Competition

What’s in it for us?

  1. Everyone is a winner! By the end of the one-year competition, every participant will have had the chance to significantly reduce their energy consumption, their CO2 emissions, and their energy bill.  The participants in the first round saved 7% of their combined total energy use.
  2. At a Prize Gala in Brussels you will be awarded for the highest percentage of energy saved EU wide and nationally and the best in-house employee motivation campaign.

Poster at T-Com

Poster at Dresdner Bank
In-house campaign posters of
T-Com (top) and Dresdner Bank
(bottom, both from Germany)
for the 2004/2005 Energy Trophy
competition.

And finally, in addition to the opportunities to economise and win a prize, you will

  1. strengthen the corporate identification and the motivation of your staff, through an in-house campaign and their active involvement in the common goal of saving energy (and winning the competition, of course).
  2. enhance your organisation’s public image through extensive media coverage in national press, specialized publications, newsletters, radio and TV features, etc. PR work is provided by the national-co-ordinators in your country and EU-wide.
  3. benefit from tools such as posters, checklists, training modules posted on the www.energytrophy.org and the www.energyoffice.org websites, and from an exchange of experience between participants.
  4. benefit from ongoing advice and support throughout the competition by your national co-ordinators.
  5. have the opportunity to acquire a WEB’log remote device for monitoring your energy data and transmitting it automatically for competition purposes.

How will the competition be run?

The Energy Trophy + will involve approximately 350-450 participants; about 15-30 from each country, who will be recruited from May 2007 to take part in the competition. The competition will be launched in September 2007 and will last for 12 months, with the participants submitting energy data at least every month. The data will then be collated and evaluated, with prizes given to the participants that are found to have saved the most, and a large press campaign detailing the success of the competition. The prizes will be awarded at a prize gala in Brussels. A detailed evaluation of the competition will be undertaken and the results published in a report and on the internet.

What will the project achieve?

Among the results of the project are, first and foremost, energy savings, cost savings and a reduction in CO2 emissions across Europe due to the implementation of a multitude of energy saving measures by the participating organisations. In addition, there will be an established and tested framework for launching the second, third, fourth, etc European Energy Trophy. The Energy Trophy will raise substantial publicity for the participating organisations, the project partners, the project sponsors through the various media campaigns planned for the Energy Trophy.