Dave, Tom and Neil have recently returned from the Divisional conference (held annually for key station personnel). At it they were told about the RNLI's environmental policy and how they want to make a 5% electricity saving across the whole of the Institution. Being as our own electricity bill runs in to the thousands each year, this should represent a worthwhile and significant saving. Typically, rather than seeing this as a call to turn off the odd light, Dave saw it as a chance to audit our power usage and develop some sophisticated timers and switches so that we can continued to do everything we need to but make at least a 5% saving and, knowing Dave, twice that.
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So Dave's first move was this simple timer which when the button is pressed turns on the heater in the crew room for a set period of time.
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Then, in a flash of inspiration he has designed this very clever box of tricks which, if pressed after a shout or exercise, will turn on the drying cupboard heaters for 6 hours...just long enough to dry our sodden drysuits and oilskins.
Alone this should be enough to save the required 5% but Dave is naturally not satisfied with this and now has the hot water boiler and station PC in his sights!
Well done Dave!
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1 comment:
Knock a degree or two off the boiler temperature, and if it's on a timer, shorten the cycles by 5 minutes or so should help.
Also, our church changed over to energy saving bulbs, partly to save power, but mainly because nobody wanted to go up to church ceiling level (very high!)to change a blown bulb. There are more advantages than just the power saving.
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