ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Councils make savings with VPO
Nearly 180 councils in the UK are now utilising powerPerfector’s Voltage Power Optimisation technology explains the company’s head of sales, Wayne Muncaster.
V
oltage Power Optimisation technology deals with the discrepancy between
the actual supply voltage you receive (on average 242V) and the optimum voltage your electrical equipment needs (220V). Uniquely, it also features embedded power conditioning benefits, improving the quality of power to the building.
The range of sites managed by councils means there is always an opportunity to make savings with voltage optimisation.
In total, 178 councils have installed the technology in 526 sites. A typical example of this are the nine units installed at Epsom and Ewell Borough Council, where a warehouse, leisure centre, social club, car park and town hall are all saving with VPO.
The council is making savings in the region of £34,000 every year and it is expected these savings will increase as energy prices and the effect of the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme comes in to force over the coming years.
Christina Royo, the council’s sustainable energy manager, said: “Following the installation of two more powerPerfectors in to our car parks we are seeing excellent savings, which exceed the predictions.
“We now have nine powerPerfector units Collaborative saving
The implementation of Voltage Power Optimisation has reduced energy spend across Greater Manchester’s public sector bodies by over £500,000 every year.
AGMA brings together the key environmental and technical decision makers from across the ten local authorities and several associated organisations. The group works together towards strategic objectives and shares best practice between member authorities.
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European Union (OJEU) approved procurement and by communicating and collaborating
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installed at the council. Our experience with powerPerfector would lead me to recommend this technology to any other energy manager looking to make savings.”
Local authorities have really embraced the technology. In total, we are saving them around £4m every year in energy costs.
powerPerfector is the UK’s leading provider of Voltage Optimisation technology. The embedded power conditioning benefits make powerPerfector’s VPO unique, increasing the cost and CO2 savings you make.
as a group, VPO, once reviewed, was rapidly adopted.
Following more than 90 installations, the group has saved over £1,000,000 to date, at an annual rate of over £500,000 a year. It is stepping up to the environmental challenge as well, saving a combined 2,900 tonnes of CO2 annually.
Laura Partridge, senior energy officer at Salford City Council, said: “With the help of the powerPerfector personnel and their approved contractors, installations have gone smoothly and without disruption. Voltage Power Optimisation has been a core solution in our Carbon Management
Programme
and has been fundamental in achieving our annual consumption and CO2 savings targets.”
Finance solution
Government spending cuts have made it difficult for councils to prioritise major capital spend. But, there are still ways to make savings, according to Ian Jackson of Quartz Finance, a specialist
consultancy which is helping businesses of all sizes to recognise the benefits of financing energy efficiency projects.
He said: “At Quartz we realised early on that there was an opportunity for businesses to create additional, positive cash flows. We achieve this by structuring project specific, energy efficiency finance packages, where the repayments are lower, sometimes significantly, than the savings from the projects.
“The public sector has been somewhat bitten by PFIs but this is a much shorter term deal (usually in the region of five to seven years) and is perfect to allow carbon reduction whilst budgets are restrained.”
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