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Devolved energy costs
About the devolved energy costs scheme, its objectives and the equipment used to achieve this.
About the project
The costs of energy and therefore carbon emissions are to be devolved to all colleges and support groups.
This process will include the issue of reports to advise historic annual consumption and costs as well as the monthly issue of actual consumption and costs.
This devolution costs scheme will run in parallel to current arrangements for energy and is intended to familiarise staff with energy and water use.
Further description of the School/Planning unit tabular report can be found under
Objectives
The objectives of the devolution project are:
- meter and record frequent and accurate energy information of more than 90% of the University buildings.
- promote ownership of energy and water use.
- overall reduction in energy consumption and carbon footprint.
- keep track of how effective energy saving schemes are (e.g. renewable technologies or the Switch and Save campaign).
- identify avoidable waste and use information to facilitate equipment procurement.
- drive behaviour change of colleges and support groups buy giving them direct responsibility for costs and savings of energy use.
Meter, monitoring and targeting system
Traditionally the University receives energy consumption information from a bill on a monthly or quarterly basis. These bills are often estimated, and therefore inaccurate. Estimated bills are due to suppliers not accessing buildings and a once a year read as part of the suppliers contract.
As part of the devolved budget system the University has installed automatic meter reading equipment and fitted a data collection communications and infrastructure throughout the University.
Meter data is collected over the University data network and radio linked to central databases installed on Information Services (IS) servers. These readings are taken every half an hour and displayed on a PC.
The Monitoring and Targeting (M&T) software maps the metered information to buildings and their associated floor areas.
Further benefits of the M&T system are:
- reporting on consumption costs per building for each planning unit and school.
- setting budgets and targets for each planning unit and school.
- providing invoice data for upload into the University's financial system for the production of eIT's.
- validating invoices from suppliers.
- early identification of faults and leaks.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Further information on Devolved Energy reports can be found under FAQs.
This article was published on Aug 31, 2012