Cork County Council Our Path to ISO 50001 Certification

Engineers Ireland Conference Cork 21st March 2017

Brian Ahern BEng CEM CMVP

CCC Yearly Energy Summary 41,000,000 kWh in total

€7,000,000 energy spend

26,500,000 kWh Electricity

14,500,000 kWh fuel oils (1.5m litres)

Road fleet drives 7 million km a year, 1100km/month, 600 vehicles

Gas 2,500,000 kWh

4500 MPRNs (4000 lighting)

Energy Type Breakdown

DIESEL23%

Electricity61%

GAS6%

GREEN DIESEL0%

KERO2% MGO

8%

UNLEADED0%

The Legal stuff National Energy Efficiency Action Plan NEEAP; 33%

energy efficiency by 2020 – on target

SI426 requirement of large organisations (over 250 employees or >€50m turnover) to have completed either;

An organisational energy audit.

Demonstrate that you are implementing an approved EnMS

Why ISO 50001 Organisational energy audits are very expensive.

We signed up to the SEAI Energy Management Action Plan (EMAP) programme in 2011.

It seemed the next logical step to advance our EnMSand help us achieve our 33% goal.

EMAP is based on ISO 50001 and can be called ISO50001 “lite”

Our Energy Users

43%

24%

8%

7%

2%

2%2%

12%

Public Lighting 43%

Fleet (Road Diesel) 24%

County Hall Campus 8%

Leisure Centres 7%

Libraries 2%

Environment 2%

Fire 2%

Others 12%

Fleet GPS telematics on all vehicles since 2015.

Fleet ranges from ride-on lawn mowers and JCBs to 11 litre articulated trucks.

Indications that the average monthly usage is down about 5% (large truck down about 8%)

Challenge to get 33% savings in fleet.

Fleet working group set up with the drivers and get them involved in the challenge.

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Public Lighting Cork has about 47,000 public lights 10% of the

national stock.

It accounts for 43% of our total energy use.

We have taken in charge over 260 house estates over the past two years adding an extra 2 million kWh

We have only managed to improve our average watt per lamp by 5% going from and average of 119 watts/lamp in 2009 to 112.5 watts/lamp.

National Public Lighting LED replacement

Roads Management Office Currently putting together a business case for the retrofit of all

470,000+ public lights to LEDs. ESCO/EPC model Achieve a saving a 50%+ on current stock and save over 100 GWh

of electricity per year. Aim is to have to national project up and running in the next

year to 18 months to help LA’s reach their 2020 target.

County Hall Great work accomplished over the past 4/5 years,

reduced energy by 38%

Shaved 1 million kWh off their annual energy consumption and 1 Million litres of water use.

Still progressing with more projects, but getting harder.

Leisure Centres 3 Leisure; Centres Fermoy Mallow and Dunmanway

New pool to open in Dunmanway, energy efficient design was incorporated and includes a CHP, Solar thermal, LED lighting etc.

Mallow pool we are going to replace the current oil boiler with a CHP.

Fermoy Pool has Geo Thermal and Gas boilers, needs some external fabric work.

The Certification Process Phase 1 Audit – one day looking at the basics of your

EnMS. Energy review SEUs etc. Very broad to just get a feel how far off you are.

Phase 2 Audit – Two days for us.

2 Auditors; 1 Technical and 1 for EnMS

Technical auditor reviewed our SEUs and EnPIs

EnMS auditor reviewed document control, yearly plans, NCR system, energy manual and energy review. Checked to see if we implemented the actions we had detailed in these documents

Keys to Success Started in 2012 with the SEAI EMAP EnMS. This gets the

basic structures in place.

Good Senior Management buy in – Director of Service at every meeting.

Dedicated Energy Management Team

SEU’s managers who are interested in getting certification.

Good historic energy data for Energy Review and developing EnPIs.

SharePoint for document control.

SEAI Masterclass Prgramme.

Good Document Control System Microsoft SharePoint Our internal Intranet Platform

This has systems in place to handle our all our document control.

Document versioning and numbering

Document access and permissions.

Document approval procedures.

Stores all old versions and changes made

Non Conformance Register

Opportunity Register

Document Library - SharePoint

Issues we had DEC certs for buildings which was a legal obligation

and all our buildings certs were out of date.

In your yearly plan the verification of savings have to be very specific on how you intend to calculate the savings.

Auditors biggest concern was Public Lighting, in that they were worried how do you measure the energy use in this SEU when 95% of the energy was unmetered?

Does it Work? Over the past 5 years since we introduced an EnMS the

EMAP team 145 projects have saved nearly 4 million kWh in energy.

Cork County is has achieved a 14.6% efficiency from our 2009 baseline. (need to review our activity metric)

Major challenge to reach our 33% target is Public Lighting. Significant investment required

CCC over the past two years has taken in charge over a 260 new estates and this has added to our total consumption.

SEAI Sustainable Energy Awards 2016 – Winners in Public Sector

Thank You Any Questions?

Brian Ahern BEng CEM CMVP

Senior Executive Engineer

National Public Lighting Management Team

Road Management Office