Bluewater Shopping Centre at dusk The UK’s second biggest shopping centre is attempting to halve its seven-figure energy bill using technology from Anglo-American firm Sefaira. With an annual energy bill of £1.4 million, the owners of Bluewater say they intend to use Sefaira’s ‘Renew’ software to seek out inefficiencies and attempt to develop a capital investment programme that they hope will... 

Pascal Mittermaier, who heads up the sustainability team for the owners of Bluewater shopping centre, criticised the UK government for failing to lay out exactly how it planned to incentivise UK businesses to tackle energy efficiency issues. The government’s pay-as-you-save scheme – the Green Deal – could be re-targeted at UK businesses in future, according to sources at the Department...