Dumarey Green Power supplied London Tower Cranes a Revolution Battery to run a tower crane. The battery removed the requirement for a diesel generator which cut costs and emissions.
Clients:
Sunbelt Rentals UK & Vistry Group
Meridian Water
Industries:
Applications:
By deploying multiple energy savings solutions across this site, Vistry achieved a weekly commercial saving of £1,691, and a carbon saving of 10,850kg per week.
Meridian Water is Enfield Council’s £6 billion, 25-year regeneration project, which will create 10,000 homes, including 4,000 affordable homes, helping to ease the London housing crisis with an emphasis on prioritising housing for local residents and generating thousands of new jobs that all benefit the local economy.
The first phases of Meridian Water will be delivered by a development agreement between the client, Enfield Council and lead contractors, Vistry Partnerships London, now Countryside Partnerships, who are committed to building in a low carbon way and seeking solutions that will minimise the impact on the environment and the surrounding areas.
Based on conservative estimates, the team at Sunbelt have established that without adopting cleaner energy solutions (1-4) the site would have consumed an additional 76,180 litres of fuel in the period between January 1 and March 1, 2023. This would have contributed to over 202,780kg of carbon being emitted into the atmosphere. However, because of the clean energy applications deployed, the site saved 27,536 litres fuel (January 1 and March 1, 2023).
Commercially, this has reduced the fuel spend (during this period) from £112,911.88 to £72,432.78 (based on an average fuel price of £1.47 per litre during this period). Giving a total fuel savings for a 2-month period (January 1 and March 1 2023) of £40,479. After subtracting the hire cost for the addition of clean energy equipment for this period (£29,145) Vistry achieved a weekly commercial saving of £1,691, and a carbon saving of 10,850kg’s per week.
The clean energy team identified multiple applications across the site that would benefit from the addition of Peak Power Support systems (Punch-Flywheels) and Battery (Energy) Storage Units (BSUs), which across the site could:
At this time, the site had 4 tower cranes and 2 twin passenger and goods hoists. These are all dynamic load applications that traditionally require large generators, often running inefficiently on idle (sometimes 24/7) until the crane or hoist is called into action, requiring a large burst of energy for a short period.
The site adopted multiple clean energy solutions:
In addition, Countryside Partnerships (Vistry Group) adopted several other solutions from Sunbelt Rentals that enabled them to lower emissions and monitor environmental impact.
Hybrid Lighting: 10× hybrid lighting towers provide overnight lighting for security purposes and enable continued working during winter months. They typically reduce fuel consumption by over 50% compared with standard fuel-powered models.
Flywheel based energy storage systems
Required size of diesel generators is reduced, cutting fuel consumption
Reduction in fuel consumption cuts CO₂ and other site emissions, helping construction firms meet their obligations
£ net saving per week
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litres of diesel saved in two months
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tonnes of CO₂ avoided each week
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