding Solar development
Jonathan emphasises how purchasing RECs supplied by Lodestone through Total Utilities will contribute directly to the development of solar energy in New Zealand: “Lodestone Energy recently launched the first grid-scale solar farm in Kaitaia. By purchasing RECs supplied by them, our clients can play a pivotal role in funding further solar developments by Lodestone at that scale, directly contributing to New Zealand’s sustainability efforts.”
Furthermore, the partnership with Lodestone Energy opens up opportunities for Total
Utilities to explore new avenues of renewable energy development and expand its portfolio of sustainable energy solutions.
By leveraging Lodestone’s expertise and resources, Total Utilities aims to enhance its ability to meet the diverse needs of its clients and stay at the forefront of the renewable energy industry.
Making a Meaningful Impact
“For businesses looking to make a meaningful impact on sustainability and support the
growth of renewable energy in New Zealand, Total Utilities’ expanded offerings of RECs
provide a valuable opportunity.”
“By partnering with Total Utilities and purchasing RECs supplied by Lodestone Energy,
businesses can demonstrate their commitment to environmental stewardship and can
directly assist in bringing new renewable generation energy projects into the New Zealand market” Jonathan adds.
- For more information about Total Utilities’ expanded renewable energy offerings
and its partnership with Lodestone Energy, contact us today.
by Chris Hargreaves | Feb 16, 2024 | Company News, News
[New Zealand, 19 Feb 2024] – Total Utilities, a leading force in New Zealand sustainable solutions, urges businesses to take immediate steps towards reducing their carbon footprint as global warming breaches the 1.5°C threshold for an entire year, signalling a crucial moment for carbon action.
According to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, it’s the first time global warming has exceeded 1.5°C across an entire year from February 2023 to January 2024.
World leaders promised in 2015 to try to limit the long-term temperature rise to 1.5°C, which is seen as crucial to help avoid the most damaging impacts.
Jonathan Gardiner, Managing Director of Total Utilities, highlights that businesses can consider this warning as a timely reminder of the importance of addressing their carbon footprint.
“Ignoring your business’s emissions poses real risks not only to the environment, but also to your business in terms of non-compliance with regulations, loss of market trust and reputational damage, reduced competitiveness, and missed opportunities for efficiencies and cost savings,” he explains.
Gardiner notes that businesses often neglect carbon management for a number of reasons including cost constraints, perceived complexity, time limitations, or a lack of reliable tools and expertise. However, addressing emissions is now a strategic necessity.
“Understanding specific emission sources within industries is crucial for developing effective reduction strategies tailored to the unique challenges and opportunities present in the New Zealand business context,” he says.
Total Utilities’ simplified approach
Total Utilities’ carbon management service has been designed with simplicity and speed in mind. The approach incorporates a comprehensive Carbon Inventories Emissions Checklist, which lays out all essential steps for identifying emission sources, gathering and analysing data, calculating emissions, and reporting findings.
This is paired with Total Utilities’ cutting-edge Carbon Insights platform utilising Net0 software to measure, monitor, reduce, and report on carbon emissions effortlessly.
Harnessing the power of Net0’s carbon management platform combined with Total Utilities’ unparalleled expertise in carbon and utility management – the company delivers a revolutionary fast-track carbon management solution.
Bold choices for a greener future
Gardiner reinforces Total Utilities’ commitment to simple, sustainable solutions, stating, “At the heart of our response lies a commitment to providing effortless solutions for businesses. Using our Carbon Insights and Carbon Inventories services, businesses can seamlessly align their supply chain with sustainability goals and actively contribute to a low carbon future.”
“And here’s the thing – we get it. We don’t want the whole carbon measuring thing to slow businesses down. Our approach is all about making it easy for businesses to jump on board without complication or unnecessary fuss.”
“As the world deals with the impacts of climate change, we’re urging businesses to make bold choices. Every step towards cutting carbon is a move toward a greener, more sustainable future.”
