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  • Energy audit grants information sheet
    Fact sheets and brochures
    13 May 2009

    If you don't know how you use it, how can you manage it?

    Energy is a significant cost for many New Zealand businesses, ranking alongside overheads such as rates, insurance and rentals. The difference with energy costs is that, with good management and knowledgeable advice, they can be controlled and often reduced. An energy or building design audit grant from EECA can help your business identify energy savings opportunities.

    Download this attachment for more information about energy audit grants.

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  • Improving office lighting: technical guide
    Fact sheets and brochures
    1 March 2009

    A technical overview of how energy use can be reduced through using your office lighting more effectively. It includes suggestions for improvement that either have no or little cost associated with them.

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  • Improving industrial lighting: technical guide
    Fact sheets and brochures
    1 March 2009

    Good lighting design and control can save up to 75% of industrial buildings lighting costs.

    This technical guide outlines two key ways that industrial lighting operating costs can be reduced. It includes a range of no cost/low cost actions that can be undertaken as well as several actions for reducing energy use associated with industrial lighting which have a longer payback period.

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  • Efficiently managing compressed air: technical guide
    Fact sheets and brochures
    1 March 2009

    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.

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  • Energy audit grants information sheet
    Fact sheets and brochures
    13 May 2009

    If you don't know how you use it, how can you manage it?

    Energy is a significant cost for many New Zealand businesses, ranking alongside overheads such as rates, insurance and rentals. The difference with energy costs is that, with good management and knowledgeable advice, they can be controlled and often reduced. An energy or building design audit grant from EECA can help your business identify energy savings opportunities.

    Download this attachment for more information about energy audit grants.

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  • Technical Guide - Heat Recovery Applications
    Fact sheets and brochures
    17 September 2009

    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.

     

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  • Hydro energy on your farm
    Fact sheets and brochures
    26 August 2009

    There is a lot of potential for small-scale hydro schemes on New Zealand rivers, streams and even irrigation systems. Hydro power is one of the cheapest ways of generating electricity on a small-scale. Small schemes (typically less than 10MW) also have less environmental impact than large ones. This guide to small-scale hydro schemes is aimed at a farming audience, and includes practical examples.

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  • Woody biomass factsheet
    Fact sheets and brochures
    1 June 2005

    Biomass energy from wood (woody biomass) is a clean and renewable energy source. Because fossil fuels are likely to become increasingly expensive, woody biomass can play an important role by providing energy in the form of heat, electricity or transport fuels. Woody biomass is effectively a store of solar energy.
    As a renewable energy source that can be grown and used sustainably, burning woody biomass has almost zero net greenhouse effect as the carbon dioxide given off during combustion is
    absorbed by the growth of the next crop of woody biomass.

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  • Action sheet 3 - Saving energy in business: lighting
    Fact sheets and brochures
    3 February 2010

    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.

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  • Action sheet 4 - Saving energy in business: equipment and appliances
    Fact sheets and brochures
    3 February 2010

    Most New Zealand businesses now rely on IT - and it's still the fastest growing area of
    business energy use. Computers (including servers and data centres) account for about
    15% of the energy used in office buildings. But typically nearly half of the energy used by a
    computer is simply wasted as heat.

    Download this action sheet for advice on free and low-cost ways to cut the amount of energy used by workplace equipment and appliances - bringing instant cost savings for your business.

     

     

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