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Wychavon District Council

… and ways to reduce energy use, help with reading and understanding fuel bills and switching energy supplier, and referrals for free or discounted energy saving measures such as insulation. x3 This council has shown strong leadership on carbon reduction and environmental stewardship for over a decade. We first signed up to the Worcestershire Climate Change Pledge in 2005, agreed…

… and public toilets, delivering a wide range of domestic energy efficiency schemes, creating new habitats and installing 24 electric vehicle charging points in our car parks. 3.2 Wychavon context 15 In February 2020, we agreed an ambitious new four year strategy for the council that provides the strategic context for this plan This will focus our spending and people resources over…

… emissions we need to focus efforts on both improving energy efficiency standards and encouraging low carbon alternatives to oil and solid fuel heating systems, including heat pumps, bio-gas or hybrid systems. Levels of renewable generation in the district have increased substantially in the last ten years. In 2018, 240,542 MWh of energy in Wychavon was generated from renewable sources…

… a climate change action plan in 2008 and adopted our first Wychavon Intelligently Green Plan in 2012. This set out our vision for a greener, more energy efficient and self-sufficient Wychavon. Our strategic commitments to carbon reduction have been matched by practical action. Examples include investing in the Pershore hydropower scheme, installing solar panels on the Civic Centre…

… in carbon emissions from energy consumption mentioned earlier in the plan is primarily down to decarbonisation of the National Grid and the growth in renewables rather than a reduction in energy use. While gas currently makes up a significant proportion of the energy consumed in Wychavon, there is still a relatively high proportion of energy users in both domestic and non- domestic situations…