Carbon Trust top energy saving tips for businesses.
Carbon Trust top energy saving tips for businesses.
Here are a few simple but very effective tips from the Carbon Trust that save both energy and money.
Switch lights off in empty rooms.
You could cut your lighting costs by as much as 15%, just by making sure you turn lights off in rooms and corridors that aren’t being used
Don’t turn up the heating unless you really need to
Unless it’s just too cold for comfort, try to keep your thermostat at 19°C. Your heating costs will go up by 8% each time you increase the temperature by just one degree.
Maintain your equipment properly.
If you don’t regularly check your heating equipment, you could be adding as much as 10% to your heating bill without knowing it.
Vending machines v kettles.
It is cheaper to provide a kettle for staff who work outside normal business hours than to continue to run a drinks vending machine during these times.
Standby.
A single computer and monitor left on 24 hours a day will cost over £50 a year. Switching them off out of hours and enabling standby features could reduce this to £15 a year each and prolong the lifespan of equipment.
Lighten up.
Replacing high wattage filament lamps or tungsten halogen lamps with compact fluorescent lamps or metal halide lamps will give energy savings of 65-75%.
Find and fix compressed air leaks.
Compressed air leaking through a single 3mm hole could cost you nearly £700 per year in energy costs.
Motors and drives.
Swapping a single 10kW motor running at 25% loading for a 2.5kW motor running at full load can save around £300/year
Leaving electric motors running over weekends across the year could cost over £2,000 per motor
Lowering the speed of a motor by just 20% can produce an energy saving of up to 50%.
Source Carbon Trust.
