Initiatives towards the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals)

Outline of the SDGs

Our views on the Sustainable Development Goals

The ENECHANGE Group is actively working towards achieving the SDGs as a platform that accelerates the digital transformation (DX) of the 4 Ds of energy in order to create the sustainable energy future we need to have by 2030, the future called for by the SDGs.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the international goals for the period up to 2030, as stated in the "2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development" adopted at the United Nations Summit in September 2015.

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ENECHANGE Group Initiatives

The ENECHANGE Group is incorporating DX technology in the energy field as an energy platform company in order to change the world so that people around the world can use energy in a way more suited to individual lifestyles and ideas, and to create a sustainable energy future by 2030. To that end, we have set the 4 Ds of energy^※ and incorporated them into our business fields from our belief in the importance of promoting an energy revolution. The ENECHANGE Group is actively working to achieve the following six SDGs through our energy services.

*The 4 Ds of energy are Deregulation, Digitalization, Decarbonization, and Decentralization

The 4 Ds of energy and initiatives towards the SDGs in our businesses

Deregulation

Electricity/gas switching platform for households

Electricity/gas switching platform for corporations

Improving quality of life and corporate value through freely switching energies

Digitalization

EMAP (Digital Marketing Support SaaS)

SMAP (Smart Meter Data Utilization SaaS)

Achieving a society that uses energy data to supply energy stably

Decarbonization

Decentralization

Japan Energy Fund
(Renewable Energy Power Plant Analysis and Operation Management Services)

Achieving a carbon-free society and a society that utilises energy big data

Corporate

Changing Energy For A Better World

GOALThe goals ENECHANGE has set

An energy future created through the provision of energy platforms ENECHANGE Technology for DEREGULATION

With the full deregulation of the energy retail industry in April 2016, an energy market worth about 20 trillion yen in Japan alone was opened up, and each of us was now able to freely select our electricity and gas utilities. The ENECHANGE Group is creating an environment that will deliver the optimal energy to all people through support that changes our world into one where we can use energy with greater peace of mind. This is being done through services like “enechange”, our electricity/gas charges comparison website for households, Omakase Switch, our power pricing plan proposal service, and Enechange Biz, our switching support site for companies.

	Target businesses

	Targets ? The SDGs consist of 17 Goals and 169 Targets. All Goals and Targets can be found here.	Sample initiatives
7.1	Proportion of population with access to electricity See Metadata	We offer a service to choose where to buy your energy reliably and more simply through “enechange”, our electricity/gas charges comparison website.
13.3	Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries	We provide information on energy through owned media in a fair, balanced, and easy to understand way.
17.7	Promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on favourable terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed	We are working on getting to an environment where safer, more reliable energy can be supplied stably while actively debating electrical power system reform with governments, public bodies, and related groups.

The future of energy created through energy data ENECHANGE Technology for DIGITALIZATION

Smart meters, digital electricity meters, are becoming more popular around the world. There are 2 billion smart meters around the world, creating power data 96 billion times each day. We are working to improve the efficiency of energy businesses and support the stable supply of energy through the provision of services that use energy technology, including SMAP, a SaaS-service that provides analysis and predictions from a range of perspectives for energy companies using this massive amount of energy big data, and EMAP, another SaaS service that supports digital marketing aimed at energy businesses based around the knowledge, information, and technology assets we have gained through the operation of “enechange”, our electricity/gas switching platform.

	Target businesses

	Targets ? The SDGs consist of 17 Goals and 169 Targets. All Goals and Targets can be found here.	Sample initiatives
7.3	By 2030, double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency.	We are working on improving energy efficiency by providing services based on the analysis of power data to retailers.
9.4	By 2030, upgrade infrastructure and retrofit industries to make them sustainable, with increased resource-use efficiency and greater adoption of clean and environmentally sound technologies and industrial processes, with all countries taking action in accordance with their respective capabilities	We are constructing the technology platform that will be necessary to make renewable energy our main source of power by actively engaging in new technologies such as demand-response that utilise smart meter data.

Initiatives for decentralization and decarbonization ENECHANGE Technology for DECARBONIZATION & DECENTRALIZATION

The future of energy a century from now—that is the future we will achieve beautifully through the 4 Ds of energy. We at the ENECHANGE Group believe business investment and technology support are key initiatives to achieve this future on a global scale. With the Japan Energy Fund, an energy fund specialised in overseas decarbonization, we aim to achieve a carbon-free society by increasing the value of renewable energy power plants currently operating in emerging nations in particular through improvements to profitability by utilising our company’s power data analysis technology.

	Target businesses

	Targets ? The SDGs consist of 17 Goals and 169 Targets. All Goals and Targets can be found here.	Sample initiatives
7.2	By 2030, increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix	We are working to achieve a carbon-free society through investing in energy and infrastructure.
9.1	Develop quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure, including regional and transborder infrastructure, to support economic development and human well-being, with a focus on affordable and equitable access for all	We support the development of infrastructure through renewable energy in the Middle East to achieve economic development through cheap electricity.
10.b	Encourage official development assistance and financial flows, including foreign direct investment, to States where the need is greatest, in particular least developed countries, African countries, small island developing States and landlocked developing countries, in accordance with their national plans and programmes	We support the development of infrastructure through renewable energy in the Middle East to achieve economic development through cheap electricity.
13.a	Implement the commitment undertaken by developed-country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually by 2020 from all sources to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as possible	We support the development of infrastructure through renewable energy in the Middle East to achieve economic development through cheap electricity.
17.16	Enhance the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in all countries, in particular developing countries	We will tackle difficult issues by working with international organizations and companies in the target regions to bring our expertise together, based on the shared goal of achieving the SDGs.

Initiatives as a corporation Changing Energy For a Better World

The people in the ENECHANGE Group are from around the world, with different backgrounds and countries of origin, but with the same mission of “Changing Energy For a Better World”, each of us working from our bases in Japan, Europe, and the Middle East. By continuing to provide employment opportunities to all, regardless of race, sex, age, or religion, and by providing employment support and the necessary training for employees at each base, we aim to strengthen the abilities and knowledge and improve the social standing of everyone involved.

	Target businesses

	Targets ? The SDGs consist of 17 Goals and 169 Targets. All Goals and Targets can be found here.	Sample initiatives
8.2	Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high-value added and labour-intensive sectors	Our employees, who are mainly engineers, are actively working on innovations and improvements to technology by drawing on energy big data.
10.2	By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status	The ENECHANGE Group, with bases in Japan, Europe, and the Middle East, is working to create an environment where a diverse range of people can make the most use of their abilities, from hiring to after joining the company.