Product News Businesses must take ‘immediate action’
as energy support for fi rms is reduced Lighting controls specialist B.E.G. insists it is vital that businesses and organisations take ‘immediate action’ by working to reduce their own energy consumption in the wake of the Government’s decision to scale back support from April.
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nder the new energy support scheme announced on 10 January, fi rms will now get a discount on wholesale prices rather than costs being capped. The current support package, which was fi rst launched in September aſt er prices were driven up in the wake of the pandemic and war in Ukraine, ends on 31 March. The new energy support scheme will run from 1 April 2023, to 31 March 2024.
Paul Jones, director at lighting controls manufacturer B.E.G. UK Limited, says businesses need to do all they can to reduce energy consumption themselves, especially as fi rms will only benefi t from the new scheme when energy bills are high. “Whilst the Government will continue to provide
some help to businesses, it will be at a less generous level than before from April,” he said. “Therefore it is imperative that organisations take immediate action and do what they can themselves to reduce their own energy consumption.
“The lighting industry is constantly looking at ways to help ease the burden felt by businesses hit hardest by soaring energy costs with new technologies, and one of the most eff ective ways to use less energy is by ‘controlling’ how it is used.
“Modern motion and occupancy sensors are totally focused on ensuring that lighting is only used based on demand. These products are designed to consider the luminosity of the room in regards to natural light and engineered in such a way that the sensors automatically dim the artifi cial lighting to the required brightness. This means the sensor includes as much ‘free’ available natural light as possible
in order that energy consumption is signifi cantly reduced.”
Jones continued: “Businesses do not want to make their buildings less comfortable or unsafe – so many are turning to presence-controlled building automation.
“Turning the lights off may still work in private households, but the larger a building is, the less users feel responsible, especially in commercial buildings, industrial halls, warehouses, car parks, hospitals, hotels and public buildings. Here lighting control needs to work automatically as soon as an area is in use.
“At B.E.G., we have seen organisations using lighting control sensors make energy savings of up to 50% in an offi ce building, up to 60% in a high-bay warehouse and up to 80% in washrooms.”
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