imperial college carbon management plan

Imperial College Carbon Management Plan

The Carbon Management Plan

Imperial College Facilities Management

June 2010


Contents

• The Case for Action

• Objectives of the Plan

• Our Achievements to Date

• Our Current Emissions and Costs

• Our 5 Year Targets

• The Consequences of Failure to Deliver Savings

• Carbon Management Projects

• Key Project Details

• Outgoings and Savings

• Action to Embed Carbon Management

• Programme Management

• Conclusions


The Case for Action

In addition to the moral imperative to take action to limit the effects of human induced climate change

Imperial faces a number of drivers that make the CMP necessary and timely:

• Reduce the College’s carbon emissions

• HEFCE require a sector cut in emissions of 34% against a 2005/6 baseline by 2020 and is linking capital funding to

carbon reduction performance

• Safeguard against future legislation

• Imperial College is captured by the mandatory cap and trade carbon emission trading scheme starting in April 2010

• Contain rising costs related to Utilities

• Currently around £16.9 million for 20008/9 and has predicted a rise to around £21.5 million by 2013/14

• Enhance the reputation of Imperial College

• Imperial has risen up the Green League from 108th in 2008 to 62nd in 2009 and has ambitions to be in top 10

• Improve staff and student satisfaction levels

• Through ensuring that buildings are operated in an energy efficient manner whilst also meeting comfort levels expected

by it’s users


Objectives of the Plan

• To raise awareness to staff and students about the carbon emissions and cost to run the College

• To ensure that all our buildings are using efficient building services and process technologies and that they are matching the needs of our users

• To deliver long term savings from managing carbon emissions through strategic investment

• To embed carbon saving into a low carbon culture and as part of the College’s Corporate Social Responsibility

• To further integrate carbon management into College Corporate Procurement

• To develop the required skills in our graduates and research needed to grow the low carbon economy


Our Achievements to Date

Imperial College has one of the largest estates in the UK at 564,3238 m2 and due to the nature of it’s research and teaching in science, medicine, and engineering, energy use is intensive.

Prior to our involvement in the Carbon Management Programme, Imperial College had already been working on carbon reduction including energy management initiatives.

• In 2000 Imperial College installed two 4.4MWe combined heat and power engines (CHP) at its South Kensington Campus – last year the College generated over 15 million kWh of low carbon electricity as well as providing heating to the majority of its buildings.

• Over the last 3 years the College has invested over £1.2 million in sub metering at the South Kensington campus. A web enabled application, Carbon Desktop, is under development that will enable a detailed understanding of energy and cost profiles in our buildings.


Our Achievements to Date (cont)

• Engaged in a process of continuous commissioning or “better control of building services”. This has, through working with the Academic community during the period Jan 2004 to December 2009 accumulated carbon savings of around 1,894tCO2 and cost savings to the College of £381,335.

• Issued a green procurement guide for stationary.

• Working with Sustain and the Mayor’s Office to develop local clusters when purchasing raw materials for our Catering operations. This includes developing local sources of supply for all of the food that we purchase to minimise our impact.

• Installed a CO2 chiller for the data centre which has been nominated for an environmental award for sustainable IT due to its high efficiency.

• All new buildings to be BREAM Good which ensures sustainability standards are met.

• First UK University signed up to reduce construction waste to landfill by 50% by 2012.


Our Current Emissions and Costs

• In 2008/09, Imperial College’s carbon footprint resulting from electricity, gas, steam and oil used in it’s buildings, owned vehicles, waste and water was 84,026 tonnes of CO2.

• Our energy costs associated with these emissions was approximately £16.9 million.

• Almost 70% of this energy cost and emission is related directly to the South Kensington site.

• We will use 2008/09 as our “Baseline Year” for the purposes of benchmarking our Carbon Management performance throughout the duration of the Plan.


Our 5 Year Targets

• We have an Absolute Emissions Reduction Target:

– “Imperial College will reduce the CO2 emissions from it’s buildings, owned fleet, waste and water, in absolute terms, by 20% compared to the 2008/09 baseline by August 2014”.

• The Carbon Management Plan will aim to support 3 targets:

1. The 5 Year absolute reduction target as above.

2. To relate the absolute target to the Business As Usual growth in emissions forecasted.

3. An aspirational medium term (2020) emission reduction target of 34% against the 2008/09 baseline as required by HEFCE.


The Consequences of Failure to Deliver Savings

• Non compliance with HEFCE requirements

– “Institutions will be required to have Carbon Management Plans and performance against these plans will be a factor in Capital Allocations from 2011”

• Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRC)

– From 2011, poorly performing organisations will be financially penalised depending on their position in the CRC league table.

• Predicted increases in energy costs over the duration of this Plan (Electricity 28%, Gas 16%) will result in our Utilities bills rising by more than £4.5 million if no action taken.

