Including 21 closely related terms such as solar panels, solar panel, and panels.
… 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…
… 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…
… 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…
… 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…
…-zero estate by 2030 without significant carbon offsetting. To compensate for the challenges to delivering large ground-mounted solar arrays, a re-focus on delivering rooftop solar projects at scale is needed. 18 3.3 Fleet and Active Travel Council-owned fleet makes up 12% of direct carbon emissions. Table 4:Progress and next steps of fleet decarbonisation Project Progress…