Public Sector
GridDuck measures and automates hundreds of appliances in businesses,
including in schools and government buildings. Contact us to learn more.
Are you wasting energy?
Your energy use matters, whether you are a school, a hospital, a local authority or a government agency. Public sector buildings account for 9% of building-related emissions.
Over 300 local authorities have declared climate emergencies and set themselves ambitious targets.
The UK government has committed to reaching net zero carbon by 2050, and each government department is setting out net zero plans. The NHS and Department for Education net zero plans are already out.
GridDuck measures and automates hundreds of appliances in non-domestic buildings, including in the public sector.
This enables schools, councils and government agencies to reduce energy waste.
Tracking your electricity costs.
Do you know how much you are spending on energy?
Do you know what you are spending it on, and when?
GridDuck can track your electricity consumption in real time, for your whole building, or for individual appliances.
We can also take in external data feeds to our dashboard, for example from your gas or water measurements.
You can download your data and compare it to your energy bill and business activity.
Department for Transport
We helped a Government agency track the electricity consumption at five regional offices in real time.
Circuits are measured using clamps within the distribution board. The agency can compare this data against their electricity bill and identify potential savings opportunities.
Automation Example
Using our system, you can automatically switch off high-consuming appliances and machinery.
Automation Example: You can set simple and flexible time switch rules for lights, heaters, water heaters and other appliances, using our simple interface.
This rule is for a room heater.
Once implemented, the electricity demand chart for the room heater shows there are some clear savings.
In addition, the same room heater can be managed to keep the room at a constant temperature. We call it a ‘virtual thermostat’.
Driving the energy transition
The public sector is uniquely placed to drive a transition to low-carbon energy, by balancing local renewables with flexible electricity consumption, EV charging and battery storage.
GridDuck enables you to track local renewables generation and adjust your energy consumption accordingly.
Here we track solar PV at a school - but we can also charge and discharge a battery in response to solar generation.
National Highways Case Study
We helped National Highways to gain a better understanding of their energy consumption. This was essential for the organisation to divide costs amongst building tenants, for cost-saving and for sustainability reporting as required by the govrnment.
See it working in real time.
Have a look at a real example, our own office, to see how our dashboard works and how it can benefit you.
See electricity demand and consumption in real time, understand how you can generate automation rules, create groups and set permissions.
A Public Sector Testimonial
“GridDuck is a reliable system, it provides us with the additional granularity of our electricity consumption data in our office space and we need that for our carbon reporting, but also to be able to identify improvement opportunities in our operations. GridDuck is maintenance free and means we don’t have to go anywhere to take readings; everything is in one place. We recently moved and made a point of ensuring GridDuck was installed as part of the fit-out”
Kevin Denney, Strategy Manager at Highways England
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