THE NEMEX EXPERIENCE

We had a great week at NEMEX, SustainabilityLive, 24 – 26 May. 

There were an amazing 124 ideas contributed to the Best Ideas exchange and there was a definite buzz being generated in our little corner - a big thank you to everyone!  

Best Ideas Exchange – Result
We had some great ideas, many of which sparked some interesting discussions!  As you can imagine it wasn’t easy choosing the ‘best’ idea, but we do have an overall winner: 

‘Make the lowest energy option the most attractive choice:  In Sweden, a trial has incentivised people to use the stairs instead of escalators by making the stairs change colour and make sounds as you walk’.

The simplicity of the underlying idea  of ‘making the lowest energy option the most attractive choice’ is the reason why the team chosen this as the Champagne idea.  We felt that all too often it is natural for people to focus on just the individual system or piece of kit, when looking to save energy and that often you don’t see the bigger picture and all the possibilities that go with it.

Have a look at this video showing the Swedish trial on this Youtube.com link, thanks to Volkswagen’s Thefunnytheory.com . I think you will enjoy it!

Feedback
For a show that predominantly was all about technology, over 60% of all the ideas were about people and behaviours – which means more and more people are getting it!

  • For those who contributed, you should have a received an email giving you access to all the ideas received.  If you havent, please let us know.
  • Otherwise, there’s still time. By popular demand, we are continuing to run the ideas exchange – so if you want to take part, and get access to all the ideas received so far, please email your best Big Green Idea through to us.

Marketing energy efficiency, behavioural change - our seminar session
Here’s another indicator of the interest in behaviour change and people driven energy management – I was very pleased to see every seat taken in the seminar room before our seminar session was due to start.  It was standing room at the back only!  And it gave us a great platform to tell more people about our new energy leadership model.

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