Insights: Corporate News

Colman’s, part of Unilever, has reduced lighting energy consumption at its Norwich site by a staggering 39%, saving more than £45,000 a year, as a result of a project to convert its outdated fluorescent lighting using retrofit T5 converter, Save It Easy® from Energys Group.

An initiative to encourage home owners to make energy saving improvements to their properties by showing them what others in their community have done has been launched., writes Utility Week.

The potential savings from public sector energy-efficiency projects financed by funding body Salix have passed the £1bn mark, the organisation says – and about a third of that comes from lighting, writes Lux Magazine.

Using LED lamps in retail stores will increase sales, according to a lighting guide published by the building research organisation BRE, writes Lux Magazine.

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is building on the success of Save It Easy® lighting upgrades at three of its schools. Using Salix funding, it is planning a rolling programme to extend the retrofit low-energy lighting to potentially more than 50 schools in the Rotherham area.

Disruption to operations at one of the busiest airfields in the UK manned by over 4300 personnel cannot be undertaken lightly. When Royal Naval Air Station (RNAS) Yeovilton, through Defence