1. Leadership buy-in and reporting

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1 Energy Management Shared Learning Seminar Workshop outputs are arranged by theme: 1. Leadership buy-in and reporting 2. Energy projects and general metering 3. LED lighting 4. Water management 5. Behaviour change and engagement Ideas and problems delegates shared are matched where possible. 1. Leadership buy-in and reporting Sustainable Schools. Street lighting switch off. Invest-to-Save Projects. Use induction and appraisal to encourage and cascade down key priorities. Energy and sustainability key performance indicators reported regularly to highest organisational board. Paul Egan. One Voice Wales. Richard James. Cardiff Metropolitan University. Difficult to get top-level support for establishing Invest-to-Save, ringfencing funds Revenue to capital transition for Investto-Save schemes. Involvement of finance. How to maintain focus / interest in carbon / environmental management programmes / projects during period of change / restructuring / cuts, where leaders / staff have other / competing priorities and concerns. Best mechanism for reporting progress for 1) Board Level 2) Senior Management and 3) Staff. Issues obtaining management buy-in. Christopher Lewis. christopher.lewis4@wales.nhs.uk Eric Thomas. eric.thomas@wales.nhs.uk Ros Granger. Welsh Government. ros.granger@wales.gsi.gov.uk Dan Ferris. dan.ferris@south-wales.pnn.police.uk Trisha Pearson.

2 Sustainability on Management Plan. Mick Campbell. Carbon footprinting to include scope 1, 2 & 3. One Voice Wales advises community and town councils there are 735 in Wales and collectively have significant property / facilities. Eric Thomas. eric.thomas@wales.nhs.uk Paul Egan. One Voice Wales. paul.egan@onevoicewales.org.uk How can I best advise community and town councils? Getting buy-in for intangible savings e.g. am&t. Hard to prove savings up front. Paul Egan. One Voice Wales. paul.egan@onevoicewales.org.uk 2. Energy projects and general metering AMR retro fitted across organisation. Significant investment with Energy Saving in major refurbishment. Developed tools to measure carbon footprint simply and to assess carbon Christopher Lewis. Metering. Understanding the challenges in reducing costs and carbon for the public sector. There are many standard type buildings with similar purposes in the Community Jon McGarrigle. Cardiff and Vale University Jon.McGarrigle@wales.nhs.uk Amanda Biss. Egnida. amanda@egnida.co.uk Paul Egan. One Voice Wales.

3 reduction projects. Council sector it would be good to have a toolkit where Community Councils can assess cost-benefits of energy conversation approaches. CHP in leisure centres / schools. BREEAM excellent design in new projects. Biomass wood pellets. Using DEC s as a benchmark for improvement. Planned maintenance. Combined heat and power. Steam system optimisation in progress. Solar PV project with Egnida across 5 sites. Matthew Harries. Bridgend County Borough Council. matthew.harries@bridgend.gov.uk Jon McGarrigle. Cardiff and Vale University Jon.McGarrigle@wales.nhs.uk Hidden costs in projects. paul.egan@onevoicewales.org.uk Have provided funded PV options for local authorities with good immediate savings and significant benefits over 20 year period. Now BREEAM excellent station Cardiff. BMS linked to headquarters for monitoring. Motion sensors. PV panels. Grey water. All areas of station electricity sub monitored and can be monitored from headquarters. Access via proximity card. All monitored and controlled from headquarters. Replacement technology. Heating controls. Lighting controls. CHP has given the greatest overall carbon saving for the NHS in Wales. Amanda Biss. Egnida. amanda@egnida.co.uk Anthony Carter. South Wales Fire and Rescue Service. a-carter@southwales-fire.gov.uk Eric Thomas. eric.thomas@wales.nhs.uk

4 Monthly reporting of energy / water consumption. Voltage optimisation. Variable speed drives. Adjustments to BMS. Recycling and fewer bins. Martin Rowlands. HM Courts and Tribunal Service. martin.rowlands@hmcts.gsi.gov.uk Funding for projects. Funding (as usual). Time/resourcing. Carbon savings for transport. Difficult to secure funds for medium to long-term payback schemes. True cost of energy forecasting year on year not included in business case. How to use mountains of data? No funding for energy efficiency or Salix. Eric Thomas. eric.thomas@wales.nhs.uk Richard Gotheridge. Arriva Trains Wales. richard.gotheridge@arrivatw.co.uk Mick Campbell. Michael.Campbell@merthyr.gov.uk

5 3. LED lighting LED for basement and lower levels (City and County Halls). 24 / 7 organisation, potential for good pay-back and carbon reduction. Tye Whithear. Cardiff Council. Tye.Whithear2@cardiff.gov.uk Trisha Pearson. Trisha.Pearson@southwales.pnn.police.uk More cost data on LEDs would be very useful. Looking for data on the use of LED technology across public sector. Problems and benefits. Paul Manley. BG Consult Limited. paul@bg-consult.co.uk Deborah Paramore. Welsh Government. deborah.paramore@wales.gsi.gov.uk 4. Water management Water monitoring previous 3 year billing. Water metering loggers. Water audits via Welsh Water and remedial actions no cost. 10,000 per annum saved. Use of EMS to understand and improve water management. Richard Gotheridge. Arriva Trains Wales. richard.gotheridge@arrivatw.co.uk Dan Ferris. dan.ferris@south-wales.pnn.police.uk Michael Jenkins. Bridgend County Borough Council. Michael.Jenkins@bridgend.gov.uk Lack of quality data. Water dwarfed by energy as a priority. Meter locations. Heavy metal covers. Lee Evans. Carbon Trust. lee.evans@carbontrust.com Michael Jenkins. Bridgend County Borough Council. Michael.Jenkins@bridgend.gov.uk

