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Taking Action

Southampton’s Efficiency Plan

13 January 2014

Southampton City Council has awarded a £30 million deal to outsourcing company MITIE to deliver more than 2,000 energy efficiency improvements under the Energy Company Obligation (Eco). The 18 month contract will see MITIE install Eco measures for council tenants and private households. Under the deal, MITIE will also be responsible for the delivery of a district heating scheme for the Thornhill Estate, which will involve more than 1,100 properties.

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Taking Action News

  • Nottingham’s Net Zero Ambition

    Nottingham City Council has been named the overall winner in the Guardian’s Public Service Awards. He Council announced in January that it intended to become the UK’s first carbon-neutral city …

  • Net Zero Bristol by 2030

    Bristol City Council – controlled by Labour – was the first council in the country to declare a climate emergency in November 2018. That motion was unanimously passed and now …

  • Sunderland goes for Ground Source Heat Pumps

    Residents in 364 homes across seven tower blocks in Sunderland are seeing their gas boilers replaced with heat from ground source heat pumps. There will be a ground source heat …

  • Hydrogen-fuelled ferries considered for Western Isles

    An innovative plan to use hydrogen produced at island wind farms to power the ferry network has been announced by Point and Sandwick Trust. Yesterday, the trust published a feasibility study …

  • Climate Emergency

    In December 2018, Stroud District Council pledged to do everything in its power to make the district carbon neutral by 2030, a leading pledge that was followed by Gloucestershire County …

Taking Action Information

See UK-wide Weekly News on small-scale renewables, energy efficiency and community energy at Microgen Scotland website

The Rough Guide to Community Energy by Duncan Clark & Malachi Chadwick, May 2011

Manifesto for Community Energy Revolution, The Co-operative and Co-operatives UK, 2012

Large-scale community renewable energy schemes, list compiled by Rebecca Willis, 2013

 

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