Out-of-town retailer Matalan is set to net savings of £1.7 million on its annual energy bill, following the installation of a new wireless building energy management system across 206 of its 216 stores. The system, from Wireless Energy Management Systems (WEMS) International, has so far been installed in 155 of the stores, with the remaining 51 due to be completed by the end of September, the company... 

Telecoms giant BT cut its global energy use by 3.3% in the 2012/13 financial year racking up annual savings of £33 million, according to the company’s yearly sustainability report. Driven by CSR targets and by the need to cut costs in the face of rising prices the company cut its energy use to 2,575 GWh down from 2,665 GWh the previous year. This has exceeded BT’s target of cutting energy use... 

Disability sports landmark Stoke Mandeville Stadium has invested in a £5,000 joint water and energy saving package, which it says will pay for itself within a year. The stadium, the home of the British Wheelchair Association and the National Centre for Disability Sport, has installed aerators on the building’s shower heads, urinals and taps, which will simultaneously reduce the water consumption... 

This contributed piece for Energy Demand comes from Rob Bamforth, marketing director at software platform company Ecosteer – the firm’s market proposition is that monitoring energy consumption (or production!) is not enough to know if your business site is really efficient: what really matters is how energy usage changes with varying temperature, humidity and luminosity. The concept of... 

The technology used by SME energy managers to manage buildings’ energy use will undergo a “complete” shift to cloud-based systems by 2020, according to a report by Japan’s Global Issues Initiative (GII). The shift will see building energy management systems (BEMS) increasingly utilising data stored on an external cloud-based server accessible online, as opposed to any single hard drive residing...