We’re delighted to have completed installation of a new ‘evaporative’ cooling system in our Racks Room to reduce our energy use, and also to lower the carbon footprint associated with the existing air conditioning system, which remains as part of the overall solution.
Graham Pearl – Operations Director says: “Our recently installed Evap cooling system has been set up as the default system, and the aircon system kicks in only when it needs to, i.e. when the room cannot be held below 28⁰C. This is an automatic changeover, and after six hours hands back to the evaporative system. During the summer, it is set to extract more air through the fan to the outside, but in the winter, we can turn the extract fan down and turn up the fans that feed warm air into the warehouse.”
Using Carbon Trust approved software, carbon savings from the new system have been projected at up to 200+ tonnes over five years.
