A leisure centre in Nottingham is set to save the local council an estimated £10,000 on energy bills and reduce carbon emissions by 41 tonnes thanks to the installation of an 88KWp solar carport. The 354-panel solar array, constructed by commercial solar PV developer EvoEnergy for Nottingham City Council will generate 79,874kWh of on-site energy across nine separate, specially-built roofs at the Ken Martin Leisure Centre. Fitted over three months between November and January, the Ken Martin solar carport was completed before the Government’s recent cuts to the Feed-in Tarriff (FiT). The system is on course to pay for itself within 11 years, after which point it will earn Nottingham City Council an income for the remaining nine years of the FiT.
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Whitbread-owned Coffee shop chain Costa is planning to introduce at least four more of its innovative ‘zero-energy’ coffee shops across the UK within the next 12 months, after a pilot store in Shropshire delivered significant energy savings for the hospitality group.
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The amount of household solar power capacity installed in the past two months has plummeted by three quarters following the Government’s cuts to subsidies, according to new figures.
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