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… the Councils corporate estate through the installation of rooftop solar photovoltaics (PV) and domestic air source heat pumps on social housing across St Marys. The programme successfully installed 9.7kWp of solar photovoltaics at St Mary’s Fire Station, 280 solar panels generating 85.4kWp at Porthmellon Household Waste & Recycling Centre. The programme also oversaw the installation of 17.08kWp…

… opportunities that support improved energy efficiency measures and activities as and when they arise. Case Study: Churchtown Farm, St Martins. Church Town Farm on St Martins accessed the BEES funding to install has a 24kW solar array in February 2021,. As a result of their project, they have generated 20.7MWh energy, saving £3315 in fuel bills with a 5300 kg CO2 emission saving. Image: Church Town Farm…

… Solar Panels, St Martins Building more sustainably In March 2021, the Council adopted the new Local Plan (2015-2030). The aims and policies set out in the Local Plan are designed to ensure sustainable development is embedded within all future planning applications and construction across the islands. New planning policies have been developed to include the principles of sustainable…

… the greatest opportunity. In August 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reaffirmed climate change is real, present and lasting and set out unequivocal evidence that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land to an unprecedented degree, with effects almost certain to worsen in the coming decades. This, our second Climate Change Action Plan builds on the Council’s plan…

… achieved over the last ten years. The next section of this plan showcases some of the major successes we have had. Image: Barefoot Photographer / Scilly Wildlife Trust Library Moving away from fossil fuels The St Mary’s airport solar garden installation of 48.8kWp produces an estimated 44,000 kWh of renewable energy a year to the national grid, as well as supporting the electric vehicle…