Sustainable development drives economic growth and is also a powerful vehicle for progress.Sustainable development have three dimensions:

• Economic, because sustainable development involves optimizing energy consumption and ensuring that installations and equipment are energy efficient ;
   
• Social, because projects must respond to the need for increased mobility of people and goods, encourage access to electricity to ensure users’ quality of life and meet safety requirements in every market ;
   
• Environmental, in limiting the environmental impact, optimizing energy consumption and encouraging the development of renewable energy.

 
Focus is on the economical dimension
EcoCalculator is a tool aimed at helping you choose the best cable solution to achieve Energy Efficiency, reduced Carbon Footprint and improved Safety of people in case of fire, whilst ensuring a good return on Investment.

The aim of the EcoCalculator is to focus on energy losses during the use stage and not on the manufacturing stage, as 90% of the environmental impact of a power cable during its entire life cycle is attributable to the use stage.

Focuses on building cables
The tool focuses on building cables. Why building? Given the current reality in the construction industry — which alone accounts for 40% of global energy consumption — players at all levels in this market are beginning to move towards sustainable buildings.

Products available within the EcoCalculator are low voltage cables, up to 1 kV – 3 phase. Calculations are based on the IEC 60287 and IEC 60228 international standards.

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EcoCalculator: User friendly tool

The calculation requires that a technical calculation has been done. You select the cable type and area you will use in your installation.

There after you will fill in a number of parameters such as load, length of cable, estimated lifetime and utilization.

From the information filled in, an economic and environmental assessment in which the results / benefits of each cable propsed by the EcoCalculator will be presented according to three criteria:   
 

Save energy:
EcoCalculator will show how much energy you save in kWh and SEK.
 

   
Reduce carbon footprint:
EcoCalculator will show how much you will reduce the carbon foorprint in kg equivalent to CO2.
 

   
Save lives:
When available, the Nexans EcoCalculator will offer you the alternative of halogen free cables.

Calculation results

There are two types of calculation results

Basic calculation
Shows a summary of the savings / year and the pay back time.

Detailed calculation
Shows the same as the basic calculation and the energy loss / year, costs related to energy losses, eg.