Fact sheets and brochures

This technical guide focuses on air compressors. It reviews the general issues involved with optimising a compressed air system and identifies some of the key steps businesses can take to create some easily-won savings.

Virtually every industrial process generates waste heat - the challenge is to recover this heat and make use of it economically. Waste heat can be seen in shimmering boiler flues or steaming waste water discharges.

Heat recovery captures waste heat and uses it to eliminate or reduce energy required in other areas of a process or site. This practice reduces a business's overall energy bill and greenhouse gas emissions as well as improving profitability.

This fact sheet provides information on solar water heating systems.

Many businesses could shave up to 40% off their lighting costs.

In a typical office building, about a quarter of the energy used goes on lighting. If you lease
office space and pay for ‘tenant energy' only, lighting can make up more than half of your
energy bills. There are a number of ways to reduce the energy used for lighting - and many
of these cost little or nothing.

Download this action sheet for advice on lighting for your business.