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Energy awareness in real-time with MeasureMyEnergy
Electrical supplies company Rexel has launched MeasureMyEnergy, a monitoring tool designed to measure the energy efficiency of a home, office or retail environment. With a supporting web-based information portal, MeasureMyEnergy claims to be able to help reduce utility bills and carbon footprints with “real-time” data to show energy consumption as it is used. Daily, weekly and monthly historical...
UK Energy Efficiency Policy – a status report
Steven Fawkes In March 2011, a small group of advisers including Steven Fawkes of the Energy Managers Association (EMA) and Graham Meeks of the Combined Heat and Power Association were asked by Greg Barker, Minister of State at DECC, to propose five priority actions to promote energy efficiency. Two years later, Steven Fawkes looks at how far we have come in implementing these actions. After nearly...
EMA: CRC “unnecessary burden” on energy managers
The Energy Managers Association (EMA) has gone on the record to state that the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRC EES), the government’s energy efficiency scheme for large UK companies, needs to be phased out. “The EMA is opposed to the CRC EES in its current format and believes that the merits of the [performance] league tables have been lost,” Steve Wright, chairman...
Box cloud collaboration technologies facilitate energy management at Schneider Electric
The virtualised and hosted model of service-based IT otherwise more popularly known as cloud computing has started to evidence efficiencies at deeper infrastructural levels in energy-specific installations. Subscribing to enterprise-level virtualisation services from current ‘darlings of the cloud space’ Box… is Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management with operations in more...
npower urges businesses to “take control” of energy use
Energy supplier npower is urging UK businesses to take control of their energy use in 2013, after finding that around four fifths of medium sized businesses have no energy strategy in place. Research carried out by npower – one of the UK’s “Big Six” energy suppliers – found that just 21% of medium-sized businesses have an energy strategy, despite the average annual energy bill topping £180,000....
MPs issue warning on consumer-funded nuclear subsidies
Tim Yeo – “Long-term price guarantees for new nuclear power stations need to deliver value for money to consumers” The government’s efforts to deliver much of the UK’s electricity from newbuild nuclear power stations could end up pushing up consumer energy bills much more than originally anticipated, MPs have warned. In a report released last week, MPs sitting on the Select Committee...
NHS undergoes multi-million pound energy healthcheck
NHS: a well known brand undergoing its own healthcheck The National Health Service (NHS) is hoping to cut its multi-million pound energy bill to the tune of £12.5 million every year, with the launch of a new £50 million energy innovation fund. The Department of Health fund, which is being made available to NHS Trusts and Foundation Trusts, aims to kick start “new and innovative” energy efficiency...
DECC supports CMA training for non-energy specialists
Chris Allen, CEO of GAIA Active and Fellow and Chair of the Training Standards Working Party at the Energy Managers Association (EMA) The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is supporting energy management training for non-energy specialists, the first ever course to be approved by the Carbon Management Association (CMA), sister organisation of the Energy Managers Association (EMA). DECC...
UK government buys in to demand-side response
Kiwi Power, which has already participated in a number of public sector demand-side response programmes, claims it can identify areas where electricity supply can be temporarily cut with “little or no impact on site operations. The UK government’s procurement service, the GPS, has laid the way for a nationwide roll-out of demand-side response programmes across the public sector, following the launch...