UAE-based Emirates Central Cooling Systems Corporation (Empower) has achieved 8.9 per cent savings in energy consumption of district cooling during its novel four-month summer campaign.

One of the world’s largest district cooling service providers, Empower said the “Saving Starts at 24°C” campaign was implemented with an aim to rationalise the consumption of district cooling services during peak summer times.

This has been reflected on the reduction in costs and environmental impact, it stated.

It is the third consecutive year Empower has been running this campaign.

Since its launch in June, the Emirati firm was very keen to maximise the benefits of the campaign, which actually resulted in savings by way of consumption cost and lifting the burden off customers who played a pivotal role in the campaign's success.

On the campaign's success, CEO Ahmad bin Shafar, said: "We are proud of what we have accomplished together with our valued customers and achieving significant rates in terms of cooling energy consumption, and achieving mutual benefit for Empower and its customers."

The summer campaign, he stated, reflects Empower's vision to optimise the use of resources and energy, reduction of the environmental impact, and reduction of carbon emissions, which usually reach their peak during the hot summer months.

"We are happy to achieve this outcome, which encourages us to launch more initiatives and plans to reduce dependence on energy, save in costs, preserve the environment, adopt advanced technology to improve the energy sectors, regulate natural resources' consumption, and adopt sustainability methods," he added.

Empower currently operates more than 1.1 million refrigeration tonnes (RT), providing environmentally responsible district cooling services to large-scale real estate developments, such as Jumeirah Group, Business Bay, Jumeirah Beach Residence and Dubai International Financial Centre.

Bin Shafar said: "We are moving with a clear approach to provide district cooling efficiently without neglecting the environmental issues and to apply the highest security and sustainability standards to continuously improve our services."

"We are also developing innovative systems to further improve district cooling technologies. We seek to achieve our customers' satisfaction and happiness. We will be launching more such initiatives to boost their happiness and achieve the greatest flexibility in dealing with environmental issues in order to support the vision of the leadership to achieve sustainability across all the sectors," he added.-TradeArabia News Service