Tesco Swansea:

Tesco Swansea (Llansamlet) opened in April 2006 and is an environmentally progressive store achieving a 36% reduction in energy consumption against its reference store. It combines a number of efficiency measures and renewable energy including:

• Generating electricity on site through combined heat and power providing almost the entire heating load for the sales floor area
• Two state of the art CO₂ refrigeration systems, the only examples of its type in the UK
• Installed a 60KW Photo Voltaic system, totalling 444 panels using polycrystalline, monocrystalline and single-ply cells
• Rainwater is harvested from the roof for all toilet flushing
• North Lights provide natural daylight which replaces artificial lighting