Including 13 closely related terms such as solar power, solar energy, and solar.
… to achieving carbon savings of 6,700 tonnes CO2e3 per year, the programme also brought about bill savings of over £4m per year and added 0.5MW solar energy generation capacity onto the estate. This work has been part funded by £4.5M of grants. The graphs below show the cumulative benefits that the SCC 2030 Corporate Programme has delivered for the Council. 3 Carbon dioxide equivalent gases…
… scope 1 and 2 emissions. 6 A solar Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) is a contractual agreement that enables SCC to invest, own and maintain solar panels on a school or leased building and sell the energy to the building occupier, recouping the investment and potentially generating a profit. 7 It is currently very difficult to extrapolate the value of contracts from which the Environmentally…
… needed by 2025/6 Progress to March 2024 Schools and leased buildings Target to be defined (this will depend on the decisions made by SCC regarding the ambition and investment for schools’ decarbonisation and approach to leased buildings. Target to be defined 1 School entered a Solar Power Purchase Agreement6 with SCC 5 schools were retrofitted with heat pumps and insulation…
… for the installation of 1.4MWp of solar capacity at 27 buildings to be considered by Cabinet in January 2025. Installation intended in 25/26. Estimated to 15 Progress in 2023/24: whole building retrofit completed at three SCC buildings in 23/24, and others continue their installation phase in 24/25. Not all the anticipated projects went ahead due to delivery challenges and uncertainty…
… projects were stalled mainly due to challenges with the capacity of the electricity grid, however officers continued to explore options to overcome those challenges, such as private wires or purchasing existing solar farms. There was an increased focus on solar rooftops and carports at the SCC estate, with one solar rooftop and one solar carport being installed in 23/24, and with a large pipeline…