Business West - Go Green Workshop - Paintworks

Go Green BristolThere’s money to be saved by going green….

Improving Your Resource Efficiency BristolPresenter: James Hammond

Introduction

• Who am I?

• Who are we?

• Who is funding this workshop?

• Introductions

• Housekeeping

Aims and Objectives

• Understand about resource efficiency

• How to start greening your business

• Some initial steps to take

• How to benefit from these actions

• Possible sources of funding available

• Where to go for further information

Schedule of workshop

Part 1 - Resource Efficiency (or going green!)

- Workbook exercise

Part 2 - How to go green

- Workbook exercise

- Break (Phew!)

Part 3 - Green marketing, funding and what to do now

- Filling in forms and questions

- Coffee and networking

Resource efficiency (or going green!)

• Part 1 covers:

1) What are resources?

2) Why it is important to be efficient?

3) What are the benefits of being efficient?

4) What do YOU use and why?


• Main resources we use are:





• All of these produce:


• The average business uses 20% of these resources inefficiently

• Simply, saving 20% on your costs = larger profits!

• So, how does this effect your profits….


If your turnover = £100,000

And 10% of this is profit = £10,000

Your costs currently amount to 25% = £25,000

So, if you reduce your costs by 20% = £5,000 saved

Now your profit is £15,000, which is equivalent to a 50% increase in turnover!


• As a bonus, you can help save the planet as well

Cost = Consumption = Carbon

14p = 1 kWh = 0.5041kg CO2e

Use less, spend less, produce less carbon


• What is CO2e?

• A greenhouse gas (GHG) is one that absorbs and emits IR radiation in the atmosphere

• Carbon dioxide is not the only greenhouse gas, other include:

– Ozone

– Water vapour

– Methane

• So CO2e is the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide that would give the same radiative forcing as an amount of another GHG


Some examples:

• Marks and Spencer Plan A– Started in 2007

– Generated £185M in benefits

– Reduced energy use by 28%

– Reduced waste


• Local example– Manufacturer of wood packaging and pallets– 24hr operation, large, high ceiling space, no natural

light– Annual lighting costs of over £17,000

– Total cost, including installation was £15,500– Annual saving of £10,000 in electricity, plus lower

maintenance costs– Plus annual carbon saving of 65 tonnes!


Other benefits include:

1) Open new opportunities in the market

2) More productive workplace

3) Tap into a growing “green” marketplace

4) Feel good about yourself and your business


Workbook exercise and discussion:

Your Resource Use

How to go green – Measuring and Saving

Part 2 covers:

1) Why to start measuring?

2) How to monitor

3) Where to focus your attention?

4) Where can you start saving?

5) What can your business do now?


• Why measure?

“You can’t manage what you don’t measure”

• Can provide some instant savings, for example


• How to measure your usage:– Use your energy monitor

– Examine bills

– Monitor stock levels

– Examine waste streams

– Monitor equipment performance


• Use your energy monitor


• Examine your bills



Examining trends in usage:Weekly Consumption


Examining trends in usage:

Daily Consumption


Examining trends in usage:Hourly Consumption


• Single shift office

How to go green – Measuring and SavingThermal Energy Use


• Payback period– This is the length of time that the capital cost of a

project is recouped by the saving in expenditure by that project

– E.g. total cost £10,000

– Annual saving = £2,000

– Payback = 10,000 / 2,000 = 5 years

– This doesn’t account for other savings, such as increased productivity or decreased maintenance


• How to decide what to invest

How to go green – Measuring and SavingCapital Cost

£1,500.06p £1,309.85p

How to go green – Measuring and SavingEfficiency rating

How to go green – Measuring and SavingRunning Cost

Alpha Worcester

Gas unit price £/kWh 0.04 0.04

Gas annual consumption (kWh)* 300,000 300,000

3.5% increase 310,500 0

Annual running cost £12,420 £12,000

*Average figure for medium sized officefrom Carbon Trust

£1,309.85 £1,500.06


Whole Life Cost

Setup costs

• capital equipment cost

• delivery

• installation

• building alterations

• staff training

End of life costs

• decommissioning

• disposal

How to go green – Measuring and SavingWhy we look at lighting


• LED Bulbs

• For 8 lamps, running 8 hours per day

Bulb kWh per year Cost (at 14p per unit)

CO2 (kg)

Halogen 1168 £163.52 631

LED 164 £22.89 88


Workbook exercise:

Writing your own green action plan

Green marketing, funding and what to do now

Part 3 covers:

1) Where can I find funding?

2) Why tell people about your green improvements?

3) How to tell people

4) What do I do now?


• Sources of funding• Capital• The IYRE scheme

• Invest in renewables• The Feed in Tariffs (FiTs)• The Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI)


• The Improving Your Resource Efficiency (IYRE) Scheme

• Open to SMEs in the South West

• Provides a one to one advice service aimed at reducing your business carbon output

• Possibility of receiving a grant towards green improvements


Why tell people?

1. Important to your customers, and opens new opportunities

2. Increases staff productivity

3. Growing sector of the market (EGS sector grew 4.7% between 2009/10 – 2010/11, non EGS was 0.7% within same period)

4. CSR


How to tell people

- Internally

- Environmental policy or EMS

- Integrate into your company’s:

- emails

- website

- Make it relevant to your audience

- Press releases


What can I do now:

• Join a local cluster group

• Engage your colleagues

• Be realistic – no one can do it all straight away

• Do it now!

Forms!

• Now the exciting bit!

That’s it!

• Thanks for coming and good luck with your saving!