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Harlow Council

… of payback period is a successfully adopted approach for the Council. The Council’s Environment Reserve was established as an ‘Invest to Save’ fund for energy efficiency projects. The use of an earmarked reserve enables a clear overview of the savings being achieved and ensures that they are fed back into the Fund to enable delivery of future projects. 9 Actions – Mitigation…

… separately. The Green Homes Grant Local Authority Delivery scheme will be utilised to improve energy efficiency in Council housing stock as well as the Council acting as a conduit for the funding rounds to secure funds for properties within Harlow under social housing registered providers and for private owner occupiers. 25. Good data management allows effective measurement and quantification…

… The projects included within the previous two iterations of the Council’s Carbon Management Plan have sought to address carbon emissions from generation, building infrastructure and some building systems. This has included switching to zero carbon electricity tariffs for all operational properties and installing smart meters to better manage and monitor energy usage (reducing CO2e emissions by 374 tonnes…

… in 2019 and 509 tonnes in 2020), voltage optimisation within buildings to reduce wasted energy by ensuring power supplies are received at a lower and more optimised voltage (reducing CO2 emissions by 36 tonnes of CO2e per annum), and housing the services that Harlow Council provides more efficiently into fewer buildings (reducing CO2 emissions by 406 tonnes CO2e per annum since 2015/16…

…. A citizen’s assembly (Climate Assembly UK) was formed in 2020 and produced a report entitled The Path to Net Zero. The report shows how a representative sample of the population believe the UK should meet its Net Zero emissions commitment with detailed recommendations across ten areas including: how we travel; what we eat and how we use the land; what we buy; heat and energy use in the home; how we…