Confectionery manufacturer Tangerine will achieve sweet savings on energy thanks to cogeneration and trigeneration technologies. 

Each year, Tangerine will achieve cost savings of almost £200,000 and save 630 tonnes of carbon, equivalent to the environmental benefit of 63,000 trees. The two-phase project will involve the installation of an ENER-G 500kWe cogeneration unit in September, followed by a 230kWe trigeneration system at the end of 2010, which will provide electricity, heating and cooling to supply a second production facility.

Tangerine has utilised ENER-G’s discount energy purchase scheme which entails no capital outlay for the business. The contract is structured to deliver low-cost, low-carbon energy onsite thus reducing the facility’s carbon footprint whilst improving profitability.

UK-based ENER-G is also working with Tangerine to develop CHP solutions on a number of other sites. A multi-site roll-out will facilitate a significant carbon reduction which is increasingly important given the advent of the government’s Energy Efficiency Carbon Reduction Commitment scheme.