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News Release from: ABB Automation Tech (Drives and Motors) | Subject: Severn Trent Wanlip energy award
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 05 October 2006
'Best Environmental Initiative' saves
GBP12k pa
An installation that reduced energy consumption by over GBP12,000pa at the Severn Trent Wanlip Sewage Treatment Works has won a 'Best Environmental Initiative' award for ABB and Severn Trent
ABB and Severn Trent Water have won an award for the "Best Environmental Initiative of the Year" in the Electrical Industry Awards 2006, following an installation that reduced energy consumption by over GBP12,000 per annum at the Severn Trent Wanlip Sewage Treatment Works in Leicestershire This is the second year running that ABB has won the environmental prize at the Electrical Industry Awards
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 6 Aug 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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"This shows that the effort we have invested over the last decade to become the leaders in energy saving technology is paying off," says Brian Dick, managing director for Sentridge, the ABB local partner and the company that installed the equipment at Severn Trent Water.
The savings at the Wanlip site were achieved by Sentridge installing three 37 kW ABB standard drives, replacing 20-year-old Heenan drives of the same rating on water process pumps, producing over 65% energy saving.
Payback was achieved in just six months and over GBP150,000 will ultimately be saved over the working life period of the drives.
"This is only one of many sites we are working with, although this one showed particularly impressive results," Dick continues.
"The interest in energy efficiency is definitely on the increase.
Users are becoming aware that there are massive energy savings to be made on the average industrial site, at the same time as the message about climate change is beginning to sink in.
Using the ABB six-step energy saving plan, a method for identifying energy waste in industry and achieving rapid savings, we have a long list of clients who are now benefiting from savings achieved in a similar way to those at the Severn Trent Wanlip site".
The Electrical Industry Awards are organized by NICEIC and Nexus Media Communications, publishers of Electrical Times, Electrical Review and European Power News.
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