Including the closely related terms street lighting, and lighting.
… or have financial responsibility for. We have been measuring our direct carbon emissions since 2009/10 and include a range of activities within the scope of our calculations. These activities are: ● Approximately 350 operational buildings, including leisure facilities but excluding schools and Council housing; ● Street lighting; ● Biffa waste collection fleet; ● Our fleet vehicles…
… 6,616 -57.9 MCC Fleet 2,863 844 -70.5 MCC Grey Fleet 1,001 540 -46.1 MCC Taxis 136 56 -58.5 MCC Train 110 17 -84.7 MCC Air travel 79 67 -14.5 MCC Carclub 5 8 40.4 Waste Collection Fleet 2,496 3,089 23.7 Total 72,075 37,418 -48.1 A range of activities and programmes have enabled us to do this and these are: ● Delivering a street lighting replacement programme to replace…
… all of our 57,000 street lights with energy efficient LEDs. The project (£32.8m) involves procurement and installation of state-of-the-art, low energy, light emitting diode (LED) street lighting technology and complete in 2020. The Council has worked with Salix Finance to fund this scheme, who provide loans to the public sector to improve energy efficiency, reduce carbon emissions and lower…
… that investment decisions are additionally considered in terms of their contribution to reducing carbon reductions. The Council has already committed significant investments totalling £69 million including the Carbon Reduction Plan for the Council’s operational estate, the Civic Quarter Heat Network, and the Street Lighting replacement programme. ● Engagement and awareness raising, including carbon…
… Large scale energy generation scheme 7,000 Completion of the final year of the street lighting LED replacement programme 220 Estimated carbon emissions saving benefit from the decarbonisation of the National Grid 800 Completion of the Civic Quarter Heat Network and 1,600 connection to the Town Hall, Town Hall Extension, Art Gallery and Central Library Replacement of half…