Anna Stobbs

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Anna Stobbs Richard DunningThe Centre for
Sustainable Energy
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Course outline

• Energy Champions
• Introductions
• What is Our Big Energy Challenge?
• Why save energy?
• Energy awareness plus
• What you can do at work
• What you can do at home
• The energy walk-around
• Motivating people to save energy
• Presentation skills
• Next steps

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What is Our Big Energy Challenge?
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Our big energy challenge

• Key aim
• A minimum 10 reduction in energy consumption
  over three years
• Two-pronged approach
• Change staff awareness and actions
• Monitor and target energy using high-tech
  monitoring equipment you cant manage what you
  cant measure!

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Background

• Funded by the Treasurys Invest to Save Budget
• Creates sustainable improvements in delivering
  public services
• Investment is provided in return for reform
• Centre for Sustainable Energy working together
  with BNES Local Strategic Partnership
  sponsored by DEFRA

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Partners

• Avon and Somerset Constabulary (Bath North East
  Somerset District)
• Bath North East Somerset Council
• Bath North East Somerset Council for Voluntary
  Services
• Bath North East Somerset Group of the Avon
  Local Councils Association
• Bath North East Somerset Primary Care Trust
• Bath North East Somerset Racial Equality
  Council
• Bath Spa University
• City of Bath College
• Norton Radstock College
• Royal United Hospital Trust
• Somer Housing Trust
• University of Bath

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Benefits

• Benefits
• 3.5m saved by 2012
• 5,000 tonnes CO2 saved per annum (from year 3
  onwards)

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Responsibilities

• Roles
• Energy Manager/Facilities
• Monitoring and managing
• Energy Advocate/Champion
• Promotion and energy awareness raising
• All staff
• Saving energy!

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The Energy Manager

• The role of the Energy Manager
• Monitoring energy use
• Reporting and analysing energy use
• Identifying opportunities for saving energy
• Assisting all staff to save energy

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The Energy Champion/Advocate

• The role of the Energy Champion
• Raising energy awareness
• Promoting energy saving
• Conducting energy walk-arounds
• Helping to monitor and report energy use
• Helping and advising others
• Providing feedback to staff and managers

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Why Save Energy?
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Why save energy?

• In my view, climate change is the most severe
  problem we are facing today, more serious even
  than the threat of terrorism
• Sir David King
• (UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser)

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Why save energy?

• Sir David Attenborough
• I do not have any doubt at all. I think climate
  change is the major challenge facing the world.
• How could I look my grandchildren in the eye
  and say I knew about this and I did nothing?

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Why save energy?

• Climate change
• the evidence
• The melting of Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets
• Glacial change e.g. the Riggs Glacier
• Sea levels worldwide are rising

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Why save energy?

• What causes climate change?
• Greenhouse gasses such as methane and CO2
• CO2 levels are the main cause of climate change
• 90 of CO2 emissions released into the atmosphere
  are as a result of burning fossil fuels (oil,
  gas, coal)

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Why save energy?

• What are fossil fuels?
• Fuels that come from the remains of creatures and
  plants that lived millions of years ago
• Oil, gas coal
• The main cause of CO2 emissions the main
  greenhouse gas

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Why save energy?

• Why greenhouse?
• The term for the effect that atmospheric gases
  have when the sun heats the earths surface

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Why save energy?

• The evidence of
• climate change
• Ice cores

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Why save energy?

• Recent reports and targets on climate change
• The UK Energy White Paper (February 2003)
• Cut carbon dioxide levels by 20 on 1997/8 levels
  by 2010
• Cut carbon dioxide levels by 60 on 1990 levels
  by 2050
• The Stern Review (October 2006)
• Leading economist stated we have to act now on
  climate change or face devastating economic
  consequences

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Why save energy?

• Implications of climate change

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Why save energy?

• Implications of climate change

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Why save energy?
Implications of climate change
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Why save energy?

• Saving energy at work
• Improves your organisations public image
• Improves your working environment the
  feelgood factor
• Lower energy use lower energy costs which helps
  fund better services
• Doesnt deflect monies since January 2006
• Gas prices have risen by 37
• Electricity prices have risen by 33
• Petrol/diesel has risen by 9

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Why save energy?

