ista Blog

27.09.2021 -

Sustainability, Company

Momentum for ambitious CO2 targets: ista concludes second ESG-linked financing of some 450 million euros

Essen, 27.09.2021. The energy service provider ista is diversifying its financing structure. As part of this, the company is, for the first time, issuing an ESG-linked Schuldschein in the amount of some 450 million euros. The same rule applies again in this round of financing: it is linked to the company’s ambitious sustainability targets. The Schuldschein was concluded with international and local investors.

01.06.2021 -

Sustainability, Company, Digitization

New CEO Hagen Lessing intends to cut ista's CO2 emissions to zero by 2030

Essen, 1 June 2021. The new ista CEO Hagen Lessing is making climate protection the focus of the corporate strategy: From today on, we will already be operating carbon-neutral, and within the next 10 years we will even cut our CO 2 emissions to zero , Lessing announced as he took up his new office. Lessing is taking over the running of the company from Thomas Zinnöcker, who retired on 31 May 2021.

18.03.2021 -

Innovation, Products, Digitization

ista's digital power tool MinuteView helps industrial and commercial customers to cut their energy consumption and improve their carbon footprint

Essen, 18.03.2021. With its digital power tool MinuteView , the energy service provider ista is expanding its offering for industrial and commercial customers. Using the all-in-one energy management solution means that up to 15% of the energy costs of a company or a site can be saved, therefore considerably improving the carbon footprint.

26.08.2020 -

Innovation, Sustainability

innovation@ista: waste container with lock for individual billing

Individual billing is standard for heating costs; for residual waste it's (still) the exception. An innovative pilot project in Luxembourg could change that: the residual waste container with locking mechanism for apartment buildings halves the amount of non-recyclable waste. ista has contributed its experience in recording consumption.

22.04.2020 -

Billing

Heat tariffs are key to community heating schemes

Community heating schemes have been earmarked as a major force in the battle to lower the UK’s carbon footprint, but are the heat tariffs delivering value for money?

09.04.2020 -

News

How the Passivhaus concept can deliver sustainable housing

Heard of the Passivhaus concept? Discover why more and more architects and designers are using its techniques to build the sustainable housing of the future. Passivhaus recently hit the housing headlines when Goldsmith Street in Norwich was named the 2019 winner of the prestigious Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Stirling Prize. When crowning the development as the best new building in the UK, RIBA judges said it “meets rigorous Passivhaus environmental standards”.

01.04.2020 -

Billing

Energy bills: How Heat Cost Allocators are creating a fairer future

Heat cost allocators are one example of how the energy industry is turning to digital technology to eliminate waste while offering consumers transparency and lower energy bills.

27.03.2020 -

News

Wood-burners: axe to fall on burning wet wood and coal as part of clean air strategyv

The Government’s Clean Air Strategy is putting the heat on owners of domestic wood-burners to use alternatives to wet wood and coal.

13.03.2020 -

How renewable energy is decarbonising the UK

The UK’s rapid adoption of renewable energy technology has driven the fastest decarbonisation in the world, according to new research.

25.02.2020 -

News

How can the UK create low-carbon commercial property?

The quest for a low-carbon future is reaching every corner of the UK, and the attention has recently turned to commercial property. On January 15, 2020, the UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) published a set of new energy performance targets for commercial property that are striving to achieve net-zero carbon emissions in their business operations.