Sainsbury’s generates new recurring revenue by going green

Sainsbury’s and KiWi Power, the UK’s leading smart grid and demand management company, has announced plans to pilot a pioneering demand response programme.

KiWi Power has designed an energy management programme that Sainsbury’s is piloting in two of its distribution centres. This will enable power consumption to be temporarily reduced during times of grid stress. In return, National Grid pays for these demand reductions, which provides Sainsbury’s with a new revenue stream for managing its energy consumption more intelligently.

Providing an alternative to polluting and expensive power generation supplied during grid energy peaks, KiWi Power works with companies to reduce demand on the grid.

Around 10 percent of the UK's electricity capacity comes from peaking power stations. These power stations are highly polluting and expensive to run, and are used by National Grid to satisfy peaks in demand and avoid blackouts. (For example, on warm days when air conditioning systems are working at full capacity, and during major sporting events such as the Olympics). 

Sainsbury’s operate a number of large, state of the art, distribution centres. Maintaining optimal conditions requires robust engineering that is backed up by the provision of standby generators to help maintain these conditions in the event of power failure.

The pilot at the two Sainsbury’s distribution centres is taking place at the Hams Hall depot, near Birmingham and the Waltham Point depot on the outskirts of London.

The results of the pilot in operational and financial terms are being reviewed and it is anticipated that the demand response solution will be rolled out across more depots.

Allen Macadam, Sainsbury's Logistics Change Project Manager, said: “We are pleased to be at the forefront of this pilot programme with KiWi Power. Not only are we able to help reduce our carbon footprint, but we have also been able to reduce our energy costs. There has also been no change to the day-to-day operation within the two pilot depots and we have managed to implement the solution without requiring any investment!”

Ziko Abram, KiWi Power’s co-founder said: “We are excited to be working in partnership with Sainsbury’s on this pilot and are very encouraged by their commitment. Sainsbury’s has already executed two successful demand response events in its first month of piloting.”

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Notes to editor

1) KiWi Power was co-founded by Yoav Zingher and Ziko Abram in 2009. KiWi is a smart grid company that specialises in managing the demand side of energy consumption for large industrial and commercial consumers of electricity and for government regulators. The technical term is demand response.  KiWi Power operates in the UK in England, Wales & Scotland supplying Demand Side Management services to National Grid. National Grid pays for these demand reductions, thereby allowing participating companies to generate new recurring revenue streams and reduce their carbon footprint.

www.kiwipowered.com

2) Hams Hall – At this 700,000 sq ft facility utilisation of standby generation, remotely operated and dispatched, enables Sainsbury’s to generate six figure annual revenues.

3) Waltham Point – Serving London and the South East, one of Europe’s largest warehouses also achieves six-figure annual revenues using a combination of standby generation and temporary load reduction across refrigeration, compressors and air handling units.

Marcus Edgar

Resonates

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E: marcus@resonates.com

About KiWi Power

KiWi Power was co-founded by Yoav Zingher and Ziko Abram in 2009. KiWi Power is a smart grid company that specialises in managing the demand side of energy consumption for large industrial and commercial consumers of electricity and for government regulators. The technical term is ‘demand response’. KiWi Power operates in the UK in England, Wales and Scotland supplying demand-side management services to the National Grid. The National Grid pays for these demand reductions, thereby allowing participating companies to generate new recurring revenue streams and reduce their carbon footprint.

www.kiwipowered.com

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