Tuesday 6 August 2024

London Fire Brigade lights up with energy savings

London Fire Brigade’s energy saving portal won the Building Management Low Carbon Initiative Award.

The Energy Portal is a module within the Building Energy Management System (BMS), a network of sensors that oversees all the systems within an estate to reduce costs and emissions.

The Portal, which was introduced in 2022, controls around 65% of the energy used by the Brigade’s 103 fire stations.

Between April 2022 and March 2023, the amount of energy used was cut by 17%, surpassing a target of 10%.

Mitch Layng, Carbon and Utilities Manager at London Fire Brigade, said: 'The implementation of the Energy Portal has been really successful and we are so pleased by the response and engagement from our staff.

'Collectively, we all have a part to play in the fight against climate change and the way this system has been set up allows people to do just that.

'We are committed to becoming a more sustainable organisation, which will help support the Mayor of London’s ambitions to make London carbon net zero by 2030. Saving energy also helps to save money, which can be reinvested into our services.'

The Brigade aims to go net zero by 2030. In 2022, it unveiled its first ever carbon net zero fire station in Walthamstow.