Eco Insight reduces warehouse’s energy usage by 87%

Eco Insight reduces warehouse’s energy usage by 87%

5th September 2024 | 58 sec read

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The Challenge

One of Unipart’s UK operations wanted to better understand its energy consumption by automating the previously manual data collection process.

The site leadership team was concerned that monthly energy and utilities bills provided very little information on how or where energy was being consumed, or the cause of high-consumption areas.

The 312,000 sq.ft multi-client logistics centre employs 650 colleagues across multi-shifts providing warehousing, returns, recycling and customer service operations.

The Solution

The site installed Eco Insight, Unipart’s plug and play energy monitoring product, to monitor, analyse and optimise energy consumption in real- time.

Bespoke Eco Insight alerts were created to inform operational leads if there were any anomalies with energy consumption in identified areas, so that immediate action could be taken.

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Interior of a modern warehouse

87%

Reduction in energy use

The Impact

Real-time data displayed on customer dashboards showed that electric heaters within the returns operation were consuming approximately 6,600 kWh per month of unnecessary energy during non-operating hours.

Following this discovery, the team implemented a greater systemic control of electric heaters within the operation that had the following benefits:

  • 87% reduction in energy consumption within the recycling operation
  • £16,693 of savings per year.

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