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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.

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.

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.

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.