Printing company Focus Press has become only the second organisation to achieve gold status in the NSW environment department's Sustainability Advantage scheme, capping off a ten-year environmental transformation that has saved the company more than $700,000 in landfill fees and electricity costs.
A trigeneration network switched on today in Sydney has adopted a commercial fix for a technical problem that has plagued the roll-out of tri-gen units in Australia – and it could prove a better model for Sydney City Council's efforts to deploy the technology, says Investa's Craig Roussac.
The Sydney Masonic Centre will initiate energy efficiency improvements worth more than $190,000 a year following an energy audit conducted under the NSW environment department's Sustainability Advantage scheme.
Marketing and distribution company Metcash has identified significant energy and water savings, after joining the NSW environment department's Sustainability Advantage scheme, according to the company's sustainability manager, Louise Rhodes.
New details on how the City of Sydney will embrace trigeneration – detailed in a study by Kinesis, Cogent Energy and Origin – reveal plans to connect 65% of commercial floor space, 50% of retail and 30% of residential floor space to low-carbon electricity and zero-carbon heating and cooling.
