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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.

HiLo-PSS and Polymark have joined forces under the Agility Group banner to create a 1,365 sq m storage and distribution warehouse in Coventry for a major supermarket chain.

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.