group’s culture of fair pricing. Like any other business, YorPower needs to make a living, but all product mark-ups are fixed within their system; this never varies and is not subject to variation or individual enterprise.
Trust also means that customers can be sure that YorPower continually invests in the latest technology. At the same time, customers can look to YorPower to bring through the next generation of engineers. As members of the 5% Club, 5% of YorPower’s employees are apprentices. This applies to the wider team, including office staff, developing young people into well-rounded professionals who will grow with the company.
Trust that solutions are sustainable Customers can also trust YorPower to deliver back- up power solutions that are sustainable. Working with Neutral Carbon Zone, the company is on the way to becoming carbon neutral. On 18th April it achieved Silver Accreditation. This means that all scope 1, 2 and 3 of the organisational emissions at the YorPower Group have been calculated in accordance with ISO 14064 and the GHG Protocol corporate standard and have been offset using ICROA approved carbon offset credit to ensure its currently unavoidable emissions have been balanced.
YorPower has now started to focus on its operational emissions. The next phase includes a Lifecycle Assessment (LCA) based program that identifies the emissions of its services to ensure that all operational emissions have been calculated, reduced wherever possible, reported on and balanced to ensure that the services provided to its clients are fully carbon managed. The company’s aim is to achieve complete carbon neutrality for all business and service emissions.
Once YorPower has these calculations, it will only deliver services within the UK that include carbon offsetting. All staff are excited to be on this journey and hope to complete all four phases within the next year, making YorPower the first full carbon neutral company in their industry.
What trust looks like YorPower recently completed Phase 1 of a project at Leeds Railway Station.
Phase 1 of the project involved the decommissioning of an existing back-up power solution and the installation of a 30kVA Riello UPS (uninterruptible power supply) unit and battery. The previous Emerson UPS lasted for a three-year lifespan due to its location and the conditions in which it was housed. The new Riello UPS is a more robust industrial unit.
The decommissioning and installation took two and a half days. The team of four engineers from YorPower returned for a two-hour evening shift to commission the new unit while the station was running a reduced service.
The only challenge the team encountered during the project was from the human traffic within the station. YorPower’s engineers had a lot of hardware to get up to the first floor of the station; as this had to be done while trains were operating, it meant negotiating through the
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crowds of people, which was difficult but was completed safely and successfully.
YorPower has since set up a maintenance contract which will see their engineers make two visits per year to service this UPS and all other units on site (nine in total).
What will Phase 2 involve? Phase 2 will see the replacement of another 30kVA UPS on site at the station. This UPS provides back-up power for all the screens throughout the station. The client has requested that this is done during two-night shifts when the reduced service is running due to the installation being on a main platform, with limited room for both members of the public and Yorpower staff. Safety is paramount.
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