6 Examples of quick wins through M&T and benchmarking. Currently signed up to Dŵr Cymru AMR. Consumption profiling. Alarm functions / leak detection. Dŵr Cymru services. Water audits with Aqua-Logic. Maes yr Onn Farm Newport. Off grid for all energy and water. Rainwater for drinking and so on. Water audits and advice to building users. We are working on an AMR pilot scheme on our school water meters. Lee Evans. Carbon Trust. lee.evans@carbontrust.com Fitzroy Hutchinson. Aneurin Bevan Fitzroy.Hutchinson@wales.nhs.uk Andy Blackhall. Dŵr Cymru. andy.blackhall@dwrcymru.com Natalie Rees. Sustain Wales. natalie@cynnalcymru.com Peter Morgan. Torfaen County Borough Council. peter.morgan@torfaen.gov.uk How is Carbon Trust helping people or organisations who are in water poverty? Need meaningful benchmarking data. Use of water per person etc. Annual water consumption for estate provision of data by Dŵr Cymru as per energy utilities under CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme. Leak detection. Struggle to get our maintenance / works departments to attend to issues found. 6 monthly billing could this become monthly? We can t get site by site daily usage to help review and improve. I think Welsh Water is only company that doesn t provide? Can we discuss? Billing not linked to readings / metering. Natalie Rees. Sustain Wales. natalie@cynnalcymru.com Dan Ferris. dan.ferris@south-wales.pnn.police.uk Kendal Davies. Carmarthenshire County Council. JKDavies@carmarthenshire.gov.uk Peter Morgan. Torfaen County Borough Council. peter.morgan@torfaen.gov.uk Martin Rowlands. HM Courts and Tribunal Service. martin.rowlands@hmcts.gsi.gov.uk Richard Gotheridge. Arriva Trains Wales. richard.gotheridge@arrivatw.co.uk

7 5. Behaviour change and engagement Energy audits advice. Presentations to staff. Leisure Energy Champion. Important to include staff within the building in the process for change e.g. change of lighting project within building. Prior to work we undertook a leaflet drop and intranet campaign to advise of change. Staff then became involved. National Housing Federation Count Us In Project. Dan Ferris. dan.ferris@south-wales.pnn.police.uk Shea Jones. Community Housing Cymru Group. Shea-Jones@chcymru.org.uk Staff education. How data is presented to users is important. Variety of methods, electronic displays to the right people. Express as FTE workers. Buy-in from staff eco champion role without incentives. Communication, approach / engaging. Methods / mechanisms for engaging and incentivising staff in awareness programmes. Overcome obstacles of engaging a diverse staff population and promote energy awareness and ideas on how to incentivise staff to participate. Incentivisation has been tried between fire stations but wasn t continued. Staff awareness. Staff awareness. Matthew Harries. Bridgend County Borough Council. matthew.harries@bridgend.gov.uk Matthew Lane. Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council. Mathew.Lane@blaenau-gwent.gov.uk Matthew Lane. Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council. Mathew.Lane@blaenau-gwent.gov.uk Alan Humphreys / Anthony Carter South Wales Fire and Rescue Service. a-humphreys@southwales-fire.gov.uk a-carter@southwales-fire.gov.uk

8 We regularly participate in Earth Hour, a switch off around end of March. We have run competitions between buildings. Lunch time competition and publicised the results across Council. Computers shut down automatically Cardiff Met in house software script Now planning a blackout in the civic centre. David Powell. Vale of Glamorgan Council. DPowell@valeofglamorgan.gov.uk Richard James. Cardiff Metropolitan University. rojames@cardiffmet.ac.uk Staff awareness. Marketing. How to make sustainability / energy saving cool?? E.g. Fair Trade, Organic. Jon McGarrigle. Cardiff and Vale University Jon.McGarrigle@wales.nhs.uk Shea Jones. Community Housing Cymru Group. Shea-Jones@chcymru.org.uk

9 28 delegates made commitments to take further action as a result of attending our Energy Management Seminar on 25 July. Below are some examples of these commitments. Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council will plan a Blackout in the town centre after hearing about Sheffield University s blackout during a workshop. Aneurin Bevan Health Board is also going to look into a blackout programme. Delegate from WLGA will be speaking to senior officers to highlight benefits of better energy management. South Wales Police will disseminate information from the Seminar to colleagues. They will also develop an energy league table and targets for reporting purposes. Pembrokeshire County Council will review their automatic monitoring and targeting systems. They will also review how this is reported to senior management. South Wales Fire and Rescue Services will formulate an energy management policy. Cardiff Metropolitan University will look at rationalising the buildings across its estate to reduce energy consumption. Vale of Glamorgan Council will start an energy league table and provide more feedback to each building manager. HM Courts and Tribunal Service will use links and resources provided on our website. 4 delegates will contact Dŵr Cymru / Welsh Water to arrange site surveys and/or receive further information. A Welsh Government delegate will follow up the discussion they started with other delegates during a workshop. NHS Shared Services Partnership will share the information they picked up during the Seminar with NHS colleagues. 3 delegates will find out further information about the Good Practice Exchange.