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Barts and London NHS Trust take on PC power management
Efficiency in the health sector is a core focus of high level government debate. Software management firm Certero explains to Energy Demand how a recent project involving a leading London hospital demonstrates the vital role PC Power Management (PCPM) can play to create cost and energy savings and boost green credentials. The scale of the UK’s PCPM challenge has been highlighted in many reports....
BT cuts 2012/13 energy use by 3.3% with smart network
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...
Video: Asha Kayla, Alliance Boots “Energy legislation needs to be simplified”
In this video interview (below) Asha Kayla, Energy and Carbon Reduction Manager at Alliance Boots, shares her opinions on her role in the Energy Management field and work at the Energy Managers Association. Alliance Boots was formed in 2006 through the merger of the UK retail brand Boots and the wholesale and retail pharmacy group Alliance UniChem. Alliance Boots is a multinational health and beauty...
St. Faiths School: chalking up energy savings
Energy Demand speaks to Richard Brent, bursar at St Faiths School in Cambridgeshire and Charlie Cochrane, IT project consultant at Joskos Solutions, to get an educational perspective on energy efficiency. For many years, schools have had their budgets stretched in a myriad of imaginative ways. Securing the best staff, nailing funding for new facilities, keeping up to date with the latest technology...
Saved by the Dell: IT power management system delivers classroom savings
Energy saving in the education sector has been brought to the forefront as it was revealed that a UK school is on course to shave over 12% off its annual energy bill after installing a power management system across its entire IT suite. Richard Brent, bursar at St Faith’s independent school in Cambridge, told Energy Demand the school had seen £3,500 in savings on its energy bill since it installed...
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...
Vodafone: Using Mobile SIM Cards to Communicate with Smart Meters
“A Vodafone SIM has been integrated into the smart meter to transmit energy consumption data to and from Enexis’ data centres.” This case study focuses on a story from Enexis, one of the largest energy network operators in the Netherlands, managing around 4.5 million customer connections. As part of a European Union directive that 80% of homes must be able to monitor electricity consumption...
Automotive energy saving from PC console to car cockpit
John Lunt, Certero With high throughput businesses coming into increasing focus on the nation’s carbon emission and energy management agenda, firms operating within the automotive sector can consider themselves prime targets for business improvement processes brought about (in many cases) by advances in technology. With this thought in mind, news this week surfaces of software specialist consultancy...