Switch2 Energy is approved as supplier on Heat Metering…

Heat network specialist, Switch2 Energy, has been awarded a place on the Fife Council Heat Metering & Billing Services Framework Agreement, which will support participating local authorities and housing providers to deliver fully compliant projects and services with the Heat Network (Metering and Billing) Regulations.

Following a rigorous tender and assessment process, Switch2 has been fully approved to supply heat metering and billing services and associated equipment for new and existing local authority community and district heating schemes. This will ensure that statutory obligations are met for the collection of accurate meter readings and provision of clear billing information and bills.

BEMS Technology Rivals LED Lighting as Quarterly Trends Report…

The Q2 2018 Energy Efficiency Trends report published today by EEVS Insight and Bloomberg NEF (BNEF), shows a surge in projects incorporating building energy management systems (BEMS) technology, closing the gap with long running energy efficiency technology favourite LED lighting

Setting up and using the improved water bill validation…

After a break over the summer, we are returning to our Optima Best Practice Webinar Series with a special webinar on the improved Water Bill Validation functionality. Many users have already made a start with using the upgraded water bill validation system. This session is intended to provide some practical advice on how to get the most from the improved functionality.

The session is scheduled for 11 am on the 31st October and will comprise a 20-30 minute presentation with 10 minutes for Q&A afterwards. During the session, questions may be submitted via the webinar chat box or anonymously via email to the session’s host. The video and anonymised Q&A (where not on the video) will be made available in the Knowledge Base after the session.

If you would like to register interest for this webinar please see contact details below and an invitation will be sent with login details for the session. Space on the webinar is limited and will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

Where more than one user from your organisation wishes to join the webinar please arrange a meeting room or other conference facility so that multiple logins are not required. If demand is sufficient we may program a second session for very popular webinars.

If you would like any further information prior to registering your interest please contact your Customer Service Manager directly.

Note that videos from previous sessions are still available on the Knowledge Base;
Session 1: Visualizer Basics
Session 2: UBS – EMR & FIT
Session 3: Optima Basics
Session 4: Advanced Visualizer – Mapping Tools

Ben Rouncefield-Swales, Head of Operations
T: 01756 708538
E: ben.rouncefield-swales@optimaenergy.net

TATA Consultancy Services is rolling out a Partnership and…

ESTA member Tata Consultancy Services are currently looking to develop strategic alliances to launch their iON solutions for businesses in the UK. The programme led by TCS iON, a strategic business unit in TATA Consultancy Services will bring next generation technology solutions on its iON platform to the UK in an ‘IT on Tap’ commercial model (use what you need and pay for what you use). The iON platform with more than 1200 customers, 80 products and over 150 million users in the last five years is launching two business solutions in the first wave of this program:

iON Energy for digital energy management: It’s not just one more software for the energy manager to deal with. The solution comes with an intelligent command centre with trained energy consultants (yes! with actual humans not just computers) working round the clock in the background to identify savings opportunities and track initiatives to closure. The solution offers basic to advanced IoT based rollouts. It comes with a bill validation software and reports that simplify ESOS and ISO 50001 reporting requirements. The solution has been deployed across 98 sites for two of UK’s largest energy companies for managing and reporting across their own facilities.

iON Digital Learning Hub: The new platform is edtech on tap. It’s one of the most powerful platforms in the world for delivering education and industry-related training through multiple different online learning methods. From a simple one-off employee compliance test to a multi-course curriculum, the new platform can have content up and running within a few weeks. Companies, public bodies and educational institutions can save on capital IT investment and concentrate on their core business, not IT development. The Royal College of Physicians Ireland (RCPI) have been using TCS iON to create a global knowledge-sharing network since 2016. They now have over 55,000 members on their “Physician Network”, collaborating and learning in hundreds of different peer interest groups. The prestigious, internationally recognised Cambridge English business certificate run by Cambridge Assessment English, a department of the University of Cambridge, is using TCS iON to reduce the turnaround time for those taking the exam in both the UK and India from a few months to a few days

In India TCS iON is powering the world’s largest recruitment drive (launched on Aug 2018) on its iON Digital Assessment Hub. 23 million people are applying for 160,000 job vacancies on Indian Railways. One million trees will be saved by the test being run online. A Guinness World Record was made when 170,000 candidates took the test at the same time. The system can support 100 million simultaneous users on its products – that’s more than the whole population of the UK! (66.6m)

TCS is seeking partners with a common vision to work at scale to:
1. Resell their solutions
2. Offer and bundle allied services of other companies and consultants

To book a one on one session with TCS write to Anuradha at anuradha.iyer@tcs.com,
Alliance Leader for TCS iON.

TCS is hosting 12 sessions across UK every month: available on 2 October (London), 6 November (London, Birmingham and Edinburgh), 4 January (Coventry, Poole, London, Birmingham). Sessions will be booked in order of application.

About Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (TCS)
Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that has been partnering with many of the world’s largest businesses in their transformation journeys for the last fifty years. TCS offers a consulting-led, Cognitive powered, integrated portfolio of IT, Business & Technology Services, and engineering. This is delivered through its unique Location Independent Agile delivery model, recognized as a benchmark of excellence in software development.

A part of the Tata group, India’s largest multinational business group, TCS has over 394,000 of the world’s best-trained consultants in 46 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $19.09 billion for year ended March 31, 2018 and is listed on the BSE (formerly Bombay Stock Exchange) and the NSE (National Stock Exchange) in India. TCS’ proactive stance on climate change and award winning work with communities across the world have earned it a place in leading sustainability indices such as the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), MSCI Global Sustainability Index and the FTSE4Good Emerging Index. For more information, visit us at www.tcs.com.

Salix Finance announces dates and locations for 2018 Colleges…

Salix Finance are pleased to announce the dates and venues for the 2018 Colleges workshops. The workshops will run from late October to November at locations across England.

ENGIE enters local authority energy white label market with…

ENGIE, the leading energy and services Group, has signed its first energy white label contract with a local authority to supply householders across the north-west of England. In the new offer launched on 24th September 2018, residents in the Cheshire West and Chester region will benefit from a new local energy platform called Qwest Energy.

Switch2 Energy scores hat-trick at The Energy Awards

Switch2 Energy has been shortlisted for a hat-trick of national energy awards in recognition of its 35-year contribution to the community and district heating industry.

The heat network specialist is a triple finalist in The Energy Awards – for the categories of Supplier of Year, Innovation, and Energy Data Collection and Analysis.

Energy100 is a new and exciting pilot project sponsored…

We have launched an impactful programme to enable staff to live in healthier homes and to increase their disposable income, through encouraging reductions in their energy spend and use.

ENGIE joins with other large van fleet operators to…

16 of the UK’s largest fleet operators, including ENGIE are responding to the issue of poor air quality caused by vans in cities across the country by signing the Clean Van Commitment and together investing an initial £40 million over the next 2 years to drive the increase in use of electric vans.