Including the closely related terms solar, and solar energy.
… renewable energy across the borough. As a nation, we need to decarbonise energy generation and change from fossil fuels to renewable electricity for transport and in buildings. There are many opportunities to generate solar energy on new and existing buildings and wind or solar energy on land. Generating renewable energy at home reduces the amount of energy bought, and so fuel bills and fuel…
… at the end of September 2020, should help to improve the energy efciency of existing homes. It will provide homeowners vouchers to cover 2 of the cost of works including insulation of walls, foors and roofs, installation of low carbon heating including heat pumps and solar hot water measures up to £5,000. Homeowners in receipt of certain benefts can receive a voucher for all of the costs of the works…
… Borough Council are working with Kent County Council to promote the Solar Together Scheme to help residents and small businesses beneft from a collective buying programme and will bring forward other opportunities as they arise. We will: Use the Local Plan to support renewable energy generation in new developments Support residents, businesses and third sector to install renewable energy…
… Theme 7 - Making Our Estate Carbon Neutral Our aim for our estate: We will reduce emissions from our estate to as close to carbon neutral as possible by 2030 Maidstone Borough Council owns and leases buildings and land and runs a feet of vehicles to carry out its functions. We have already taken some measures to reduce carbon emissions including • Generating renewable energy using solar…
… panels on Lockmeadow Hall, our depot, the newer part of the museum and the crematorium. • Reducing energy use by installing heat pumps in the newer part of museum and LED lighting in many of our buildings and some car parks. • Reducing the mileage of our street cleansing vehicles by route optimisation. • Providing charging points for electric vehicles in six of our short stay car parks. We…