Alastair Keir, Director of Operations

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Alastair Keir, Director of Operations 18th April
2007
Our mission is to work with the public sector to
reduce carbon emissions through investment in
energy efficiency and renewable technologies.
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What can Salix do for you?

• Salix can help your university cut energy bills
  and reduce carbon emissions.
• We provide funding and focus for capital projects
  on a match funded basis

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Salix Finance what do we do?

• We stimulate investment by establishing
  ring-fenced, interest-free funds matched by the
  public sector
• Our funds recycle savings back to the
  organisation
• Funding between 100k and 500k
• We insist on cost-effective projects with a high
  persistence and CO2 impact

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What value do we add to our clients?

• We focus attention
• Provides focus around which action can be driven
• Makes energy management mainstream
• Accumulates and protects small projects

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What value do we add to our clients?

• We provide capital
• Capital budgets are under pressure
• Protects marginal energy efficiency spend
• Frees up resources for front-line services

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What value do we add to our clients?

• We provide advice and support
• Sharing experience and benchmarking
• Help with implementation e.g. tendering

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What value do we add to our clients?

• We protect reputation
• Tangible demonstration of action rather than
  words
• Anticipate policy constraints e.g. EPC

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Case study - Retrolux car park lightingBristol
City Council
Salix

• Investment of 41,000 on Retrolux energy
  efficient lighting at Trenchard Street
  multi-story car park.
• Minimum expected annual saving of 19,000 and
  95 tonnes of CO2.
• Lower maintenance costs and increased public
  safety.

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We fund cost effective energy efficiency projects
with good persistence

• Building fabric insulation
• Pipe insulation
• Boiler replacement
• Swimming pool covers
• Variable speed drives
• Energy management systems
• Lighting controls
• Heating controls

• Years
• 24.8
• 8.8
• 8.8
• 8.8
• 8.8
• 3.5
• 3.5
• 1.7

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We are seeing strong demand across the public
sector

• Our target is to be working with 80-100
  organisations by April 2008 and to deliver carbon
  savings of 0.1 million tonnes of carbon by 2010
• In our Local Authority Energy Financing pilot
  scheme, around 500 projects are running with a
  total value of 3.3m
• Over the summer, we more than doubled our Local
  Authority programme from 19 to 45
• We have started a pilot with 8 Universities and 4
  NHS Foundation Trusts
• We are talking to several Government departments,
  including Defra and the MoD

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Salix Finance our role

• Our role is to help public sector bodies reduce
  energy costs and carbon emissions and show
  leadership in tackling climate change by
  providing funding
• We are an independent not-for-profit company set
  up by the Carbon Trust in 2004
• We have Government funding of 20m over two
  years
• We are an integral part of the UK Climate Change
  Programme1
• 1 UK Climate Change Programme 2006