Local authorities in Scotland are required to publish yearly data on their compliance with their climate change duties – including the emissions reduction projects they are undertaking.
Savings achieved by a combination of: improving server arrangement (to improve the air flows by aligning the servers in aisles with hot and cold corridors); installing the most efficient cooling (free cooling with excellent filtration); and server virtualisation (allowing us to reduce the number of physical servers from over 500 servers to 20. This means that rather than operating 12 racks of servers within our data rooms we are now operating only 0.5 of a rack.)
Grant funding from Switched on Fleets and the Air Quality Monitoring Fund have enabled Fife Council to increase their full electric fleet to 22. This includes 11 pool cars and 11 frontline small vans. We have also introduced 3 electric hybrid vehicles in 2015-16. This figure is based on average fuel consumption of the pool cars and small vans which have been replaced with electric vehicles.
This figure relates to the reduction in fleet size seen in 2015-16, when the Council divested 18 vehicles. The estimated carbon savings figure is based on 2014 fuel consumption of these vehicles.
Fife Street lighting network upgrades continued in 2015-16 with 1500 columns erected and 7000 lanterns replaced with low energy LEDs.
Estimated savings figure. Fife Street lighting network upgrades continued in 2017-18 with 1306tCO2e saved on previous year.
In 2019-20 approx. 1200 columns erected and 4500 lanterns replaced._x000D_
The factor used to estimate business miles savings is the combined petrol /diesel one. Presently we don’t monitor what fuel is used for the mileage claimed . The savings come from the difference in mileage claimed from the year before. This figure reflects the actual business miles claimed for but is an estimate of business miles overall as not everyone claims for their mileage.
combination of gas and electrical energy efficiency projects
Unknown saving from auto-shutdowns on 22000 devices. Average shutdown 3000 PCs/night. 1000 down from previous year
Fife Street lighting network upgrades continued in 2018-19 with 800 columns erected and 9000 lanterns replaced with low energy LED's. Programme extended into 2019-20 to complete project.
Upgrading design for new academy with 100% LED lighting. The costs represent the difference between the original design which included a mix of LED and conventional lighting.
Replacing old lighting system with new efficient LED system.
Installing smart BEMS to ensure more efficient operation of heating system.
Installation of new, higher efficiency electric boilers. Urgent replacement as existing boiler was about to fail.
32 vehicles rationalised from the fleet in the reporting year.
Installing cavity wall insulation to improve thermal efficiency.
Replacing old lighting system with new efficient LED system.