What are doing to reduce your energy usage?

19/02/2020

Cooking food is energy intensive whether at home or eating out however we are moving to entirely electric based cooking using energy from renewable sources including on campus. Our outlets use modern and efficient equipment reducing the amount of energy required. We use a variety of technologies to take this further such as heating Park Eat using outside air with Air Sourced Heat Pumps (basically collecting lots of small amounts of heat and squashing it to make it hot). We have been busy installing LED lighting across our outlets to reduce energy consumption by around 95%. Our bar areas are using state-of-the-art chilling equipment reducing energy use by up to 90% in some cases

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