To learn more about Total Utilities’ range of carbon reporting, measurement, and reduction tools and services, please visit www.totalutilities.co.nz.
About Total Utilities: Total Utilities is a leading provider of utility management, carbon measurement, and reduction services, offering innovative solutions to help businesses optimise their utility usage, reduce their carbon footprint, and achieve sustainability goals. With a customer-centric approach and a comprehensive range of services, Total Utilities empowers clients to navigate the complexities of carbon management and drive positive change.
About Net0: Net0 is an innovative carbon management platform that enables businesses to measure, reduce, and disclose their carbon emissions with ease. With advanced AI technology and a user-friendly interface, Net0 simplifies carbon tracking and reporting, empowering businesses to accelerate their journey towards a net-zero future.
Media contact:
Jonathan Gardiner,
Managing Director, Total Utilities
E: [email protected]
M: +64 21 265 8379
by Chris Hargreaves | Jul 26, 2023 | Carbon Sustainability, Company News, News
From hazy data to mind-boggling calculations and sprawling spreadsheets – measuring your carbon footprint is a daunting task for many businesses. But fear not! Total Utilities is gearing up to help simplify and accelerate your carbon management journey.
In the coming weeks, we will be making an exciting announcement about how we intend to assist businesses to effortlessly measure, reduce and disclose their carbon emissions.
The carbon conundrum
We know that the task of measuring your carbon footprint can be overwhelming, and it’s easy to become tangled in the complexity of the carbon footprint web.
Total Utilities understands these obstacles and is dedicated to helping businesses overcome them while encouraging wider participation in carbon management programs.
Discover hidden cost saving gains
Carbon measurement is no walk in the park with challenges including lack of standardised methodologies for measurement, supply chain complexities, concerns over data reliability, financial constraints – or simply not knowing where to begin.
Our new carbon management service will help you take control of your environmental impact and responsibilities. Additionally, by viewing your business balance sheet through a carbon lens, we can help you discover hidden efficiency and cost saving gains that you never knew existed!
Take control of your environmental impact
In a world that increasingly demands environmental responsibility, the desire to reduce emissions is strong, but the process of measurement is currently a challenging hurdle.
By leveraging our utility management expertise with advanced AI technology and sophisticated software – we believe we are about to deliver something special to the market that will accelerate progress towards net zero.
Stay tuned and prepare to embark on a new era of carbon reduction success with Total Utilities!
by Chris Hargreaves | Oct 11, 2022 | Company News, News
Total Utilities is proud to announce it has been recertified as a net carbonzero organisation by Toitū Envirocare – showing our continued commitment to taking positive action against climate change.
Our recertification proves that we continue to walk the talk by accurately measuring emissions, reducing greenhouse gases and neutralising our unavoidable emissions.
World leading Toitū standard
The Toitū net net carbonzero programme ensures businesses are accurately measuring gas emissions and putting in place strategies to manage, reduce and offset their impact. Total Utilities is proud to meet the ISO 14064-1:2018 standard.
Toitū Envirocare has a world leading certification programme, with certification requirements meeting and exceeding international standards and best practice.
Good business sense
Total Utilities Director, Chris Hargreaves says, “We at Total Utilities are passionate about business sustainability so the Toitū recertification is particularly pleasing.
“Setting our carbon reduction targets is not just about reducing our environmental impact, it makes good business sense.”
Chirs points out the benefits of net carbonzero certification for businesses, including the reputational advantages of being a good corporate citizen – both to potential customers and other organisations who want to do business with you.
Carbon reduction not only means you gain a moral and reputational advantage, but you can also identify business efficiencies and cost savings as part of the process.
Furthermore, employees that work for sustainable organisations see improvements in staff engagement and retention, and also attract higher calibre employees.
Total Utilities can help you make a plan to reduce emissions and work towards net carbonzero certification. Our services will help you to:
- Understand the scope of your challenge by baselining greenhouse gas emissions.
- Create a credible, actionable roadmap with a multi-year, net zero pathway using science-based methodologies.
