Calculating your carbon footprint

According to The Carbon Trust, the carbon emissions associated with every kilowatt of electricity consumed can be calculated as follows:

1 kilowatt x 0.57302 ÷1000 = 0.000573 tonnes of carbon (tCO2e)

1 carbon tonne (tCO2e) = 1754.5 kilowatts

Take an example of one 50 kilowatt motor running 200,000 kilowatt hours per year. This would equate to one motor running 11 hours per day, and so approximately, 16,666 hours per month. In one year, this one motor would be responsible for 114 tonnes of carbon emissions.

Take that same 50 kilowatt motor with an imop installed next to it. At the lowest possible energy saving of 6%, the carbon emissions on that single motor would be reduced by 6.84 carbon tonnes. At the highest possible saving of 25%, the imop could reduce the carbon emissions by 28.5 carbon tonnes.

Obviously this is just an illustration of the possible carbon savings on one inductive motor. How many pieces of electrical equipment or motors do you have in your building? 10, 20, 100, 1000? Just do the maths …