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New energy technology – the learnings for Education

Improve energy insight and efficiency, manage costs, create sustainability.
Schools, colleges and universities and educational services are under increasing pressure to cut costs and deliver on sustainability and environmental targets, often in the face of funding cuts. Large campuses in particular contain a great deal of energy-consuming equipment – so finding the right solution can be complex.
What can new energy technology offer?
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The power of knowledge
Uses IoT-based energy analytics to deliver a complete picture of your energy consumption in granular detail to unlock savings and hidden value.
less cost, more revenue.
Less cost, more revenue
Reduces your energy and facilities management costs. Helps large energy users create a new revenue stream by feeding reserve energy capacity back into the grid.
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Greater energy control
Improves your site resilience by proactively identifying energy issues and equipment failure before they cause downtime – particularly important for research facilities, where energy failure can have significant consequences.
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Reduced waste, reduced carbon
Helps you monitor, measure and ultimately transform energy usage to meet legislated sustainability and environmental targets.
£400m
annual energy costs for further and higher education (source: Carbon Trust)
3m
tonnes of CO2 emissions are produced each year from the education sector (source: Carbon Trust)
£44m
the potential savings for UK schools in reduced energy costs (source: Carbon Trust)
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Reports and Whitepapers Achieving energy sustainability in higher education facilities

Higher education facilities have enormously complex operations with challenging requirements.

Case Study Putting our energy into education

Smart energy sensors have cut a US school district’s energy supply by 250,000 kWh, delivering…

Reports and Whitepapers The Resilience Report

Centrica Business Solutions surveyed energy decision-makers across multiple industries to understand…

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