If You Don’t Understand Your Energy Risk …

… those hard-earned “savings” could disappear overnight if:

  • oil surpasses $100 a barrel again
    (which many economists and futurists think it will do by the end of the year)
  • carbon taxes are imposed
    (which are unlikely to be postponed much further)
  • energy grids hit capacity
    (and the organization is forced to get its own power plants up and running quickly)

And if that isn’t scary enough, there’s a 69% chance that your organization does not understand it’s energy risk, according to a recent survey by Treasury and Risk (as quoted in a recent Technology Review article on Navigating Your Energy Risk). It’s about time your organization calculates its carbon footprint. Unless the risk is known, the organization will be unable to mitigate it when energy prices rise rapidly or carbon taxes are introduced in one of its locales of operation.