Including the closely related terms energy efficiency, energy, and energy efficiency.
… which are in the worst condition. • Continue to identify our worst energy performing buildings and prioritise those for future energy efficiency and low carbon initiatives as funding becomes available, including seeking alternative financing arrangements where existing funding streams are not sufficient. • Work with Local Area Committees to review mowing and hedge cutting regimes, seeking…
… are perfectly positioned to thrive, and to create thousands of new jobs. We must work together across the public and private sectors and across geographies to seize this opportunity. • Businesses can often reduce costs by improving their energy efficiency, and by reducing the impacts of climate change, we can help minimise impacts on our local economy including reduced worker productivity or service…
…. • Community energy creates the potential for community wealth building. Our Council • The actions that we take to reduce our climate emissions such as having safe warm and beautiful homes, can support us to achieve our other strategic outcomes. • Investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency, particularly in combination with accessing government funding, can provide energy efficiency savings…
… entirety. Current government funding and policy mandates high numbers of new homes, rather than retrofitting existing stock, which presents a significant challenge. The cost for decarbonising the Council’s non-domestic buildings is estimated to be at least £19m. These investments will increase energy efficiency and generate some income over time (estimated cost savings of £5.1 by 2030), but we…
… of the action that we are already taking across the Council that is reducing our carbon emissions immediately in our priority thematic areas includes: Our homes and buildings • We have bid this year for over £12m of funding to improve the energy efficiency of our homes and buildings, receiving almost £5m so far, with further decisions awaited. • We are retrofitting approximately 800 homes through…