• In UK offices
• 30 of the energy consumed is wasted, costing
  millions of pounds in lost revenue every year
• You could help your employer cut energy costs by
  up to 20 by employing easy measures that may not
  cost anything
• Source The Carbon Trust

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Why save energy?
West of England's Carbon Emissions by Source
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Why save energy?

• Bath N.E. Somerset
• 1,161,000 tonnes of CO2 per year
• Thats 6.8 tonnes per person
• Nearly all energy is imported to the area so
  every spent leaves the local economy

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Why save energy?
 
So how does Bath N.E. Somerset compare?
 
Domestic (heat and light) energy
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Why save energy?
Each tonne of CO2 approximately 1 hot air
balloon Thats 1.2 million balloons for Bath
N.E. Somerset alone!
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Why save energy?
In Bath N.E. Somerset thats nearly 5 balloons
of damaging CO2 per person for purely domestic
and personal travel (and another 2 for work)
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Energy Awareness Plus
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What you can do at work

• Take responsibility for the
• energy you waste at work
• Lighting
• Electrical equipment/appliances
• Water
• Refuse
• Heating and cooling
• Refrigeration
• Travelling

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What you can do at work

• Lighting
• Make use of natural light where possible
• Only turn on lighting in the areas where you need
  it
• Turn off lights when you leave a room / area
• Lighting an office overnight wastes enough energy
  to heat water for 1000 cups of tea

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What you can do at work

• Lighting additional
• Ensure switches are labelled clearly
• Make sure lamps and fittings are cleaned on a
  regular basis
• Arrange for unnecessary fittings to be
  disconnected/removed
• More efficient lighting means a reduction in the
  need for air conditioning during the summer (an
  additional energy saving)

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What you can do at work

• Electrical equipment/appliances
• Dont leave appliances on standby
• Some appliances use around a third of the energy
  that they would use when on whilst they are on
  standby
• 70 of the energy consumption of a computer is
  the monitor turn it off when youre not using
  it
• A PC monitor switched off overnight saves enough
  energy to laser print 800 pages
• Flat screens use significantly less energy than
  standard monitors

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What you can do at work

• Electrical equipment/appliances
• Turn on equipment only when needed
• A typical PC which is left switched on all the
  time will use 50 more energy in a year than
  turning it off in the evening 500,000 for
  every 10,000 PCs
• Photocopy in batches
• Turn off all non essential equipment overnight
• A photocopier left on overnight uses enough
  energy to produce over 1500 copies
• Last one out switch it off!

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What you can do at work

• Electrical equipment/appliances
• additional
• Activate powersave features of equipment like fax
  machines, photocopiers and printers
• Clearly label equipment that can be switched off
• Make sure staff know how to print double-sided
• Keep a tray of used paper next to the printer for
  printing on the other side

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What you can do at work

• Water
• If water is scalding at the tap then it is being
  stored at too high a temperature
• Report it
• Make sure taps are fully turned off after use
• Repair/report dripping taps
• A tap dripping at one drop per second wastes
  enough water for 12 mugs of coffee every day
• In a year this is the equivalent to the average
  personal supply for 11 days

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What you can do at work

• Water additional
• Help to raise awareness of wastage through water
  use
• Every 1m3 of tapwater requires 1kWh of energy to
  produce
• Remember to check toilets and taps are working
  correctly and not wasting water
• Water hippos for cisterns may be appropriate

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What you can do at work

• Waste less
• The four local authorities dispose of 540,000
  tonnes of municipal waste per year
• currently dependent on road and rail transfer to
  landfill sites outside the area

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What you can do at work

• Waste hierarchy
• Highest priority
• Eliminate
• Reduce
• Re-use
• Recycle
• Energy Recovery
• Dispose
• Lowest priority

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What you can do at work

• Reduce, reuse and recycle
• paper
• Most of the energy used in paper making is the
  pulping needed to turn wood into paper
• Recycling paper involves around 28 lower energy
  consumption than virgin paper and uses less water
• Using one tonne of recycled paper saves 15 trees

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What you can do at work

• Recycle cardboard
• Every tonne of cardboard recycled saves 17 trees,
  over 31,000 litres of water, 1.8 cubic metres of
  landfill and 4,100 kW hours of electricity
• Equal to the yearly electricity consumption of an
  average household

