Helping businesses grow sustainably

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Our Values


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Innovation

We embrace creative thinking and testing out new approaches that deliver effective solutions. The climate crisis is a complex problem, so the solution won’t be simple. 

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Sustainability

We practice what we preach. We strive to incorporate the most impactful sustainable working practices into all our operations and regularly review our performance against defined ESG criteria. 

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Excellence

We strive for excellence for our clients and within our team. We pride ourselves on delivering a premium service that fuses sustainability and growth.

Our Story


Our mission is to help businesses grow sustainably. We believe in empowering businesses and giving them the tools to identify opportunities and implement impactful actions to become more sustainable. 

Innovative Energy Consultants is a bit of a mouthful – so we shorten it to IEC!

IEC’s sustainability philosophy has three pillars: environmental, social and economic. We believe that great businesses have positive impacts on the environment and their communities, which contribute to sustainable profits and strong economic growth.  

Our proprietary methodology for creating Carbon Footprints and Sustainability Audits help businesses understand where they are on their sustainability journeys. We then work with businesses to co-create Sustainability Strategies and Action Plans that define their unique sustainability goals and the steps that need to be taken to achieve these. 

IEC can help your businesses implement practical steps to become more sustainable, from Clean Energy Procurement, to Technology Assessments and Sustainability Training

We’ll be with you on every step of your business’ sustainability journey, helping you stay on track and keeping you up to date with the latest Clean Tech innovations, regulatory requirements and funding opportunities. 

Net Zero Strategies are an increasingly common requirement from both public and private sector procurement, investors and banks. IEC can work with your business to help you Communicate your sustainability and carbon strategies and progress to customers, investors, financiers and staff members. 

Case Studies


  • Saving Lives Sustainably: A Carbon Neutral Project
    We are so proud to have supported and empowered Airway Medical to run a Carbon Neutral Project, helping them achieve their mission of saving lives sustainably. A Carbon Neutral Project is one where the carbon emissions resulting from the project are balanced by carbon being absorbed from the atmosphere in a carbon sink. A carbon sink is anything that absorbs more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than it releases, for example, a forest or an ocean. Airway Medical is a Bristol-based start-up on a mission to save lives sustainably by bringing a new, portable airway suction device to the market. In 2023,…
  • Sustainability at the Strawberry Line Café and Cycle Line!
    The Strawberry Line Café and Cycle Line is a Community Interest Company dedicated to creating meaningful employment opportunities for adults with learning disabilities. The Café is based in Yatton and has been serving the community since 2010. In 2016, the Strawberry Line launched a cycle hire business offering traditional and adaptive bikes to make the gorgeous 9 mile Strawberry Line Cycle Route accessible to the whole community.  As part of their sustainability journey, the Strawberry Line Café and Cycle Hire asked Innovative Energy Consultants, through our partnership with Future Leap, to perform a sustainability audit of their operations and an analysis of their carbon…
  • IEC Carbon Footprint
    Great news – we have developed a Carbon Footprint tool to speed up our bespoke in house Carbon Footprinting calculations!  A Carbon Footprint measures the total amount of greenhouse gasses emitted by a business and breaks them down into scope 1,2 and 3 emissions. To find out more about the different scopes read our blog post.  To practice what we preach – sustainable growth – we tried out our new tool on ourselves and we’re going to remeasure our Carbon Footprint annually so we can track our emissions as we continue to grow.  Below is a breakdown of IEC’s Carbon Footprint for…
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