New energy model leads worldwide charge to reduce carbon footprints

Tracy O’Rourke, founder, Vivid Edge Pic: Nick Bradshaw

Green entrepreneur Tracy O’Rourke is pioneering a new “energy efficiency as a service” model aimed at encouraging large-scale energy users in the public and private sectors worldwide to cut their carbon footprint.

Backed by a European energy efficiency fund with an initial €30 million project funding facility, O’Rourke’s start-up Vivid Edge provides the capital needed for energy efficiency projects.

This funding can be used for the building upgrades and new equipment needed to ...