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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... 

Mitchell and Butlers: Overtime is not energy efficient

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... 
Tags: company energy use, E.ON, electricity, Energy, energy consumption, Energy economics, energy manager, excessive out-of-hours energy use, Martin Schwaller, Mitchells and Butlers

Sainsbury’s aims to save 59% on lighting costs with LEDs

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... 
Tags: Carbon footprint, electricity demand, energy savings, head of sustainability, LED technology, Light-emitting diode, Lighting, Lumination Linear Suspended, Lumination Linear Suspended lighting system, Paul Crewe, Sainsbury