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Cosford sets sights
on smaller bills
RAFMuseumCosford inShropshire
is looking forward toanannual
reduction inenergy costsof
£25,000after installinganenergy
management system fromVickers
Energy tooptimiseheating in twoof
the threehangarsused tohouse the
museum’s collectionof 70aircraft.
The new contract follows the
successful implementationof a
Vickers Energymanagement system
to regulate the heating in its largest
hangar,whichhas already enabled the
Museum to reduce gas consumption
by 28%, leading to savings of £14,000
per annum. Implementing an energy
management system in the other two
hangars is expected to reduce annual
heating bills by an additional £9,500.
RAFMuseumCosford,which
attracts 300,000 visitors every year,
boasts theworld’s oldest Spitfire and a
LincolnBomber.
Ciscohelps cut energy
costs byone third
Following its acquisitionof JouleX
software,Ciscohas extended its
EnergyWise suite tomeasureand
control not just theenergyuseof
anenterprise’s ITnetwork, but all
connecteddevices across distributed
officeanddata centreenvironments.
Cisco EnergyWise Suite helps
customers reduce energy costs by
an average of 35% bymonitoring,
measuring andmanaging the energy use
of all network-connected devices and
systems regardless of vendor or device
type, including switches and routers,
servers, access points, IP phones, laptops,
monitors and evenATMmachines.
Gartner claims that IT energy use
accounts for 25-80%of enterprise
energy consumption.
Details of the new products and
services can be found at
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Investecfirst toachievenew
workplace standard
InvestecWealthand InvestmentManagement (IWIN) has
become thefirst recipient of the LowCarbonWorkplace
Standardafter reducing carbonemissions by33% (per
person) at itsoffices inGuildford, a160-year-old former
printingpress.
The LowCarbonWorkplace conceptwas developed by the
CarbonTrust to break the ‘circle of inertia’ that it believes has
preventedmany cost-effectiveCO2 reductionopportunities
innon-domestic buildings from being realised.
CarbonTrust claims that emissions fromnon-domestic
buildings have remained roughly constant over the past two
decades despite the billions of pounds in energy savings on
offer. Barriers to savings includemisaligned incentives (the
landlord-tenant divide), a lack of knowledge and capability
gapswithin the supply chain.
The LowCarbonWorkplace aims to break the inertia by
encouraging funders, developers, landlords andoccupiers
to collaborate to ensure that buildings are designed, built
andoperated tomaximise energy savings. Energy efficiency
performance ismonitoredover a two-year period before the
awarding of the LowCarbonWorkplace Standard.
Energyuse reporting to
bemandatory for ten
times asmanyfirms
More than7,000UKbusinesses
should start preparing for new rules
onenergyuse reporting contained
in the EnergySavingsOpportunity
Scheme (ESOS), full detailsof
whicharedue tobeannounced in
June,warns global supply chain risk
managementfirmAchilles.
TheUK’s response to a new energy
efficiency directive from the European
Union, ESOS requires any companywith
more than250 employees, a turnover
ofmore than£41.5millionor an annual
balance sheet total ofmore than£35
million to produce detailed reports on
their energy use or be fined.
The EuropeanUnion’s Energy
EfficiencyDirective came into force
inDecember 2012. Itwas agreed that
businesses affectedwouldhave to carry
out energy auditswithin three years –
with a deadline of December 2015.
Public sector organisations are
exempt because theywill have to
complywith separate government
procurement rules that require them
to ensure that at least 3%of their
floor areas are renovated each year to
meetminimum energy performance
requirements.
Achilles runs theCertified Emissions
Measurement andReduction Scheme
(CEMARS) used by hundreds of
companies tomeasure their energy use
and emissions and tohelp themmeet
ISO accreditations.
Energygrowth to slow
Global energy consumption is
expected to riseby41%between
2012and2035, according to
BP EnergyOutlook2035.This
compares toan increaseof 55%
in the last 23years.Almost all
thegrowth indemand (95%) is
expected to come fromemerging
economies,withenergyuse in
theadvancedeconomiesofNorth
America, EuropeandAsiagrowing
very slowlyand starting todecline
in the later yearsof the forecast
period.Oil,natural gas and coal
areeachexpected tomakeup
26-27%of the totalmixby2035,
with the remaining20% coming
fromnuclear,hydroelectricityand
renewables.
Scottishbusinessesurged to
take thepledge
Scottishbusinesses arebeingencouraged tomakea
Resource EfficiencyPledge so that they can reap their
shareof anestimated£2.9bnworthof savings fromusing
energy,water and rawmaterialsmoreefficiently.
The scheme being delivered byZeroWaste Scotlandon
behalf of the ScottishGovernment asks businesses to select
three to six resource efficiencymeasures to be completed
over the course of 12months.
The Resource Efficiency Pledge is officially backed by the
Glasgow2014CommonwealthGames,whose organising
committeewill promote it toGames’ venues and suppliers
and to the Scottish events sector.
TheGames’ largest precinct venue, the SCCC, is one of
more than70 businesses tohavemade a pledge, in its case to
improve recycling rates and energy efficiency.
left to right: Environment SecretaryRichard Lochhead,Alan
Cuggy of SECC, IainGulland, Director of ZeroWaste Scotland
andGarethTalbot of Glasgow2014.
