Enigin Update - Kesko Save Big with Energy Efficiency
KESKO, a Finnish retailing conglomerate, with about 2,000 stores in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, and Belarus, has made great headway in saving energy through energy efficiency measures.
Kesko has saved 34 GWh (gigawatt-hours) of energy in 2008-2010, which represents more than half of its target. In the trading sector energy efficiency agreement, Kesko is committed to saving 65GWh by the end of 2016, which is equivalent to the annual energy consumption of some 2,600 one-family houses.
Apart from reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the saving will also protect the corporations bottom line through reduced energy costs.
Some of the biggest savings have been achieved through things that are visible on every shopping visit, such as chest freezer lids and signs illuminated with LED technology.
LED technology is used in the illuminated signs of all new K-food stores, K-rauta, Rautia, Anttila and car stores. The resulting savings compared with traditional neon and fluorescent tube solutions are 60-70 percent. The general lighting of a store, implemented in K-supermarket
Torpparinmäki, consumes over 35 percent less energy than the generally used lighting. Adjustable and targeted store lighting systems in the Anttila and Kodin Ykkönen stores save as much as half of conventional store lighting systems.
Kesko's 40 real estate managers regularly visit all of the K-Group stores giving advice on how to reduce energy consumption. More savings are also generated with the help of accurate energy measuring devices, timely maintenance of refrigeration equipment and temperature adjustments.
Enigin Distributors globally are enabling many in the retail sector to gain control of their energy use and spend through utilising Enigin plc's systems, such as Eniscope Real-time and Analytics, to manage energy visually in real time and, hence make energy efficiency decisions based on historical, accurate, analytical energy data.
Picture of a K-Rauta outlet by Patrick Strandberg reproduced under CCL