• Our status as one of the world’s leading Universities for Science and Engineering means that there is an expectation on us to take action to reduce our own carbon impact.


Carbon Management Projects

• We have currently identified 24 Carbon Reduction projects to be carried out over the 5 years of the Plan

• The projects are a mix of:

– Behavioural awareness based – e.g. communications strategy– Retrofit measures – e.g. continuous commissioning of buildings– Planned maintenance – e.g. I.C.T. replacement equipment cycle

• So far, we have identified carbon reductions opportunities that could save a total of 17,443 tCO2

• This would give us an emission total of 75,329 tCO2 per annum when taking into account BAU growth in energy use over the duration of the Plan.

• This compares with a Baseline Year emissions total of 84,026 tCO2


Carbon Management Projects (cont)

The following is a list of our current Carbon Reduction projects. We will be adding to this list throughout the duration of the Plan.

1 Awareness & Communication (key project)

9 Improved Windows PC power saving

17 Liquid Pool Cover

2 Cavity Wall Insulation 10 Server Virtualisation 18 Steam to Medium Temperature

3 CHP Profile 11 PC Replacement 19 Steam Traps

4 CHP/Boiler Plant energy audits 12 Lighting Upgrade 20 Voltage Optimisation (Tap Down)

5 Continuous Commissioning (key project)

13 Lift Upgrades 21 Voltage Optimisation Equipment

6 Food Composter 14 Automatic Lighting Controls 22 Plant Replacement

7 Fume Cupboard Awareness 15 Plant Insulation 23 Ethos Heat

8 Fume Cupboard Retrofit 16 Toilet Upgrade 24 Data Centre Energy Review


Key Project Details

1. Awareness & Communications and Automatic Metering and Targeting (AM&T)

– Campaign launched this term and will continue for duration of the Plan

– AM&T is in place in South Kensington campus already

– High quality data will allow staff and students to understand emissions and costs associated with operating College buildings

– Currently targeting an overall saving of 4,140 tCO2 per annum by end of Plan. This equates to 25% of target emissions or 5% of total emissions in Baseline Year


Key Project Details (cont)

2. Continuous Commissioning – Involves a range of measures such as:-

– Review of plant running times to match occupancy.

– Set point temperatures to avoid over-cooling and over-heating.

– Night set back regimes to match College use.

– Optimisation of A/C and cooling plant to run more efficiently

• Most recently carried out at Flowers Building – case study available.

• Currently targeting an overall saving of 4,903 tCO2 per annum by end of Plan. This equates to 29% of target emissions or almost 6% of total emissions in Baseline Plan


Outgoings and Savings

Funding for all identified projects has been allocated under a 5 Year Capital Plan and is made up of 6 budgets. The table below shows current anticipated cumulative spending and associated savings at the completion of the 5 year Plan.

Expenditure

£M

Savings

£M

FM Energy and Environmental Initiatives (EEI) Funds 2.661 6.243

Capital Replacement Maintenance 9.513 0.166

Capital Replacement I.C.T. 1.252 0.836

Engineering Budget 0.035 0.036

Utilities Budget 2.268 0.917

Unallocated Budget* 3.550 0.995

TOTAL £ 25.279 9.193

*Hammersmith Steam to MPHW and CHP - £3.000M

*Ethos Waste to Heat (Gas Pyrolysis) – £0.550M


Actions to Embed Carbon Management

Our approach to the engagement of our stakeholders aims to ensure that the ethos of CO2 Saving is effectively embedded across the organisation.

The College will do this by:

• Gaining senior management support and buy-in. Senior representatives have been involved throughout the CM Programme

• Communicate with staff right from the outset of the programme.• Identify key individuals, carbon champions and groups within the College to support

the programme• Build participation in planning and implementation of change• Establish a “Sense of Urgency” by highlighting the costs of doing nothing• Empower our Steering Board to take action• Identify and deliver “quick wins” in terms of carbon reduction projects using a

Business Case approach• Ensure that the required changes and improvements are institutionalised within our

culture


Programme Management

Strategic governance and reporting

Carbon Management is integrated within the existing governance structure for Health & Safety. The Carbon Management Steering Board Team will report to the Health & Safety Management Committee who in turn reports to the Management Board and provides to the Council / Audit Committee a termly report on the College’s Carbon Management performance


Programme Management (cont)

Strategic governance and reporting (cont)

Council

Audit Committee

Management Board

Health & Safety Committee

Carbon Management Steering Board Support Services Committee Internal

Facilities Management

Energy & Environmental Manager


Conclusions

• Doing nothing is not an option!

• This is only the beginning. The Plan will be reviewed and revised annually to address changing circumstances

• We will monitor progress of all Carbon Reduction projects on a quarterly basis to check outcomes against predicted savings

• Further projects will be added to the Plan throughout it’s duration

• As it currently stands, the Plan does not fully meet the CO2 savings required. More needs to be done.


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