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Government invests £5 million to help keep the lights on
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Sainsbury’s is one of a number of companies to bid for an Electricity Demand Reduction grant, as Whitehall eyes ways to keep the lights on in winter.
The Government is investing nearly £5 million to encourage leading UK firms such as Sainsbury’s, to install energy efficient lighting.
The money is part of an attempt by Whitehall to reduce peak time energy levels as fears rise that the National Grid will not be able to cope with electricity demands this winter, leading to nationwide blackouts.
A string of leading companies, including British Gas, Sainsbury’s, Sony and BAE Systems, have bid for funding in the second auction of the Electricity Demand Reduction (EDR) pilot.
Plumbing firm Wolseley UK received an EDR grant of £100k and is using the money to kit out its distribution centre with upgraded LED lighting.
The company claims that the new fixtures will reduce its electricity demand by 236,000 kWh, which is enough energy to power more than 300 homes.
Wolseley worked closely with Cloudfm on the maintenance work, a partnership that has also led to Wolseley’s head office in Leamington Spa being awarded a BREEAM “Excellent” rating.
The scheme works by encouraging consumers to provide capacity in the form of megawatts to help the UK meet its energy efficiency targets and reduce pressure on the National Grid. The pilot also reduces the energy bills of those involved.
The Government had originally allotted £6 million to the pilot, but a lack of uptake meant that not all the money was allocated.
This is the second time that an EDR auction has failed to reach its target, the first, held last year, saw only £1.28m out of a total of £10 million being snapped up.
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How electric companies are transforming America’s lighting
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Lux Today 16 September 2015: Utilities across the US are engaged in a massive program to cut the demand for energy – using lighting. Ray Molony reports from Oklahoma.
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SHEFFIELD:
In three years’ time, Sheffield will no longer be visible from the peak district at night.
The city is replacing all its 68,000 streetlights with white LED lamps, reducing light pollution while aiming to cut energy consumption by 40 per cent. The LED streetlights are remotely controlled by a system that detects lamps in need of repair and alerts maintenance staff, and the lamps can be dimmed or brightened street by street or even lamp by lamp.
According to the city council, the project, which started in 2012, will take five years to complete
LINCOLNSHIRE:
North East Lincolnshire Council is hoping to complete two tasks at once: improving street safety while saving energy with LED streetlights. Over the next two
years, 16,500 orange sodium streetlights will be replaced with white LEDs.
The council has invested £8.2 million in the project, and expects the new light sources to have operating lives of 104,000 hours, compared with 18,000 for the
Jason Longhurst, head of development services at the council, says: ‘Lower running costs means we will limit the impact of rising energy costs that we are all seeing. But there are also wider social benefits, such as making the area more attractive and making people feel safer.’old lamps.
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