Including the closely related terms carbon saving, and carbon.
… their successful completion and commissioning. This is also a neat procurement solution. The 35 MW solar farm in York will generate enough power for 10,000 homes and generate carbon savings of around 15,000 tonnes per annum. The 25 MW solar farm in Hull will generate enough power for 8,000 homes and generate carbon savings of around 10,000 tonnes per annum. The Council will then arrange…
…-sufficiency has not been reached by any local authority in the UK to date and would be achieved where the Council is generating an equivalent amount of energy from renewable sources to that which it uses in the delivery of its services. The Council’s Climate Emergency declaration pledges to make Warrington a net zero carbon area by 2030. This will involve both an inward looking focus and an outward…
… looking focus. The latter is the work with partners across the town and region to deliver this goal through strategies and plans. The inward looking focus is to make all Council property carbon neutral by 2030 and across all services. This Energy Strategy covers a large part of the work required to meet those pledges. The Council has identified six key areas as part of these goals…
… to operate in all three areas. Warrington Council does aspire to work in all three areas, as its projects below demonstrate. A Changing Market But the energy market is changing – and fast. A new age has arrived, characterised by the 4 D’s: Decarbonisation – legally binding carbon budgets for the UK Government and a need for policy to support the aspiration under the Climate Change Act 2008…
… for net zero carbon by 2050; Digitisation – technology now acting as an enabler allowing quicker decision making with far greater machine- based learning; Decentralisation – energy is no longer generated at a central point and distributed one way – distributed generation is now more commonplace and growing in impact; Democratisation – social contracts and the need to take customers…