Benchmarking energy use in licensed restaurants and pubs

Mudie, S. A., Essah, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1349-5167, Grandison, A. and Felgate, R. (2013) Benchmarking energy use in licensed restaurants and pubs. In: CIBSE Technical Symposium, 11-12 April 2013, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK.

Abstract/Summary

Commercial kitchens often leave a large carbon footprint. A new dataset of energy performance metrics from a leading industrial partner is presented. Categorising these types of buildings is challenging. Electricity use has been analysed using data from automated meter readings (AMR) for the purpose of benchmarking and discussed in terms of factors such as size and food output. From the analysed results, consumption is found to be almost double previous sector estimates of 6480 million kWh per year. Recommendations are made to further improve the current benchmarks in order to attain robust, reliable and transparent figures, such as the introduction of normalised performance indicators to include kitchen size (m2) and kWh per thousand-pound turnover.

Item Type	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/31481
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Interdisciplinary centres and themes > Centre for Technologies for Sustainable Built Environments (TSBE) Science > School of the Built Environment > Energy and Environmental Engineering group
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