Background
Working with Sustain, a leading carbon reduction consultancy and a retail customer, we were tasked to prove the whole life carbon impact for light fittings, a costly and carbon intensive asset in any retail environment. This meant modelling both the lifecycle cost and carbon in kykloud.
Key business benefits delivered by kykloud
The analysis powered by kykloud showed that by substituting fluorescent tubes with LED tubes there is one month payback in whole life carbon terms and a 2.5 year payback in whole life cost terms.
The findings and savings are set out below:
| 10 year WLCost £ |
60 year WLCost £ |
|
| Fluorescent | £4,654 | £30,302 |
| LED | £2,555 | £16,285 |
| Saving | £2,099 | £14,016 |
| 10 year WLCarbon kgC02e |
60 year WLCarbon kgC02e |
|
| Fluorescent | 28,899 | 186,145 |
| LED | 11,455 | 73,076 |
| Saving | 17,443 | 113,068 |
| @ £11/tonne | £192 | £1,244 |
Lessons Learnt
Capital investment decisions can be based on cost as well as Carbon.
kykloud drives the right decision for your businesses today.
The right tools engage stakeholders across separate business functions.
Awareness of both cost and carbon impacts of decisions made promotes behavioural and culture change within your organisation.