Nyköping Community, SWEDEN

The Challenge: The energy usage of the Community’s facilities (schools, retirement homes, offices, a heated swimming pool, and industrial sites) was too high and the staff had no control over lowering it. The Community wanted to improve the comfort levels of its facilities as well as to reduce their energy consumption by 10% from 2006 but had no budget for a full facilities modernization.

The Solution: An energy services company – member of eu.bac – offered the Community an EPC covering 123 of its buildings totaling an area of 257,000 m2. Improvements include the installation of a Building Management System in all buildings, new heat pumps and solar panels, sensor-controlled lighting and heating/cooling, etc.

The Results and Benefits: the project resulted in a 21% cut in the Community’s energy bill (saving 4,300 tonnes of CO2 each year) as well as savings on maintenance.

Royal Gwent Hospital, UK

The Challenge: improving the aged infrastructure and carrying out other innovation in a hospital complex covering 800 beds,15 operating theatres and a specialist ophthalmic unit.

The Solution: An energy services company – member of eu.bac – was engaged in a 15 year scheme, introducing an CHP, 3 new steam boilers, a lighting retrofit and water conservation measures.

The Results and Benefits: The hospital now has 620,000 euros of guaranteed annual savings. In 2004, it won the NHS Best Practice Award for Energy Efficiency.

IBM, UK

The Challenge: in order to comply with its stated corporate policy of “ensuring the responsible use of energy throughout our business” IBM wanted to (in short) achieve a 4% corporate energy conservation target at no extra cost.

The Solution: with the help of an energy services company – member of eu.bac –  IBM was able to develop long-term solutions in intelligent energy procurement and waste reduction, as well as launching an internal campaign to educate and persuade employees to reduce their energy consumption.

The Results and Benefits: IBM conserved 52,764 MWh of energy in 2002, reduced its CO2 emissions by nearly 38,000 tonnes over two years, and achieved a 45% reduction in waste in 2001. 41 IBM UK sites now use 100% green energy, and the company has been accredited by the National Energy Foundation for demonstrating its commitment to higher environmental standards.

City of Berlin, GERMANY

The Challenge: In 1995, the city of Berlin launched an energy-saving strategy with an obligation to reduce CO2 emissions.

The Solution: An energy services company – member of eu.bac – prepared an Energy Saving Partnership (ESP) with energy management solutions for 85 properties around the city

Results and Benefits: CO2 emissions were reduced by 25% per year, corresponding to roughly 16,200 tonnes of CO2. Moreover, annual energy cost saving totals €2.848 million.

Austrian Federal Estate Buildings

Modernizing 3000 properties through ESPCs resulted in total energy cost savings of €6,9 million (=20%) per year. CO2 emissions were reduced by 40,000 tonnes per year.

US Federal Government

In the United States, more than 400 ESPC projects have been awarded by 19 different federal agencies in 46 states.  $1.9 billion was invested in federal facilities via ESPCs, saving 16 trillion Btu annually. This is equivalent to the energy used by a city of approximately 450,000 people during one year.