• ISO 50001 and ESOS

    Posted by Axion on April 21st, 2015

    ISO 50001 and ESOS

    If you have an energy management system certified to ISO50001 that covers all your ‘significant energy consumption’ you are able to move straight to director sign off and inform the EA of your compliance. If you have an energy management system certified to ISO50001 standards that only covers parts of your organisation, you will need to carry out additional audits using one of the options above to cover the rest of your organisation. Note that your lead assessor will not need to review any elements covered by your ISO50001 certified energy management system but they will need to review anything not covered by this, DECs or GDAs. In the next newsletter we will discuss other energy management standards and ESOS.

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  • ESOS – Organisational Change Considerations

    Posted by Axion on April 21st, 2015

    ESOS – Organisational Change Considerations

    For example, for compliance in phase 1; if your organisation only qualifies for ESOS through membership of a larger corporate structure and then your organisation becomes independent of this structure during 2015 you will still need to comply with the requirements of ESOS for the first compliance phase either independently or as part of your old corporate structure.

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  • ESOS - Corporate Groups

    Posted by Axion on April 21st, 2015

    ESOS - Corporate Groups

    If your organisation is part of a corporate group that contains any organisation that qualifies for ESOS, then your whole UK organisation will also need to participate in ESOS.

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  • TM44 Air conditioning Energy Assessments—When and Why?

    Posted by Axion on March 18th, 2015

    Having an air conditioning system inspected by an accredited air conditioning energy assessor is designed to improve efficiency, reduce energy consumption, operating costs and the carbon emissions of the system. The energy assessor will highlight improvements to the operation of existing systems or opportunities to replace older, less energy efficient systems or oversized systems with new energy efficient systems. When air conditioning inspections are required: All air conditioning systems with an effective rated output of more than 12kw must be regularly inspected by an energy assessor.

    The inspections must be no more than five years apart. The regulations require the first inspection of the affected air conditioning systems to be carried out as follows:

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  • What is a DEC and why is it important

    Posted by Axion on March 18th, 2015

    Since 1 October 2008 public buildings in the UK over 500m2 must display a Display Energy Certificate (DEC) prominently at all times. 

    DECs are designed to promote the improvement of the energy performance of buildings. They are based upon actual energy usage of a building and raise awareness about the energy efficiency of public buildings. The certificate looks similar to the energy labels provided on new cars and electrical appliances such as fridges and freezers – it uses a similar scale for energy efficiency, i.e. from A to G with A being the most efficient and G the least.

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  • LED retrofit lamps for fluorescent lighting

    Posted by Axion on March 18th, 2015

    Shedding new light: Significant savings could be as easy as changing a light bulb!

    LED lamps seem to be revolutionising the lighting market in terms of energy efficiency and several manufacturers are now selling linear LED lamps which can be used as direct replacements for existing fluorescent T8 and T12 lamp without the need to carry out any electrical modifications to the light fittings. This makes changing of the lamps straightforward; reducing both the time and cost of relamping a building with LED lamps.

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  • Schools – are you on the lowest tariff?

    Posted by Axion on March 18th, 2015

    A local Academy that we worked with has recently renegotiated gas and electricity contracts with exceptional results.

    The academy will save approximately £40,000 over the 3 year term of the gas contract and a further £1,200 each year on electricity for 2 years.

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