Enigin - UK Public Sector Must Save Energy To Reach CO2 Reduction Targets
Approximately 33% of the UK's emissions from non-domestic properties, which implies the public sector still has a long way to go to reduce the country's greenhouse gas emissions, with hospitals as top offenders.
The Communities and Local Government Department have undertaken an audit which revealed that the 28,000 public buildings in England and Wales emit almost 14 million tonnes of CO2/year.
The figure equates to about £4bn per annum in energy bills, according to the Carbon Trust, and is 27% higher than some previous estimates of the scale the public sector plays in greenhouse gas emissions.
Energy efficiency is the essential factor that needs to be widely implemented in the public sector so as to significantly change the trend. Companies like Enigin can offer the most cost-effective and efficient solutions, which would not only result in consequential carbon reduction, but also in tremendous savings on energy costs for the public sector.
Enigin distributors are specialists in energy efficiency and are well known and appreciated for the quality of their products and customer service worldwide. The energy systems that Enigin partners can provide bring the most suitable solution to the public sector's excess energy consumption problem, to contribute in reaching the governmental carbon reduction targets recently agreed on.
With those targets put in place, Enigin distributors are faced with an unmissable business opportunity, as the targets to reduce carbon emissions will entail mass demand from public sector buildings, who will need to implement energy efficient equipment in order to comply to the standards set and also so as to make savings on running costs.
Only 5,000 public buildings have received the lowest-band G rating under the UK government's energy performance certificate scheme, and only 151 buildings have received the top A rating, according to the Guardian newspaper.
8 of the 10 worst polluting buildings were hospitals (namely NHS), while the prison sector was labeled as the 2nd worst offender.
The most polluting hospital was the Royal London in Whitechapel, which emitted 46,128 tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2009 - the equivalent of pollution from 7,700 homes.
The most polluting prisons were The Grove young offenders institution in Portland, Dorset and Pentonville Prison in North London, which jointly emitted more than 16,500 tonnes of carbon dioxide each year.
However, the Prison Service expressed its plan to spend £4.5m on green measures such as smart energy meters (such as the Eniscope, which Enigin distributors can supply across the globe), insulation and more energy efficient boilers as part of efforts to cut its emissions by 3% each year for the next 5 years.
The Eniscope is especially helpful and subjet of major demand, as it acts as a virtual energy manager, 24/7. With the Eniscope, Enigin distributors are able to offer a metering instrument which quantifies energy usage and wastage, and which presents the gathered data in a very easy to read format, in real time. The energy consumption information is easily accessible from any PC, laptop or iPhone in the world, at any time, and the tool itself takes only a few minutes to install.
As the prison sector has outlined, such metering systems will be highly sought out nationwide and worldwide, as central elements for becoming energy efficient.
The UK government released a report suggesting that central government departments were on track to meet the UK's target of cutting emissions 12.5 % from 1999 levels by 2011, and will discuss its ability to reduce emissions across the wider public sector in order to meet its target of cutting emissions by 30% by 2020.
In light of those encouraging targets, Enigin distributors and entrepreneurs hesitating to become Enigin partners could not seize a better moment to join the energy efficiency industry!