- Lock in immediate and long-term gains with our range of services and solutions to deliver your pathway.
Reduce business risk by adhering to today’s environmental regulations and being prepared for future legislation.
Contact us to find out more about our energy management consultancy services.
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by Jonathan Gardiner | Aug 19, 2022 | Carbon Sustainability, Company News, Energy Attribute Certificates (EAC's), News
Total Utilities Management Group is excited to announce our registration on the ‘New Zealand Energy Certificate System (NZECS)’ – enabling our clients to support renewable generation and reduce their reportable emissions.
Administered and developed by BraveTrace, NZECS allows energy consumers to offset their reportable electricity related greenhouse gas emissions and support renewable energy by buying New Zealand Energy Certificates (NZ-ECs) to redeem against their consumption.
What are New Zealand Energy Certificates (NZ-ECs)? NZ-ECs show how and when energy was generated, and from where. This information is referred to as a ‘generation attribute.’ NZ-ECs can be traded and transferred from electricity generators to electricity retailers, who can ultimately sell these certificates to energy consumers. Through the purchase of a certificate, a consumer ‘reserves’ that unit of generation as their own – enabling them to make a clear statement about the type of electricity that they support.
This means that Total Utilities can now act as an independent broker of NZ-ECs and can buy and trade certificates on behalf of our customers to support them to invest in 100% renewable energy.
Certificates can be used to report zero-carbon electricity usage in accredited Greenhouse Gas Reporting Programmes and are a competitively priced alternative to carbon offsets that also offer the potential for greater impact.
By using Total Utilities as your independent broker for NZ-ECs, you can also be assured of straightforward, flexible contract terms – regardless of whether your energy use is big or small.
Fully Transparent Reporting
New Zealand is a relatively late adopter of a system of tradable energy certificates. Certificates create supply chain transparency with the attributes of each certificate outlining energy generation source, age of the generator and whether or not the generator is certified net zero carbon.
Electricity purchased directly from the grid in New Zealand comes from sources which are on average 80% renewable, however, depending on where and when it is purchased, the actual makeup of energy being delivered can vary sharply. This means that up until now, consumers of electricity had no way to link their consumption directly with a renewable generator.
BraveTrace’s NZ Energy Certificate System changes all this…
NZ-ECs prove that purchased energy is directly tied to a 100% renewable energy generator. They also allow energy consumers to report zero related greenhouse gas emissions and thus, to invest in a sustainable future for New Zealand.
NZ-ECs not only provide a fully transparent method of reporting, but also incentivise generators of renewable energy, who can sell their energy certificates on the open market. Total Utilities currently manages around half a billion dollars per year of utility contracts on behalf of our clients and sustainability has become a major strategic objective for many of these businesses.
We are fully committed to assisting our clients move towards 100% renewable energy, helping them in their journey towards net zero emissions.
Total Utilities Managing Director, Jonathan Gardiner, reacts to our registration on NZECS…
“We thrive on energy competition, and our registration as a participant in the New Zealand certificate market allows our customers to get the best of both worlds – full energy market competition, and quick sustainability wins with New Zealand Energy Certificates.
“By choosing to only offer NZ-ECs from suppliers which meet the strict Toitū Envirocare compliance criteria, our clients can report zero-carbon electricity usage in accredited GHG programmes, be part of New Zealand’s renewable energy future and meet carbon reduction targets.
“Electricity is a major cost and driver of emissions for many of our clients, so providing an independent service to negotiate energy supply contracts along with NZ-ECs means our clients can choose to take energy supply from any retailer whilst also meeting their sustainability goals.
“The certificates help create a circular economy as sellers of certificates are required to invest the revenue they earn from certificates in new renewable generation or decarbonisation projects. Purchasers of certificates are investing in a sustainable future for New Zealand.”
“By being amongst the first NZ-based participants to register on Certified Energy’s NZ Energy Certificate System, Total Utilities underlines our commitment to providing customers with the most powerful tools in their journey towards adopting renewable energy sources and moving towards net zero emissions.”
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