Energy Efficiency Improvements and Low Carbon Heating
This page relates to non-domestic buildings.
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The Highlands Council
Opened a £7 million Recycling Fund with Salix to reduce carbon emissions and install a wide range of energy efficiency upgrades. The council have taken an estate-wide approach, with the first phase of works focusing on how education and leisure estates can be upgraded. Large scale LED lighting and Solar PV projects have also been rolled out across the council’s school estate. Improvements to existing sites were made to prepare for the installation of renewable onsite generation.
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NHS
The NHS Climate Change and Sustainability Strategy has set targets to use renewable heating systems by 2038 for all NHS-owned buildings, and for all our estate to have net-zero emissions by 2040 or earlier where possible. They plan to reduce their energy consumption through efficiency measures (set out in Annex A of the strategy) and replace fossil fuel heating with renewable heat sources and electricity. As well as undertaken Building Management System (BMS) improvements, energy management and sub-metering. A flagship example is the NHS Orkney Balfour Hospital.
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The University of Strathclyde
Opened their Recycling Fund in 2009 and since then they have invested over £3.3 million of Salix funding and completed over 30 energy efficiency projects to begin creating a pathway to a carbon neutral estate. Their Recycling Fund has enabled them to complete various energy efficiency projects ranging from pipework insulation to upgrading fume cupboards. One of their most recent projects saw an investment of £1 million as part of upgrades to the university’s main data centre, consisting of cooling optimization and a server replacement.
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City of Edinburgh Council
Saughton Park, part of the ParkPower programme, is Scotland’s first green-powered park. By combining a micro-hydro scheme to generate electricity and ground source heat pumps to generate heat it utilises its natural assets in a sensitive way to decarbonise its energy demand.