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Leonard Cheshire Disability and Energy & Environmental Systems Limited
Background:
Leonard Cheshire Disability is the UK’s largest voluntary sector provider of services to disabled people. The charity operates nearly 100 residential services in the UK, providing support for a wide range of clients including people with physical and sensory impairments, people with learning disabilities, children, older people and people with an acquired brain injury. The charity has recently set up a group within its property division to investigate ways to save energy within its property portfolio. Following an approach to this group by Energy & Environmental Systems Limited (E&ES), Leonard Cheshire Disability chose to trial the eco-eclipse boiler energy management system in its Heatherley service in Copthorne, near Crawley in Sussex. Heatherley is a residential service with 40 rooms in a rural location, providing services for physically disabled adults. The site consists of the main house, with communal rooms, nursing quarters, relatives’ rooms, activity areas and dining rooms; and two ground-floor only wings which contain the residents’ bedrooms. The main house and both wings are each heated by a separate boiler system. All the boilers are oil fired. E&ES trialled the eco-eclipse in the main house. Results:
Following a month-long ‘day-on, day-off’ trial, the eco-eclipse system recorded savings of 25.3%. After the success of this test, Leonard Cheshire Disability asked E&ES Ltd to install the eco-eclipse system to manage the other two boilers in Heatherley, and to survey a significant number of other sites across the UK to identify which would be suitable for eco-eclipse installation. As a result of this nationwide site survey Leonard Cheshire Disability commissioned E&ES to install the eco-eclipse in a further 13 of the charity’s sites, taking the total number of eco-eclipse systems installed to 17. E&ES estimate the installation programme will save an average of 19.6% in fuel costs, with payback achieved over an average 16 months. “Through the trial at Heatherley, the eco-eclipse has proven its ability to save Leonard Cheshire Disability significant amounts of fuel, and therefore noticeably reduce our carbon footprint. E&ES’s site survey service to identify further properties in our portfolio where the eco-eclipse would be effective (and those where it would have no benefit) provided excellent added value. We are very pleased to be extending the eco-eclipse’s fuel, money and energy saving benefits to a number of other residential services in our portfolio.” Roy Fairbairn, Building Services & Energy Conservation Manager, National Development Team, Leonard Cheshire Disability If you would like further information about our systems then please review our website at www.eco-eclipse.com or contact Martin Howe (01280 816927), Bill Hensley (07767 823424) or Sarah Bamfield (07825 943358) Energy & Environmental Systems Limited, |
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