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Wind is the world’s fastest growing energy source and in the UK we have about 40 per cent of Europe’s wind resource.

Companies are under increasing pressure to demonstrate their commitment to the green agenda. But there are still a lot of grey areas regarding which technologies companies should invest in to guarantee a greener future. Jessica Davies investigates.

According to Solarcentury, owners and tenants of industrial buildings are increasingly turning to photo-voltaics or solar electricity as the simplest, most viable way to harness the financial and environmental benefits of on site renewable energy.

Legislation on how to implement green measures, is not clear enough and the result is confusion and misunderstanding, according to a sustainability survey by office and refurbishment fit out specialists Overbury.

John Craven of Whitecroft Lighting says that traditionally warehouses used HID luminaires like the Whitecroft Harrier which delivers high efficiency in the region of 80 per cent.

Eight ways to improve the environmental performance of your warehouse:

Batteries are a green alternative to diesel engines, in the running of forklifts with total component recovery of 83.6 per cent

Integration is the name of the game for fleet management software. Enabling systems to talk to each other is not only giving manager visibility of distribution operations – it is enabling them to make changes in real time. Malory Davies reports.

Goldstar Transport installed the Truckcom fleet & job management system for its fleet following a trial.