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Anglia Ruskin University

The Organisation

Anglia Ruskin University has campuses in Chelmsford and Cambridge and over 26,000 students. Its energy budget for 2007/08 was in excess of £1.5 million.
 

Monitoring and Targeting (M&T) 

TEAM software was used to monitor and target (M&T) energy use in conjunction with manual meter reading and invoices - a labour intensive process that does not provide reliable data. Timing, accuracy and accessibility are major obstacles, in particular the lack of metering for electricity on a building level.

Automatic meter reading (aMR) and monitoring and targeting (aM&T) was seen as an effective route to improvement and The Green Consultancy was commissioned to advise on implementation.

We recommended both aMR and aM&T as effective ways to automate and improve his management reporting and M&T functions and to achieve annual savings estimated at 891,500 kWh and 320 tonnes of Carbon Dioxide.

The university has recently implemented these recommendations. Chelmsford uses Enercom logging meters and Cambridge is using El Component. At the time of writing the systems were being commissioned and the intention is to link them to web enabled software.

Once the systems are fully commissioned, manual meter reading will be largely eliminated, freeing up direct labour, providing reliable data and allowing effective energy management and waste detection.

This will allow the University to:

• improve on savings being achieved through bill validation/checking
• make new savings through early detection of waste/ poor performance
• target its energy savings effort on a building by building basis
• quantify the achievements of its energy management programme
• provide meaningful utility reports to higher management
• procure its fuels more efficiently
• and in the long term institute a system for sub-billing its departments

"We have used The Green Consultancy for two investigative projects focusing on energy management, metering, Building Management Systems and plant issues. The service has been very good and the outcomes and recommendations concise, accurate and very useful.”

Mark Norman, Environmental Manager