Including the closely related terms street lighting, and lighting.
… and to encourage more sustainable forms of transportation. Urban greening initiatives and the planting of new trees across the Borough, including offering 5000 free saplings for residents to grow. LED lighting upgrades across several corporate buildings including the Civic Centre. Street lighting programme, replacing 23,700 sodium lights with more efficient LED units. Installation of solar panels across…
… ‘Carbon-Neutral’ by 2030.” We will invest in energy saving measures across the property portfolio. This applies to public access buildings and sites where the Council pays for the energy supplies, our vehicles and highway assets like streetlighting and car parks. We will reduce our demand on fossil fuel to the minimum and use carbon offsetting to counteract our remaining emissions. Corporate…
… insulation, upgrades through reactive works upgrading inefficient communal lighting to LED and reducing the energy demand for homes. Schools and community centres: major refurbishment and new building work leading to higher energy standards. Smart metering installed for monitoring and to identify the buildings with the most demand. Active no idling campaigns at schools to reduce air pollution…
… on other similar ageing buildings. 0 200 400 600 800 1,000 1,200 Street... Street... Colne Park... Cedars Car Park Grainges Car... Blyth Road... Civic Centre... Green Lane... Fairfield Road... Park Lane APC Electricity Gas Top 10 (Non-Building) Annual GHG Emissions GHG Emissions (tonnes CO2e) Streetlighting also represents a significant hurdle as it makes up the majority of the ‘non…
…- building’ emissions. For both the Civic Centre and streetlighting, innovative approaches will be required to find solutions to achieving the necessary emissions reductions. 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500 Uxbridge Civic Centre Combined total of remaining 9 buildings Total of top 10 energy consuming Council buildings Electricity tCO2e Gas tCO2e Total carbon emissions (tCO2e…