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Watermatic Offers Cost Effective Route To Reduce CO2 Emissions – And Associated Costs Relating To Carbon Reduction Commitment
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Any business using more than 6000 megawatts of electricity needs to register on the Government’s Carbon Reduction Commitment scheme (CRC’s) by April 2010. The CRC is a cap and trade scheme introduced by the Government with a target of reducing carbon emissions by one-third by 2050. The scheme demands that around 5,000 organisations, those that consume over 6 GWh/year and who operate half hourly metering join, and participants will have to purchase carbon allowances based on the Information Packs they receive from the Environment Agency.
Initially organisations will need to accurately monitor their energy use emissions and record that information into a database designed to perform all monitoring and targeting functions. Whilst this starting point targets the biggest users of electricity, its just that – a starting point with the aim of the scheme is to encourage business across the board to use less energy and generate less in the way of CO2 emissions. It’s the start of ‘the polluter pays’ tax approach that will gather pace here in the UK and across Europe in the next five years.
Most businesses know the CRC is coming – very few have done much about it yet! The time to prepare is now and Watermatic, part of the Sentinel Group, offers many large businesses a way of reducing their energy consumption by reducing limescale build up in their systems that results in a need to use far more electricity than would be required for clean, scale free plant and hot water systems – in particular, hotels, nursing homes, leisure centres, food processing businesses, offices and retail outlets – are realising that Watermatic has a proven solution to at least part of their immediate problems.
So how much electricity does a business use? Debenhams, for example, uses 233,000 megawatts of electricity a year in its retail outlets and offices and at £12 per tonne for a so called ‘allowance tonne’ of CO2, that’s some bill to pay at the end of the year. Not surprisingly, as a business, Debenhams is looking for ways of reducing its energy usage and carbon footprint, to reduce its CRC’s bill.
Rob Hill who heads up the Watermatic Division : “Businesses in the UK are suddenly faced with a major incentive to reduce electricity usage and to reduce their overall carbon footprint. They knew it was coming but it appears to have been put on the backburner by many businesses that are now having to face up to the consequences of not preparing or acting quickly enough.
“We can help businesses through the supply of our KAL-GUARD+ equipment packages which have been independently proven to reduce scale build up in water systems by up to 80%.”
Straightforward to install, KAL-GUARD+ is an in-line powered electrolytic water treatment device that delivers a proportional release of Zinc to manage limescale within a system. The unit incorporates a simple to use, yet sophisticated controller to match the level of dosing to suit the systems water hardness conditions producing a measurable “residual” effect throughout the system, and as a result in independent testing at Cranfield University has been shown to reduce limescale formation on heat transfer surfaces by up to 80 percent.
Amongst businesses that have already installed KAL-GUARD+ equipment to protect their systems and reduce their energy consumption are well known names such as Birds Eye, BMW, Whitbread, Asda and KrispyCreme Doughnuts!
WATERMATIC provides products to combat limescale and corrosion in commercial and industrial premises. As well as being ideal for use in the hospitality and leisure industries, KAL-GUARD+ is also successfully used in factories, nursing and care homes and government buildings across the UK and Europe. The company implements an ongoing research and development programme to create innovative solutions that fulfil the requirements of many organisations for low cost of ownership with minimum environmental impact. None of the WATERMATIC products use chemicals or produce harmful waste products – but they do ensure the maintenance of a system’s cleanliness and energy efficiency and have WRAS accreditation.
WATERMATIC can provide lime-scale water treatment for up to eight-inch pipework (216mm). Physical corrosion protection is also available as 'in-line' units and are effective against corrosion in steel and galvanised steel pipework as well as mixed metal systems.
Water is the very life-blood of a building and, like the real thing, it has to circulate effectively and perform efficiently. Corrosion and limescale all pose a threat to a building's water systems but with the appropriate preventative measures such as KAL-GUARD+, water systems can continue to provide optimum performance throughout their life.
Rob Hill again: “The Government’s Carbon Reduction Commitment scheme (CRC’s) is concentrating the minds of many major companies that will be immediately part of the scheme from early 2010 and many smaller companies are aware that they will be part of the scheme before too much longer. It simply makes sense to prepare in good time and take actions now that will contribute to the reductions in carbon emissions for which you are responsible, reducing the costs to business and vitally reducing the costs of maintenance now!”
