Including the closely related terms lighting, and street lighting.
… seen real progress on our environment ambitions these past 12 months. My personal highlights include: • 100% of electricity used by the Council is now sourced from renewable energy; • We’ve replaced all street lights that we are responsible for with low energy LED bulbs; • Based on robust evidence we gathered over the past year, we have successfully been awarded over £1m for energy…
… electricity) emissions amounted to 991 tonnes CO2e. Scope 1 and 2 includes emissions from gas and oil for heating our buildings, electricity for our buildings and street lighting etc. and emissions from fleet vehicles. Thus overall, in headline terms, the Council’s carbon footprint for 2019/20 (1,315 CO2e) showed little change from the baseline year of 2018/19 (1,317 CO2e) being only slightly down…
… emissions are set out below (with ‘well-to-tank’ listed separately, rather than merged into the individual applicable rows): GHG Emissions (Tonnes CO2e) Scope 1 Scope 2 Scope 3 Grand Total Buildings & utilities 71 119 26 216 Electricity for Council Buildings - 118 - 118 Electricity for Street Lighting - 1 - 1 Gas Consumption 71 - - 71 Water and sewerage - - 7 7 Transmission &…
… recently, and launched by the Combined Authority for Cambridgeshire-Peterborough in 2020, the Independent Commission on Climate produced its Initial Recommendations report in March 2021. That report puts a spot light on four key areas of transport, buildings, energy and peat. It also provides overarching recommendations, including the need for more investment into mitigating and adapting…
… use of refrigeration and air-conditioning equipment • Air conditioning used in Council Offices e.g. The Grange 2 Stationary Consumption of purchased electricity, heat or steam • Electricity used in Council Offices e.g. The Grange, Portley Hill Depot • Electricity used in street and car park lighting which also includes road signs and illuminated bollards • Electricity…