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Blaby District Council

… uptake. Ongoing (by Oct 2020) 6.2.6 Explore potential for joining Solar Together – a scheme for helping residents to install solar panels on their property. This must be in collaboration with other local authorities. Make contact with neighbouring authorities. Ongoing (complete by Oct 2020 if support is received) 6.2.7 Promote LEAP (Local Energy Advice Partnership) on our website which…

… investment in new and existing low carbon energy generating technologies. As of 2018, Blaby had 1345 Solar PV installations generating 10409 mWh of electricity21. If we are to succeed we must significantly increase our local renewable energy generation, with a particular focus on small-medium scale Solar PV (Photovoltaic) installations combined with energy storage. We will aim to participate…

…. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°Celsius describes the enormous harm that a 2°Celsius (C) average rise in global temperatures is likely to cause compared with a 1.5°C rise (IPCC, 2018). And we can see the evidence of rising temperatures ourselves. In July 2019 an all-time high temperature of 38.1oC was recorded in the UK. The latest UK climate…

… can achieve net zero emissions by balancing carbon emissions with carbon removal (often through carbon offsetting) or simply eliminating carbon emissions altogether from those activities that release it such as transportation, energy production, agriculture, and industrial processes. Renewable energy sources such as wind, water and solar are said to be carbon neutral whereas fossil fuels…

… with an ever greater proportion of our energy coming from renewable sources such as wind and solar. However due to the limited grid capacity 19 to both store and transfer electrical energy at a national level we will need to take steps to significantly expand renewable sources of energy at a local level and build capacity to store that energy within the district. This will require significant…