Nottingham City Council is looking to the heavens to power a number of its leisure centres, by installing solar panel canopies above the facility’s car parks. The Ken Martin Leisure Centre, Harvey Hadden Leisure Centre and Nottingham Tennis Centre will all be topped with solar panels, with each site expected to be fully-powered by the new canopies. The plans are part of a wider city scheme to boost green energy generation across the city, with two football pitch-sized canopies in the pipeline at nearby at park-and-ride sites. The solar project is expected to cost the council £2m, with the money to be recouped in a decade if the canopies generate £200,000 worth of energy a year as predicted.
Nottingham City Council goes Solar
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