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Leading Energy Efficiency Consultancy EECO2 has delivered over £10 million in global energy savings since they began trading just 5 years ago.
The energy savings are displayed on their website at www.eeco2.co.uk . The savings delivered to date amount to an astounding 250,000kWh and 91,000 Co2 tonnes. EECO2 have firmly established their position as a leading consultancy within the pharmaceutical and life sciences sector and work with global giants such as GSK, AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Lilly and Novartis.
Founding Director Rob Wallace said:
“The core expertise & experience within EECO2 is not the usual ‘Consultant’ format as we all come from a design & build background, commercially grounded and totally focused upon the identification & cost effective delivery of identified energy savings. We validate energy savings and are able to demonstrate over £10 million in savings to date.”
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Manufacturers are losing billions of pounds in wasted energy, says Rod Ellsworth of Infor – but that waste can be turned into profit
Driven by economic pressures which preceded the recession, and have continued since, manufacturing industry has been cutting costs back to the bone – a fact which has been partly responsible for the sector’s recovery. But while traditional measures of productivity suggest the sector has exhausted all avenues of inefficiencies, other evidence indicates that most manufacturers are incurring excessive, unnecessary costs to the tune of a staggering £16bn.
As economic conditions seem set to remain tough for some time yet, manufacturers cannot afford to ignore the possibility of untapped profit if they are to maintain a competitive edge and avoid stalling the sector’s recovery.
Untapped savings
The reason this untapped pool of savings exists is because traditional metrics look primarily at productivity as the key variable in driving operational costs down, usually excluding energy usage. Energy is seen as a fixed cost which sits outside of operational overheads, rather than a potential area for inefficiencies. By broadening the parameters within which manufacturers look for savings, research suggests there is plenty of potential to cut waste.
The Energy Event, one of Europe’s leading energy exhibitions and conferences taking place on the 13th-14th September 2011 at the Birmingham N.E.C., has announced that five out of the ‘Big Six’ will be exhibiting at this year’s event, along with the UK’s leading I&C suppliers and brokers,.
For the last 10 years The Energy Event has attracted the leading organisations from the energy industry as sponsors, exhibitors and conference speakers. Sponsored by British Independent Utilities (BIU), a world class systems-based utility consultancy that specialises in large multi-location portfolios, other co- sponsors for this year’s event include: E.ON, powerPerfector, Haven Power and UX Energy Services. Once again, the event will partner with the most recognised organisations, reflecting the wide spectrum of industries that are relevant to the event. These include organisations such as EIC, the Energy Services & Technology Association (ESTA), the Major Energy Users’ Council (MEUC), BCIA, CIBSE, WTL, Waterwise and the Energy Institute.
The Carbon Trust has recently indicated that some of the UK’s largest businesses are underestimating the returns that can be made in energy efficiency, even as much as half. This missed opportunity is thought to be wasting such businesses in the region of £1.6 billion per year and could easily be avoided by upgraded systems e.g. for heating and lighting and even as simple as staff training.
This research was announced through the Carbon Trust Advisory Paper published in the name of ‘The Business of Energy Efficiency’.
The paper suggests that energy efficiency projects produce a return in the region of 48% and yet finance directors only estimate it to be in the region of 20%, a huge underestimate and on average the projects provide their return within three years.
Wardle High School in Rochdale is reaping the benefits after splashing out on the latest energy management equipment from t-mac Technologies Ltd.
The energy management specialists installed sub-metering and energy analysis software to enable the school to monitor the energy consumed by its swimming and hydrotherapy pools, and to identify the impact of using pool covers on its energy costs.
t-mac is providing energy management software to monitor the electricity, gas and water used by the pools. So far it has shown that by using covers the school has reduced the energy consumption of its pools by approximately 25 per cent with estimated savings of around £10,000.
Lisa Wilkinson, business development director for t-mac Technologies, said: “Sub-metering helps organisations to manage their energy consumption as it allows users to gain information on energy costs without delay. A key benefit of sub-metering is being able to identify day and night energy profiles for selected activity areas and highlight potential saving opportunities.”
Government proposals unveiled last week (June 30) to simplify the Carbon Reduction Commitment energy efficiency scheme are ‘a move in the right direction’, according to the Environmental Services Association.
But, the trade body for the waste sector said it still had “outstanding concerns” over the “disproportionate” impact that the proposed scheme, which is known as the CRC and will involve businesses buying allowances to cover their carbon emissions, could have on recycling facilities.
Under the CRC, from April 2012 businesses and organisations over a certain size will be expected to purchase allowances from the government to cover their carbon emissions, as well as measuring and reporting their carbon emissions. The initiative aims to reduce carbon emissions from non-energy intensive sectors of industry.
The plans announced by climate change minister Greg Barker aim to reduce the administrative burden of the scheme on businesses, allow greater flexibility for businesses on how they take part and reduce the overlap between the CRCF and other government climate change policies.
Notably, they reduce the number of fuels that businesses must report on emissions from, down from 29 to just four – electricity, gas, kerosene and diesel for heating.
This move in particular was welcomed by the Environmental Services Association, whose director of policy, Matthew Farrow said it would make it easier for obligated waste businesses to administer the CRC.
“ESA is pleased that the Government is at least trying to listen to industry and address some of its concerns,” he told letsrecycle.com. “The announcement on simplification is a move in the right direction, and the focus on a core range of fuels will make the scheme easier to administer.”
t-mac Technologies Ltd. has launched its new virtual product enabling businesses with existing third party equipment and systems to benefit from t-mac software.
The virtual t-mac software works independently with any hardware enabling businesses to run t-mac’s innovative software suite with existing systems for the first time.