Carbon emissions|Carbon Reduction Comittment|CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme

Carbon savings from Intelligent Electricity Management

Each kilowatt-hour of electricity used emits 0.537 kg of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Using Intelligent Electricity Management to reduce your electricity use is probably the simplest and most cost effective way to reduce your carbon emissions.

Calculating your carbon emissions

If you have not yet calculated your carbon emissions, the Carbon Trust have a simple carbon calculator which is a good place to start

You can calculate footprints for several organisations and you can save the results for review. To calculate your footprint, you will need your fuel bills (gas, electricity and others), and details of your vehicle use, transport, and employee travel.

Carbon reduction targets

These fall into two categories:

1. Carbon reductions required by law

The Climate Change Act has committed the UK to reduce green house gas emissions to 80% of their 1990 levels by 2050.

Regulation emerging from the Act include the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme (formerly the Carbon Reduction Committment) which obliges organisations using more than 6,000 MWh a year to join a mandatory cap and trade scheme, and National Indicators 185 (Percentage CO2 reduction from LA operations) and 186 (Per capita reduction in CO2 emissions in the LA area) focussing local government efforts to reduce emissions.

2. Voluntary carbon reductions

Some organisations, whether from stakeholder pressure, internal Cosporate Social responsibility policies or supply chain pressure, have set internal emissions reduction targets

Whether your committment is legal or voluntary, Intelligent Electricity Management is probably the simplest approach to meeting emissions reduction targets.

Streamline solutions

Streamline Power are energy efficiency analysts and consultants.

Using an Intelligent Electricity Management approach, we use our experience in power quality, aM&T, lighting, renewable energy and control systems to design and execute strategies to reduce enterprise electricity use, energy costs and carbon emissions that are tailored to your site and budget.

We like to keep thing simple and get things done. If you are looking for ways to reduce your carbon emissions, please get in touch - we are always happy happy to discuss energy reduction targets on an informal basis.