The Angel Hotel is a privately owned 24 bed hotel establishment based in the Market Harborough, Leicestershire.

Eager to manage energy consumption and reduce environmental impact, The Angel is using Gaia’s remote energy monitoring service to track their consumption by 30 minute intervals. Using ‘Gaia’ the Hotel has managed to identify consumption peaks for attention with a constant 24/7 monitoring service flagging up any irregularities should they occur. By maintaining control the Hotel can minimise energy costs and cut carbon emissions.

Within four weeks of access, RSM Industries was able to make two substantial savings as a result of being able to see their gas consumption data.

• Their weekend pattern highlighted heating was being left on unnecessarily; this was corrected resulting in savings of about £50 per month.

• A further other saving arose identifying a sudden increase in background use of gas equivalent to £500 a month extra. RSM noticed from the graphs that the increase started at the same time that some work was done on a gas boiler. They investigated, found the boiler had been left set incorrectly after that work, and corrected the problem.

Had it not been for our smart meters and data, it may have taken many weeks for the additional usage to have come to light.

Alcon is one of the world’s foremost manufacturers of performance and motor sport brake and clutch systems; supplying and winning in F1, WRC, NASCAR, Indy Car, Touring Cars and GT racing, as well as engineering extreme solutions for several leading performance road car manufacturers.

Eager to control peak consumption and reduce their environmental impact with ISO14001, Alcon use the Gaia monitoring system to keep track on electricity usage. With 48 consumption reads taken per day, the data available at www.savegaia.net and alerts set up should consumption hit a set limit, Alcon have their energy under control.

Operations Manager David Fuller said ‘We at Alcon are keen to show our commitment to good environmental best practice. Using Gaia we can visibly see our energy consumption enabling us to drive down usage and save money at the same time.’

www.alcon.co.uk