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What you can do at work

• Waste additional
• Help to raise awareness reduced waste reduced
  energy consumption
• Almost every product and item that we use took
  energy to produce and deliver to us
• Each time we throw something away, energy is
  required to manufacture a replacement and
  transport it to its point of use
• energy is also required to dispose of the item

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What you can do at work

• To recap
• Minimising waste saves energy
• Reusing products saves energy
• Recycling saves energy

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What you can do at work

• Heating and cooling
• Learn how to correctly use your heating/cooling
  system controls
• Do not allow furniture to block radiators
• Dress appropriately
• Dont use supplementary heating or cooling,
  e.g. portable heaters or air-con units, unless
  absolutely essential

 
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What you can do at work

• Heating and cooling
• Avoid opening windows when the heating or air
  conditioning is on
• An open office window loses enough energy in a
  day to produce 250 fleece jackets
• Use blinds to control solar glare and
  over-heating
• Avoid the use of comfort cooling where possible

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What you can do at work

• Heating and cooling additional
• Report heating or air conditioning that is on in
  unused spaces (e.g. store cupboards, corridors)
• Is the heating at a comfortable temperature a
  quote by a maintenance officer
• The boilers must be working efficiently nobody
  has complained about being cold

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What you can do at work

• Heating and cooling additional
• Report heating or air conditioning that is on in
  unused spaces (e.g. store cupboards, corridors)
• Is the heating at a comfortable temperature a
  quote by a maintenance officer
• The boilers must be working efficiently nobody
  has complained about being cold

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What you can do at work

• Refrigeration
• Refrigerators usually run throughout the year
• Request timers to be fitted on equipment like
  drinks machines
• Label machines than can be switched off at the
  end of the day if time switches are not available
• Location impacts on the efficiency of the cooling
  process

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What you can do at work

• Refrigeration
• Coolers and refrigerators are often set to a
  lower temperature than required
• Water coolers should be set at 12-15 C
• Refrigerators should be set at 2-4 C
• Encourage staff not to leave the fridge/freezer
  door open for longer than necessary
• Ensure the fridge/freezer is defrosted regularly

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What you can do at work

• Travelling
• Do you need to go?
• Video conferencing
• Do you need to fly?
• In the car
• Monitor fuel (and costs)
• Follow tips for better fuel consumption
• Do fewer miles
• Look after your car

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What you can do at home

• Tips for the home
• Electrical equipment/appliances
• Cooking
• Heating
• Hot water
• Reduce heat loss from the home

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What you can do at home
Reduce heat loss typical losses are
Roof 25
Walls 35
Draughts 15
Windows 10
Floor 15
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What you can do at home

• Electrical equipment/appliances
• Buy energy efficient appliances
• Unplug chargers when not in use
• Leaving a mobile phone charger plugged in costs
  around 25 per year. If each UK house does this,
  thats enough energy to power 66,000 homes
• Fill up the washing machine or dishwasher, use
  economy programmes (and if possible dont use a
  tumble dryer)

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What you can do at home

• Cooking
• Only boil as much water as you need
• Put lids on pans when cooking youll be able to
  turn down the heat
• Use the right size pan for the food and cooker
  hob
• Make sure the flame is under the pan, not around
  the outside
• Use a kettle to boil water for cooking
• Use a toaster rather than the grill to make toast

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What you can do at home

• Heating
• Fit shelves above your radiators
• Put reflective panels behind your radiators
• Turn room thermostat down by 1oC
• This could cut your heating bills by up to 10
  per cent and save you around 40-50 per year
• Close curtains at dusk and tuck them behind your
  radiators

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What you can do at home

• Hot water
• Set your hot water cylinder thermostat to 60C
• Fit a hot water tank jacket, it only costs around
  10
• Shower instead of bathing
• A five minute shower uses 35 litres of water,
  compared to a bath that uses 80 litres (but
  beware, power showers can use more!)

