Including the closely related terms streetlights, lighting, and street lighting.
… reported that we had reduced the council carbon emissions by 17%, an excellent step towards out interim target of 40% reduction by 2025. Work continues to gather pace and become more embedded in our activities, helping to reduce our travel, energy use in buildings, street lighting and the embedded carbon in our highway’s construction projects. In the past year a major area of focus has been…
… to support ongoing programme of work • Continue process of estate transformation and rationalisation Reduce electricity use in streetlighting • Majority of streetlights upgraded to efficient lighting through long running PFI programme • £1.4m funding and private investment secured to undertake upgrades to LED technology - undertaken in priority areas in 2020 - 2022 Next Steps • Continue…
… to decarbonise the council’s own estate, responsible for around a third of the council’s whole emissions. A further update on our carbon footprint will be available in Autumn 2022. Key progress and next steps Building retro fit • Secured £19m from the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme (PSDS) fund to support a retrofit programme - heating control upgrades, solar PV installations, LED lighting…
… Dorset • £1.9m through combination of Government, planning contributions and private sector investment to expand public EV charging infrastructure • £1.3m Farming in Protected Landscapes – to support appropriate farming practice in AONB • £1.39m Grant and private investment – To continue streetlighting upgrade to LED Monitoring and reporting • Autumn public progress report published…