{"id":1587,"date":"2026-04-09T08:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vitalenergi.creativespark.co.uk\/?p=1587"},"modified":"2026-04-09T08:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:40:15","slug":"dundee-city-council-energy-project-celebrates-anniversary-with-almost-700-tonnes-in-carbon-savings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitalenergi.creativespark.co.uk\/?p=1587","title":{"rendered":"Dundee City Council Energy Project Over Performs By 17%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no\"><meta http-equiv=\"X-UA-Compatible\" content=\"IE=edge\"><meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no\"><meta charset=\"utf-8\"><title>Dundee City Council Energy Project Celebrates Anniversary with Almost 700 Tonnes in Carbon Savings<\/title><meta name=\"description\" content=\"\"><meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"\"><meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index,follow\"><meta name=\"googlebot\" content=\"index,follow\"><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Dundee City Council Energy Project Celebrates Anniversary with Almost 700 Tonnes in Carbon Savings\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"\"><meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"website\"><meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.vitalenergi.co.uk\/media\/press-releases\/dundee-city-council-energy-project-celebrates-anniversary-with-almost-700-tonnes-in-carbon-savings\/\"><meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dundee City Council Energy Project Celebrates Anniversary with Almost 700 Tonnes in Carbon Savings\"><meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"rich-text-case-study rte\">\n<div class=\"wrap rich-text-case-study__wrap\">\n<p>We\u2019ve been working with Dundee City Council for 7 years and have delivered three major energy conservation projects across their estate in that time, implementing technologies such as solar PV lighting, heating and ventilation upgrades and improvements to their Building Energy Management Systems.<\/p>\n<p>Vital Energi delivered an energy performance contract on all three phases of the project which guarantees certain levels of performance, such as reduced energy costs and carbon savings and we are delighted to say that all three phases of the project are outperforming their original guarantees.<\/p>\n<p>Phase 3 of the project has celebrated its anniversary and, after having the data verified by an independent third party, has outperformed its guaranteed targets by 17%.\u00a0 This has seen the council reduce its carbon emissions by <strong>693 tonnes<\/strong>, whilst saving over <strong>\u00a3262,000<\/strong> in energy costs.<\/p>\n<p>Previous phases had seen Vital Energi deliver energy upgrades to some of Dundee\u2019s most-used community buildings such as Dundee Ice Arena and Central Library.\u00a0 Phase 3 built on this success to add improvements to another 20 buildings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"quote\">\n<div class=\"wrap quote__wrap\">\n<div class=\"swiper-container js-simple-quotes\">\n<div class=\"swiper-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n<div class=\"quote__holder\"><span class=\"quote__icon\"> <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"36\" height=\"28\" viewbox=\"0 0 36 28\"><g fill=\"#F58220\" fill-rule=\"evenodd\"><path d=\"M12.319 0h3.648a2 2 0 0 1 1.838 2.788l-10.286 24A2 2 0 0 1 5.681 28H2.033a2 2 0 0 1-1.838-2.788l10.286-24A2 2 0 0 1 12.319 0zM30.319 0h3.648a2 2 0 0 1 1.838 2.788l-10.286 24A2 2 0 0 1 23.681 28h-3.648a2 2 0 0 1-1.838-2.788l10.286-24A2 2 0 0 1 30.319 0z\"><\/path><\/g><\/svg> <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"quote__holder\">\n<p class=\"quote__text\">NDEE projects are fantastic for the public sector, because contractors have to guarantee certain areas of performance. This gives the client both budget certainty, and ensures they are getting the carbon reduction promised.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"quote__author\">Chris Yeo, <span class=\"quote__position\"> Director of Low Carbon Solutions &#8211; Vital Energi<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rich-text-image rte\" data-anchor=\"\">\n<div class=\"wrap rich-text-image__wrap\">\n<div class=\"rich-text-image__img-holder\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rich-text-image__img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vitalenergi.co.uk\/media\/dbdlx41v\/dundee_case_study_023-copy.jpg?anchor=center&amp;mode=crop&amp;width=835&amp;height=474&amp;rnd=133509918999500000\" alt=\"Dundee Case Study 023 Copy\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"rich-text-image__text-container\">\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><em>Lighting upgrades to Dundee Ice Arena, delivered as part of Phase 1.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vitalenergi.co.uk\/javascript:\" class=\"js-read-more-rte read-more-btn\">Solution detail<span class=\"btn__link font-ico-plus\"><\/span><span class=\"btn__link font-ico-minus\"><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rich-text-case-study rte\">\n<div class=\"wrap rich-text-case-study__wrap\">\n<p>Chris continues, \u201cThis was a great project by Dundee City Council which has not only saved them money, which can be better spent on essential services, but it has allowed them to make big strides towards their net zero goals.\u00a0 We\u2019re delighted that the installations are performing so well and are sure they\u2019ll stand as an example of how city councils can reduce their emissions by hundreds of tonnes and make significant progress on their net zero journey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With all three phases now independently verified, the council are saving over \u00a3700,000 in energy costs per year and have reduced their carbon by <strong>2,200 tonnes per annum.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The results are great news for Dundee City council who have pledged to reach net zero by 2038.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff Dundee City Council Energy Project Celebrates Anniversary with Almost 700 Tonnes in Carbon Savings We\u2019ve been working with Dundee City Council for 7 years and have delivered three major energy conservation projects across their estate in that time, implementing technologies such as solar PV lighting, heating and ventilation upgrades and improvements to their Building [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"ve_media_section":[3],"ve_media_year":[],"ve_sector":[],"class_list":["post-1587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","ve_media_section-press-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitalenergi.creativespark.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitalenergi.creativespark.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitalenergi.creativespark.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitalenergi.creativespark.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitalenergi.creativespark.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitalenergi.creativespark.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitalenergi.creativespark.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitalenergi.creativespark.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitalenergi.creativespark.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitalenergi.creativespark.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"ve_media_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitalenergi.creativespark.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fve_media_section&post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"ve_media_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitalenergi.creativespark.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fve_media_year&post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"ve_sector","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitalenergi.creativespark.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fve_sector&post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}