energy efficiency & environmental management
This page contains advice and guidance for cinema operators on the reduction of energy consumption and the carbon footprint of cinemas. The aim of this work is to reduce energy costs for cinemas and minimise the environmental impact of cinema operation.
The CEA document Energy Efficiency and Environmental Management: Best Practice Guidelines for CEA Members is intended to provide information on good practice and remind managers of the mandatory Government targets on energy reduction which will become ever more demanding in the coming months and years.
This guidance will be supplemented and updated as more information becomes available from Government and from the CEA Energy and Sustainability Programme, see below. You can download a copy of the document here or contact the CEA Head Office for hard copies on 020 7734 9551 or email info@cinemauk.org.uk
Over the past two years the CEA has been working with members to develop an Energy and Sustainability Programme. In 2010 a specialist energy consultancy firm, Energise, was engaged to audit the energy consumption across a number of West End cinema sites in London and make recommendations for maximising their energy efficiency and reducing their carbon emissions. Whilst this work was valuable in its own right it also acted as a test bed to detemine whether such an exercise could be valuable to run across the wider CEA membership.
We found big potential wins from this first phase: the audits identified possible savings of up to 23 per cent of annual energy consumption and those cinemas involved have already been able to realise an average of 11 per cent saving in energy usage in the first year since the audit.
Following the successful conclusion of the first phase, in August 2011 we embarked on a second phase to take the programme nationwide. Since then we have been working with Energise on three interlinked work packages as follows:
- Building on what was learnt from phase 1, Energise have been undertaking a more detailed analysis of energy consumption in cinemas in order to provide benckmarks for the industry with realistic energy and carbon emission targets;
- This data is being used to develop a toolkit which will allow operators to input energy data from their sites to an electronic worksheet to compare usage in different types of buildings and identify if and how savings in energy costs and carbon emissions can be made;
- A supplementary guidance document docusing on the management challenges of operationg low carbon cinema is being produced to accompany the existing, more operational, guidance. This document will also advise cinemas on current and emerging legislation relevant to the industry.
Phase 2 is due to be completed in February 2012.
The following presentations and guidance on Energy and Sustainability legislation has been provided by Energise for the CEA Energy Working Group. You can download the December 2011 update on legislation here, and January 2012 guidance on Carbon Reduction Commitment Allowances here.
