The power of the ocean is being harnessed to save money on business electricity bills.
Business electricity customers will be well aware that the power of the ocean is being increasingly utilised to generate renewable energy.
But for one organisation in Southampton, they are using seawater in a rather different way to reduce their commercial electricity costs.
The National Oceanography Centre is reducing its carbon emissions and conserving energy with a new seawater cooling system. This makes the best of the centre’s dockside positioning to reduce electricity consumption and support the air conditioning system inside the building. The building itself contains 1,500 rooms including laboratories, cold stores and research aquaria – all of which have particular temperature requirements.
Funded by the National Oceanography Centre’s owners the Natural Environment Research Council, the sea water project is one of several initiatives designed to reduce business energy consumption at the centre.
While using sea water to reduce air conditioning costs is probably a little ambitious for most small and medium sized businesses, there are many ways that you can save money on business energy costs.
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Picture credit – Wave – Golspie North Beach by foxypar4.
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Tags: Business Electricity, Business Electricity Prices, Green energy
