{"id":1045,"date":"2005-04-12T18:39:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-12T18:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/04\/12\/energy-management-as-a-competitiveness-issue\/"},"modified":"2005-04-12T18:39:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-12T18:39:00","slug":"energy-management-as-a-competitiveness-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/energy-management-as-a-competitiveness-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy Management as a Competitiveness Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"
First, apologies for being away yesterday (and most of today, for that matter) — doing the maddening end-of-the-semester hustle to catch up on things… Joel Makower discusses<\/a> the new GreenBiz.com paper “Energy Management and Shareholder Value.”<\/a> I haven’t had a chance to read the full paper, but Joel’s blog overview points to some exciting conclusions, particularly that, through a convergence of regulation, stockholder activism and wildly volatile energy prices, “strategic energy management isn\u2019t just a nice thing — it\u2019s a competitiveness issue.” Investors are increasingly looking at energy management as an benchmark for overall management effectiveness and company value. Or, for the “free-market” crowd: a company that wants to continue to attract investors has take more of a double-bottom line approach, because that’s what the market is demanding…<\/p>\n Technorati tags: energy<\/a>, business<\/a><\/p>\n