Reliance Bearing & Gear Company

Distribution sector: Dublin, Cork and Limerick

This Resource Efficiency Opportunity assessment outlines the potential benefits to Reliance of using Greenbusiness to help manage their resources more efficiently. The site visit identified a range of recommendations with good associated potential benefits, including:

• Over €4,800 per annum cost savings, with many additional savings possible
• Reduced use of energy by:
  • investigating night time electricity usage (which should in theory be zero)
  • removing excess lights in offices and conference room
  • conducting a lighting audit in the warehouse and install passive infrared (PIR) lighting if savings can be realised
  • improving space heating, by (a) decommission or uninstall existing heating system and replace it with an efficient gas fired boiler and associated hot water radiators with Thermostatic Radiator Valves (TRVs); (b) move the server room contents into the archives room and pump the excess heat into the open plan office; or (c) the cheapest solution would be to buy efficient point source heaters for the individuals who are cold and turn off the existing heating system
• Reduced waste through establishing a paper recycling scheme in the office and a metal recycling scheme in the warehouse.

Read the Reliance RE document (PDF document)

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• Registering at www.greenbusiness.ie;
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