Logica to aid MoD carbon monitoring

Friday, October 02, 2009

Defence Estates has appointed Logica to deliver a system that will show energy consumption data at major defence sites across the UK in a drive towards reducing Ministry of Defence carbon emissions by 12.5 per cent by 2012 and 30 per cent by 2020.

The system, based on Logica's SIRA sustainability reporting tool, will capture real-time data from energy smart meters currently being installed in buildings across defence sites. It will ultimately be used to highlight individual sites and buildings in which patterns of energy consumption are shown to be either irregular or excessive, and enable comparisons to be made between sites and buildings to identify good practice, Logica said.

The company added that the system could also be used to monitor the success of some of the various spend-to-save energy measures across the defence estate, including lighting controls, improved insulation, biomass boilers and ground source heat pumps.

Logica and Defence Estates will work together to install the system which will link into the gas and electricity smart meters being installed across the defence estate. The system is planned to be up and running by April 2010, supporting a central Programme Office for Energy. It will be extended to provide data on oil and liquid petroleum gas consumption in due course.

Vice Admiral Tim Laurence, chief executive of Defence Estates, said: "I am delighted that we will be working with this highly respected service-provider on an important piece of work that will make a significant contribution towards government carbon targets. The provision of automated energy data will help us to act on excessive consumption, and ultimately to reduce spending on energy bills."