Charities and non-profit organisations can benefit from using SMEasure.org.uk; a free to use energy monitoring resource provided by the University of Oxford.

OXFORD, ENGLAND, August 21, 2010 (Press-News.org) Charities have a long established role on taking responsibility for the environment. As there are more than 190,000 registered charities in England and Wales, there is real potential for even the smallest green initiative adopted by some, or all, of these charities to have a positive environmental impact. SMEasure can support the charities who want to commit themselves to reduce their carbon footprint and want to reduce energy-related costs at no cost t the charity.

SMEasure.org.uk is a free to use energy monitoring website from the University of Oxford that requires no equipment or kit. It can provide a host of valuable analysis by benchmarking the organisation's energy consumption from adding weekly meter readings against typical use and degree-day data to provide valuable insight to the charitable organisation on possible wastage and leakage, for example, so corrective measures can be implemented.

Yassen Roussev from The Cyrenians uses SMEasure and says of the tool: 'SMEasure has allowed The Cyrenians homeless charity to monitor the performance of its building stock and evaluate the effectiveness of energy efficiency projects. There has been a lack of specialised tools freely available to SME's to evaluate energy usage and correlate that with local degree-day data.' Yassen continued, 'The creation of SMEasure to fill exactly this gap is really good news for the Energy or Estate Manager on a shoestring.'

The site was born from the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford with an aim to attract organisation's anonymised data to continue their research into energy consumption by building type so not only can charitable organisations benefit from using the website - the research team can continue their research into a lower carbon future.

Any organisation can use the website; however SMEasure.org.uk would in particular like to attract charities and non-profit making organisations to benefit with an aim for the monitoring organisation to cut energy consumption and potentially cut energy bills to save on the charity's running costs.

SMEasure is a free energy monitoring calculator, especially designed for small and medium businesses. For further information please contact Muriel Bonjean on muriel.bonjean@ouce.ox.ac.uk or 01865 285 540 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              01865 285 540      end_of_the_skype_highlighting