Business

Research and data

Our research and data services range from testing your new products to researching consumer attitudes towards new and smart energy efficient technologies.

For low carbon projects to be a success, it’s vital to have a clear idea of both the challenge ahead and how you’re doing once it’s underway. Our team of experts provide clients with new insights and ideas through primary and secondary research, data analysis, energy modelling and evaluation.

Explore our resources and advice pages to find out how we could help your business. Our expertise includes:

research that gives new insights into communicating with your customers and clients
data analysis and modelling to give you the insights and evidence you need to develop your new energy-related products or services
energy modelling to model and calculate the savings and impacts of certain energy efficient measures on particular house types
Ongoing monitoring and evaluation of the impact of carbon reduction programmes, installations and market overviews to help monitor change and add value to your services

Our sustainability sector expertise has helped governments, local authorities and commercial businesses across Great Britain understand key energy efficiency issues and prepare future strategy and programmes to meet the net zero challenge and fuel poverty reduction.

Energy modelling consultancy

We provide ongoing monitoring and evaluation of the impact of programmes, installation of measures, market overviews or other strategies such as approaches to tackling fuel poverty.

We can also model bespoke savings or the impacts of installing certain energy efficiency measures on particular house types. Our modelling is accurate and based on the hard data of various housing characteristics and previous modelling experience.

Field trials

Our field trial service can evaluate your product’s performance in-situ and get customer experience feedback.

As part of our research and innovation expertise, we can test and evaluate the performance of your new products out in the real world, gathering consumer attitudes towards the technology.

Evaluation

We specialise in evaluating your consumer and business initiatives, covering a wide range of environmental activities such as energy efficiency, renewable technologies, water, waste and transport.