£35k saved at physics lab

An energy champion at Bath University has unearthed savings that will cut the organisation’s electricity bill by £35,000.

Harry Bone, a technician in the Department of Physics and his colleague, technical manager, Alan George, used data gathered for Our Big Energy Challenge to identify key changes to the running of research laboratory building ‘3 West North’ (3WN).

These included closing down selected pieces of equipment at weekends along with other measures that could be made without risking the experiments and teaching work that takes place there.

3WN contains an array of lasers, lathes and furnaces, draw towers, a lecture theatre and classrooms. It is an energy intensive building that previously had an annual electricity bill of around £70,000.

Now, thanks to the efforts of our energy champions the university will save 380,000 kWh or 160 tonnes CO2 every year, worth £35,000 at today’s prices. 

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