This document provides recommendations for retrofitting a warehouse to improve energy efficiency. It identifies lighting and heating as major areas for savings. Replacing traditional lighting with energy efficient LEDs and installing occupancy sensors can reduce lighting costs by 70%. Installing spray foam insulation can cut HVAC energy usage in half. An energy service company can implement multiple retrofits with no upfront costs by using the savings to pay for the project over time. This ensures upgrades are self-financing.

1. Retrofit Suggestions for
Energy Efficient Warehouse
Facilities

2. Introduction
UK warehousing facilities can reduce energy costs by over £200million p.a. via
effective energy efficiency measures and retrofit opportunities.
Discovery the major saving opportunities for your business, most of which can have
a payback on investment in under 3 years.
Typical barriers to energy efficiency
Staff expertise Time resource Availability of capital funding
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Warehousing – the saving opportunity
Source: UKWA and the Carbon Trust

3. Where is energy consumed
Focus areas - lighting and heating

4. Switching to a natural-lighting or task-lighting--where lights are only
used in areas where visibility is crucial-- can reduce consumption.
Reduce Usage with Task Lighting

5. Solar pipes are made-up of highly reflective material, and
can channel natural light into the warehouse.
Introduce Naturally-Lit Solar Pipes

6. Achieve 70 per cent performance improvement over conventional systems with T5/T8
fluorescent & LEDs, occupancy sensors and wireless control via your existing BMS
Install intelligent energy efficient
lighting

7. Sensors reduce lighting when facilities aren't in use, or
when facilities already receive ample natural lighting.
Install Wireless Lighting Sensors

8. Wirelessly integrate HVAC-R to occupancy and temperature sensors
to link energy consumption to warehouse use, not set timers
Integrate wireless movement and temp
sensors with lighting & HVAC

9. Wireless sensors that integrate into your BMS can help regulate and
measure the warehouse temperature to create seasonal control patterns
and reduce cooling/heating cycles.
Utilize intelligent thermostats

10. Large, slow-moving fans, or smaller, quicker fans can destratify the air in a warehouse--
mixing the warm air and reducing the amount of energy necessary to heat a facility in
cooler climates.
Invest in Destratification Fans

11. On average, 20% of warehouse energy costs are wasted from poor efficiency. Envido
provides cost-effective energy management support to identify saving opportunities via
its carbonmanager365 service.
Energy monitoring and control

12. Insulation can greatly reduce warehouses' HVAC energy usage, as it has twice
the R-value as batt insulation.
Install Sprayed-Foam Insulation
Insulate, Insulate, Insulate

13. Consider implementing several retrofits via an EPC to deliver guaranteed savings with
no upfront costs. Self-financing projects harness future energy savings
Retrofit using no upfront finance via
Energy Performance Contracting

14. Envido is the UK’s leading provider of integrated
energy and carbon reduction solutions
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