Author Archives: SBrierley

Energy & Carbon Case Studies

Here you will find a range of short documents that are designed to provide useful information, tips and examples of best practice, to enable you to develop and implement energy-saving initiatives. If you are unable to find information on a particular topic, please do not hesitate to get in touch using the contact details on […]

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Private: Energy & Carbon compliance

Business Compliance The STE central Energy Management team is responsible for assuring that the business is carrying out its operations in an energy and carbon efficient manner.  This includes checks and balances to assure that standards, policy and legislative obligations are being correctly followed, and to provide appropriate guidance and advice so that business units […]

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How to prioritise projects

Any energy and carbon reduction programme will contain a whole host of small, individual projects that will save energy, cost and carbon across the estate.  But which should you start to look at first?  Draw up a list of potential opportunities and then use an Ease + Effect matrix to assess each one. Decide how easy each […]

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Energy and Carbon Maturity Matrix

This tool allows you to self-assess where you are on your energy management journey, and provides the steps you need to take to achieve best practice.  Each column is a key area of integrated energy management, and each row is a level of maturity.  Self-assessment is easy – simply plot in each column your closest […]

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Degree Days – accounting for the weather

The weather – or rather, the external temperature – has a significant effect on energy use, particularly in buildings or for heating energy use.  It is important to consider these factors when assessing energy use or looking for areas of excess consumption. Degree days help us to understand how hot or cold it’s been.  They […]

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Published Periodic datasets

Published Datasets The data held in Energy-Link is fluid – this means that it is continually updated with new information and refreshed data due to withdrawn accounts and re-bills.  These occur frequently for energy due to changes with meter readings and tariffs.  However, to enable Network Rail’s period and budget reporting we also publish static […]

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Energy Management Tools

Energy Management is a complex field, with lots of different elements to be taken into account.  For those with little experience it can be difficult to navigate.  We have developed a range of tools to help guide you through the process. Energy-Link is the primary tool for managing energy throughout the business.  Find out more […]

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Respiratory standard

To enable a sustainable approach to the management of the long term health and wellbeing of our employees, and achieve our vision of Everyone Home safe Every day, Network Rail has published a standard to support the proactive management of employees’ respiratory health. The purpose of this standard is to highlight the importance of identifying […]

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MORR Policy

The Management of Occupational Road Risk (MORR) Policy; NR/L1/OHS/210, has been created to provide guidance on Network Rail’s approach to managing the risk to our colleagues when they are driving on behalf of Network Rail. The new policy has a compliance date of 01 July 2017. The following materials have been made available to provide […]

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