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How to energise the efficiency of heat networks to benefit residential customers is the topic of a free breakfast seminar in central London on Thursday 23 November 2017.
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Salix Finance is pleased to announce three CPD certified Combined Heat and Power (CHP) workshops in November and December 2017.
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Switch2 Energy has won the Association for Decentralised Energy (ADE) Customer Engagement Award of the Decade for its success in focusing community and district heating projects around residents’ needs.
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Greater flexibility in financing street lighting schemes should give confidence to authorities who are looking to improve energy efficiency and save money.
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Greater flexibility in financing street lighting schemes should give confidence to authorities who are looking to improve energy efficiency and save money.
So if an authority is looking to upgrade its street lighting where can it turn? One option is to consider an interest free energy efficiency loan, offered by Salix to public sector bodies in England, Scotland and Wales.
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The government’s Clean Growth Strategy plans to establish an Industrial Energy Efficiency scheme to help large companies install measures to cut their energy use and their bills.
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Our Triad Warning System will provide alerts and help reduce your business energy costs. Signing up is simple and easy…
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The Capacity Market (CM) was established as part of the UK Government’s Electricity Market Reform (EMR) Programme. Its goal is to ensure the future security of our electricity supply at the lowest cost to consumers by offering incentives to capacity providers for investing in more sustainable, low-carbon electricity.
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eTRV+, a British made electronic thermostatic radiator valve was selected by the RBS Innovation Gateway to be trialled at The Waterfront, a two floor office in Elstree. The Chalmor eTRV+ fits directly to radiators in place of traditional TRV’s enabling automatic room by room heating control.
The primary heating is by gas fired boilers that supply radiators and controlled by a Building Management System together with a boiler control system and would therefore be considered to be already efficiently controlled. eTRV+ technology would further reduce the load on the boilers and enable individual control of floors and offices thereby realising additional energy savings.
eTRV+ reduces energy consumption and delivers higher levels of comfort by:
– More accurate temperature measurements than traditional TRV’s thereby reducing overheating.
– Tamperproof so that occupants cannot randomly change settings.
– Individual time schedules enable radiators to be switched off when not required and provide more granular control than possible by the BMS.
– Weekly valve exercise cycle prevents valves from sticking open or shut.
There is a history at Elstree of staff using temporary electric heaters to supplement heating and if eTRV+ did achieve the required temperature in a more efficient manner then it was expected that a reduction would be seen in both the gas and electric consumption. Conversely if eTRV+ failed to achieve the required comfort levels then despite reducing gas consumption an increase in electricity consumption would be seen.
The Waterfront Gas consumption reduced by 51% over four months from January to April 2017. The saving was 101,684 kWh, reducing emissions by 18.3 tCO2. At the same time electricity consumption also decreased by 12% evidencing that comfort levels were at the least maintained.
Adjusting the savings for weather using degree day information it would suggest that over a full 12 months that it would be possible to reduce gas consumption by as much as 30% – 40%.
For further information please contact steven.henry@chalmor.co.uk www.chalmor.co.uk