A year-long energy reduction scheme for Land Securities has exceeded expectations by cutting energy use by almost a tenth across a number of the company’s London properties.
Northumbrian Water has signed a long-term power purchase agreement with solar developer Lightsource for a 250kW solar array at its Bran Sands waste water treatment plant.
Retailer Marks & Spencer witnessed its energy use fall by more than a third in the 2015/16 financial year, which it said testified to the significant progress of its Plan A initiative.
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is expecting to make annual savings of around £750,000 following the completion of an LED retrofit programme currently underway at its manufacturing facility in Solihull.
Porsche has pledged to reduce the environmental impact and energy consumption of its production facilities after reporting increases in emissions and usage over 2015.
Glass manufacturing giant NSG found a number of ways to help alleviate the “not insignificant” costs it was faced with in order for its UK manufacturing plants to comply with the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS).
The UK Green Building Council (UK-GBC) has recommended that the energy metric kWh per m2 be adopted across the building industry to provide a common unit of aspiration in the move to close the gap between design and building performance.
