Sustainability management concept for municipal energy management

Our client in the energy industry has already begun to position sustainability as a priority in various areas of the company and to implement individual measures. However, a company-wide understanding of sustainability and structured management were lacking. In addition, regulatory requirements and city regulations are becoming more stringent. The company therefore wants to develop a strategic and communicative approach to sustainability and visibly anchor integrative sustainability management within the group.

Our approach

We developed the concept together with the client in six workshops, both on-site and digitally.

• First, we analysed the status quo and identified the resulting gaps.
• We then reorganised the key topics and summarised them in fields of action for the strategic orientation.
• We formulated goals and measures, recorded them in fact sheets, revised or redeveloped them, and defined clear responsibilities.

We also drafted a proposal for the future organisational structure of sustainability management and created initial sample processes that illustrate the procedures for implementing sustainability activities.

• In doing so, we took the IT infrastructure into account and made recommendations on how ESG data management can support sustainability management as a single point of truth, also with regard to regulatory requirements.
• A key focus of the project was the development of an internal understanding of the roles of the sustainability team within the group structures.

The result

The client received a comprehensive concept for further processing and implementation of sustainability management, as well as for presentation to the management.

The results range from clear strategic building blocks (areas of action, organisational structure) to enabling fact sheets for further processing (profiles, processes) and recommendations for independent implementation.

Last update: 22.05.2025