Including the closely related terms heating, and heating.
… and - renewable energy opportunities Focus on: - - Fabric of the building - LED lighting - Rooftop solar - Street lighting Low carbon heating solutions Early action is critical to enable the Council to rapidly reduce its carbon emissions and meets its targets of 25% and 49% carbon reduction respectively by 2022 and 2025. Developing a programme of carbon reduction opportunities enables…
… operations? Over the next 10 years to achieve our aim of a carbon neutral target the plan recognises that the Council will need to consider: Council buildings: energy to heat and power our buildings is a major source of emissions. Our aim is to reduce energy usage in our buildings including by exploring rationalisation of our estate, increasing insulation where possible, swapping to more…
… efficient sources of heating and lighting, encouraging behaviour change and looking for opportunities to add renewable sources of energy such as solar PV. Corporate Energy: This refers to the energy purchased by the Council for its operations. We will reduce energy usage and move to using ‘clean’ energy to meet our remaining energy needs. Governance and Procurement: We will expect all our…
…) Emissions, where the emission occurs directly from sources controlled or operated by the Council, for example the gases emitted from a boiler flue as a result of burning natural gas for heating. Scope 2 – Electricity - indirect GHG Emissions, where the consumption of a utility on site has a direct bearing on the emissions offsite. This predominantly relates to electrical consumption but can…
… also include district heating and cooling. Scope 3 – Other indirect GHG Emissions, where emissions are a consequence of the activities of the Council but occur from sources not owned or controlled by them. Scope 3 is a very wide category and includes all emissions sources not included in the other two scopes, such as the leisure centre operations, the transport emissions form the vehicles…