Manchester United football club, which topped the list last year, had a poor season and plummeted to 488th place on the table. Businesses participating in the CRC Energy Efficiency scheme have reduced their year-on-year emissions by 7.63% in the period 2011-12, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) revealed on Tuesday. The drop, which amounts to a reduction in 4.64 million tonnes (Mt)... 

The following opinion is presented by David Palmer-Stevens, SI Manager for EMEA at Panduit, a manufacturer of physical infrastructure solutions that support power, communications, computing, control and security systems.  At the end of last year, The Green Grid announced that the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric, which measures how efficiently a data centre uses its power, was set to become... 

Pascal Mittermaier, head of sustainability for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Lend Lease Energy Demand talks to Pascal Mittermaier, head of sustainability for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Lend Lease, the company that built and now manages the Bluewater shopping centre. We reported recently that you’re looking to cut the Bluewater energy bill by half.  Can you explain what prompted that target? Like... 

“As businesses look to reduce their energy consumption, the old adage” you can’t manage what you can’t measure” still rings true.” Introduction Smart Meters are electrical meters that records consumption of your businesses’ electricity, gas and water. Smart meters are high tech equipment that unlike existing meters, that record the total utility consumption, they send instant,... 

Mitchell and Butlers: “Leading operator of restaurants and pubs in the UK” Long hours of employee overtime should not be encouraged as it has both a detrimental effect on both employee well-being and company energy use, according to an energy manager at one of the UK’s biggest managed pub companies. Last month E.ON-published data showed that three quarters of employees at small to medium... 

Sainsbury’s is aiming to save 59% on lighting costs at its new Leek supermarket with the installation of an LED lighting system which it hopes will cut its electricity demand for lighting at the store by 317,900kWh per annum. The supermarket giant has installed the lights as part of a grand plan to reduce its “absolute operational” carbon emissions by 30% by 2020. GE’s Lumination Linear... 

Anthony Ainsworth, E.ON Employee overtime may actually be a drain on business’ resources, according to a new survey from energy company E.ON. The survey found that around three quarters of employees at small to medium sized businesses are clocking an additional 1.9 hours a day on average, with a quarter admitting that most or all of the lights are kept on when they are the last person in the office. Responsibility... 

As every prudent French businessman knows, there are some basic rules of commerce that must be applied at all times. One must make time to meet and eat lunch with key customers, one must embrace les rosbifs when the British do make an effort to speak French… and most of all, one must “faire des économies” wherever possible and save business expenditure to maximise profits at all times. When...