EV charger sustainability
All tenants and visitors have free use of the EV Charger ‘farm’ at Claydon Court. There are only 6 chargers as the moment but this will be doubled to 12 in the coming months. Support and s...
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Tag: measuring carbon
Flaming June …
Disappointed (to put it mildly) to discover that recent electrical compliance work resulted in our PV Panels being inadvertently switched off for three months. The error was only discovered during pre...
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Energy analysis 2024
Linked is the brief Energy Report produced for Claydon Court. It confirms two things … First, that property reductions emissions have plateaued following investments that have seen EPC ratings m...
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EV Charger conundrum
A new development at our Claydon Court HQ is the expansion of our EV Charger ‘farm’ from 3 to 6 with the capacity to double again from 6 to 12 when needed. New Sevadis chargers allow preci...
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Measuring is … Autonomous
Carbon Champions has a LOT of unique features, and this week we’re featuring autonomy (value 13 of 94). What this means is that carbon champions can measure, offset and reduce carbon emiss...
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Less is MOR
Carbon neutral / carbon net zero / carbon balanced essentially mean the same i.e. measuring, offsetting and reducing carbon emissions. Measuring emissions currently covers energy, transport and ...
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Energy COST over last decade
The below chart shows the cost of electricity used at our Claydon Court HQ. This is rising slowly and will rise steeply – very steeply – in 2022. There’s not much more we can do to imp...
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Energy EMISSIONS over last decade
Another interesting chart is Claydon Court energy emissions. These are steadily falling as the national grid uses more renewables – a rare bit of good news. We offset with World Land Trust (WLT) wh...
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Energy USE over last decade
We’ve measured electricity use at our Claydon Court HQ since 2009 as the below chart confirms. 2009 and 2010 were pre-extension (Orchard Suite) and are adjusted upwards to reflect this. The dip i...
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Net zero by 20:30 not 2030
Is it possible for a small organisation to become carbon neutral by 20.30 in the evening, rather than 2030 in the future? Yes it is. And that’s why we’re sharing our simple MBR model with ...
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Energy use in 2020
Mixed news from our Claydon Court HQ for 2020. The good news was that energy use was down 15%; not so good was that this was largely caused by lockdown, especially in March and April....
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Panel dashboard reveals all
The Solar Edge inverter installed in April at Claydon Court has an online, real-time dashboard that allows the analysis of energy use. The below screen grab shows it’s working and how it has ...
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Claydon Court energy for April – it’s going up in the summer?!
This month’s energy usage figures are in for Claydon Court. The bad news is our emissions are rising overall and per person alongside the outdoor temperature at the moment. April was a ty...
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Beware the spectres of the energy bill!
We’ve been reviewing our energy supply rates recently and shopping around to get the best price for our tenants. A seemingly much cheaper quote than current was seemingly achieved. It slipped under ...
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How are we doing with our buildings’ emissions?
We constantly monitor the energy usage by tenants at Claydon Court and analyse the results so we identify ways to improve. Below is a graph of the Claydon Court emissions from January 2013 to present....
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Carbon log jam
The suspicion that the Suffolk Carbon Charter might prove a proverbial sledgehammer to crack SME nuts is perhaps most justified in its progress reporting device – the Carbon Log (very small...
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Charter flights of fancy?
You don’t have to have been there to realise that the Suffolk Carbon Charter was probably designed by a committee. And a large one at that. Worthy in intent but wieldy in practice it’s a lot l...
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Winners and losers?
As we have a few tech based companies here is a little comparison. All of these companies work is based around computers and most of the work is done inhouse making them suitable for comparison, howev...
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Start of audits
We have eight organisations in Cohort 1. A purposive sample chosen from Claydon Court tenants and other known organisations – perfectly acceptable for case study research like this where we are de...
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Keeping virtual
Discovered this website, which is designed so that the community helps you learn a language, by marking your assignments and allowing you to talk to people who speak the language you want to learn. It...
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