Including 8 closely related terms such as solar energy, solar, and solar park.
… Park; the first solar farm funded by a Council-backed community solar bond which won the 2017 APSE award for ‘Best Renewable Energy Initiative’. The Council will regularly review, reprioritise and add actions to this plan to take into account emerging best practice, sector innovation and new funding opportunities. For example, in March this year, the Council successfully secured £750k…
… GHG emissions generated through its operations. For example, in 2016 working with ethical investment company Abundance, the Council raised more than £4.2 million from the public to build solar energy with two public investment offers. The first offer, to build the 4.8 MW Common Farm solar park, was the first council solar bond to be launched in the UK. The second, to build the 5 MW Chapel…
… of capital grant funding from the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme to install a 1.2MW battery at Waterside Park to store energy from Barnfield Solar Farm and supply the household waste recycling centre. What do we mean by ‘net zero’ greenhouse gas emissions? Net zero means achieving a position where total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are equal to or less than the emissions the UK removed…
… Farm solar park, coincided with the launch of the Abundance ISA, making it the UK’s first ever ISA-eligible solar bond. Context for this first Net Zero Emissions Action Plan In January 2020, the Council passed a motion11 that: “Commits the Council to an 80 per cent reduction in the council`s corporate carbon emissions no later than 2030, striving towards 100 per cent with carbon…
… through a successful SBC bid to UK Government’s Public Sector Decarbonisation compliment the direct wired solar farm Scheme. The battery will store c.402,000 kWh of the excess generation each year from Barnfield Solar Farm that is currently sold to the grid. This will be used instead to supply Waterside. A6 Purchase of 15 ultra-low emissions vehicles (ULEVs) as part of the wider Council…