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Further information

• At home
• Contact your local Energy Efficiency Advice
  Centre on FREEPHONE 0800 512 012
• www.est.org.uk/myhome
• At work
• Peter Phelps x6085

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Remember

• If you only do five things
• Turn off
• your monitor when you leave your desk
• your PC at night
• lights when theyre not needed
• equipment thats not in use (like photocopiers,
  printers etc)
• and report any problems

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The energy walk around

• The best way of seeing use and implementing
• change
• Use a checklist
• Heating and cooling
• Lighting
• Office equipment
• Kitchens/rest areas
• Water
• Vary the times
• High use
• Low use
• When there is a change
• During normal work hours and after everyone has
  left for the day

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The energy walk around

• The best way of seeing use and implementing
• change
• Visit every area
• Identify obvious waste
• Unnecessary use
• Poorly controlled use
• Inefficient use
• Inappropriate use
• Take appropriate action
• Involve others
• Ownership

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The energy walk around

• Monitor and review
• Monitor staff behaviour using the checklist
• Review and compare results each time
• Work with your Energy Manager to measure the
  impact of energy saving behaviour
• Ensure support
• Work with others, e.g. HR, Energy Manager,
  Department Managers
• Give staff responsibility for their energy use
• Involve and motivate all staff

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Motivating People to Save Energy
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Motivating people to save energy

• How to save energy
• Awareness
• How can I save energy?
• What is the policy on energy?
• Motivation
• Why save energy?
• What is in it for me?
• Organisation and personal values

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Motivating people to save energy

• What motivates staff to save energy?
• Environmental issues
• The home (behavioural)
• Recognition of achievement
• Something for others
• Energy efficiency as a corporate value

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Motivating people to save energy

• Gain commitment
• You can do this by
• Demonstrating commitment yourself
• Showing appreciation and respect
• Keeping staff informed
• Publicising results and celebrating success
• Challenging teams to reach the next level
• Having fun!

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Motivating people to save energy

• Keep staff informed
• Regular contact will
• Keep messages consistent
• Help staff to undertake new tasks
• Identify the need for further training
• Provide a forum for feedback
• Underpin team-building and commitment

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Motivating people to save energy

• Ways of keeping staff informed and involving them
• Leaflets
• Newsletters
• Emails
• Presentations or updates at meetings
• Posters
• Exhibitions
• Talking with staff
• Ideas sessions/action planning exercises
• Clarify ownership of actions
• Regular contact

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Motivating people to save energy

• Tips on providing information
• Consider the frame of mind of your audience
• Try out your materials or presentation on
  colleagues or less-informed people first
• Plan carefully. Give yourself enough time
• Use language your audience will understand
  forget the jargon!

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Motivating people to save energy

• Tips on providing information
• Use existing channels of communication
• Think about what response you want, and how you
  will handle that response
• Be open and clear about your role
• Report back to participants celebrate successes

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Presentation Skills
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A beginning

• Make the rite impreshen
• The 1st 10 mins will make the day

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This session

• What makes a good event?
• Why and how do people learn?
• Interactive and passive learning
• Controlling the group
• Powerpoint and other visual aids
• Timing and housekeeping

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Why and how people learn

• Intrinsic/extrinsic motivation to learn
• Ways/methods of learning
• Visual/audio/kinaesthetic learning
• Barriers to learning and listening

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What makes a good event?

• Organisation
• Preparation
• Participation
• Learning what you expected to learn
• An effective environment

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Managing the group

• Methods of involving the group
• Confidence techniques
• Dealing with awkward people
• Ways of getting their attention
• Handling stupid comments
• Body language and communication

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PowerPoint and other visual aids

• What are visual aids and why they are useful
• Pros and cons of different visual aids
• How to design them effectively
• How to use PowerPoint hints and tips

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Too much technical info and too dry
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Too dull!
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Other common mistakes
Too big Too small Too colourful Animation over
complex The sentence is way to long and
convoluted, there is, surely, no need for all
these words when I could just have explained to
you the point of what I was saying and just hade
a reminder bullet here oh and by the way when
do I get to take a breath? Sound Remember the
audience keeping it simple!
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Timing and housekeeping

• What to do if sessions run over
• How to pull the group back to a point/topic
  intervention methods
• Adapting things and thinking on the go

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Next Steps
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Remember

• If you only do three things
• Help your colleagues to save energy by
• Making sure they know what to do reminder
  posters and stickers can help
• Monitoring energy use by conducting energy
  walk-arounds and give feedback
• Keep up the communication with staff, and
  celebrate success enjoy it

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Thank you and evaluation