Consumer Case Study

Leicester City Council

Prakash PatelTeam Leader –Energy Management

The Energy Management Team administers more than 3,000 individual energy accounts each month. Close monitoring of these resources is absolutely essential if costs and consumption are to be controlled properly. Monitoring and target setting represents a very low cost method of saving energy and yields a very high rate of success.

Leicester City Council spends over £8.5 million a year on energy and water for its premises. Its building stock is extremely varied and includes swimming pools, schools, offices, libraries, museums and district heating for housing estates.

Leicester City Council

Leicester City CouncilLeicester City Council has some very ambitious

environmental Commitments to reduce energy and water in its buildings

‘Leicester is committed to having the amount of energy it was using in 1990 by 2025 and aims to get 20% of all its energy from renewable systems by 2020’

For many years Leicester City Council has played an active role in encouraging and supporting measures which, protect our environment. This was recognised in 1990, when Leicester became Britain's first “Environment City”.

Leicester City Council has since adopted a number of "green" policies, ensuring that its own services and activities meet the high standards it encourages others to adopt. 

The AMR Journey

Looking for a technical solution that would enable us to re-charge the different tenants occupying these premises each month

Industrial Premises with 27 Individual Units

Pilot rollout across key City Centre Council Buildings

The gas usage does not reflect the buildings operational hours (Office hours). The gas usage is ‘ON’ constantly and never shuts

‘OFF’ even on holidays. (WASTAGE)

Wastage / Opportunities

Faulty Controls

Radio Antenna

MetersData Bird

Local Logger

Central Receiver / Data Logger

GPRS

Computer

• Rollout of AMR across our portfolio

• Participated and managed a number of projects that focused on AMR Technology

• Improved existing tools and processes to make things easier - automation

• Develop tools and learnt different way to communicate message

Leicester City Council / Leicester Energy Agency

Projects

Past Projects

• Carbon Trust – Advanced Metering for SMEs (includes Schools)

• Intelligent Energy Europe – aIM4SMEs

Current Projects

• European Regional Development Fund – Reducing Carbon Emissions in SMEs

• SMARTSPACES• Heat Metering Pilot for LCC Domestic premises

Measure Analyse ActionsHalf Hourly Data:• Electricity• Gas• Water• Heat• Temperature

Energy Management:• Exception

Reporting• Standard Reports• Bill Validation• Benchmarking

Savings

Empower Organisations to Make the Right Decisions:• Operational• Maintenance • Investment

End to End System

Bureau Service Customer On-line Access

Constant Targets

Weather Dependent Targets

Signature Targets

The above targets also include a calendar of applicable days

Types of Exceptions & Alarms

Bureau Service

Signature Profile

High / Low usage Alarms

Continuously learns the signature consumption profile –

using the shape of past consumption profile to predict

future consumption

Weather Dependent Profile

Heating manually switched to the ‘ON’

position constant

Baseload Analysis

Occupied Period

Unoccupied Period

Unoccupied Period

- League Tables Electricity, Gas & Water

Compares consumption over unoccupied / occupancy periods

Saving 4,818 cubic metres per year (£11,755)

The above profile shows wastage; The building is occupied between 9am and 3.30pm, but the gas boilers were firing up at approx. 11:00pm and shut off at around 3:00pm (Mon – Fri). Off at the weekend.

Report Formats

Annual Saving of 240,000 kWh & £18,000

Variable Speed Drives

Pool Covers

Boiler Replacement

Annual Saving of 70,000 kWh & £2,200

Customer On-line Access

• Leicester City Council and De Montfort University (DMU) are key partners in a major new EU-wide research initiative to significantly reduce the energy consumption of public buildings.

• SMARTSPACES is a three-year project that will enable public authorities across Europe to significantly improve the management of energy in their buildings by finding new ways to monitor and give feedback to building users about energy consumption. The project – with a value of more than seven million euros includes 11 pilot sites – three in the UK including Leicester - with more than 550 buildings in eight countries.

• The aim of this project is to develop ICT solution to improve energy efficiency behavioural charge (good housekeeping) in pilot public buildings through data visualisation. Leicester City Council and DMU will be looking at how we would display energy information in these buildings to enable professionals / staff / visitors comment on why they think the daily/weekly energy consumption in that building is higher / lower than expected (early intervention).

• Leicester City Council has partnered with DMU to develop systems to engage with users, managers and visitors of 20 public buildings including Schools, Leisure Centres, Community Centres, Offices, etc.

www.smartspaces.eu

Project pilot sites

Started on 1 January 2012Duration: 3 years

Participants• 11 partner sites in 11 cities in 8

countries:• United Kingdom, France, Germany,

Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Turkey, Serbia• Operated by 26 partners

Simplicity through sophistication

Advanced consumption modelling produces a reliable, simple indicator. This is used to generate “smartfaces”. The key information is provided in an immediate, user-friendly format. There is no need for interpretation, users can absorb the information in a few seconds.

Community Building

Dynamic content creates interest Report problems Identify solutions Active discussions Show off best practice

Build a community Makes co-ordinated action

possible A small number of active

users The majority of users are

passive

Knowing what an organisation is

consuming at any given time is one of the most

effective ways of achieving savings.

“If you can’t measure it you cant manage it” !

Knowledge is Money!