SOLAR powered traffic bollards are to be introduced on Warrington’s streets as part of an energy efficiency programme which will enable the borough council to save £150,000 in energy bills and reduce carbon emissions by 757 tonnes over the next four and-a-half years.
Other measures include changes to street signage lighting and upgraded heating controls in council buildings.
The changes are being funded with an £250,000 interest free loan from Salix Finance, a government funded company that funds energy efficiency projects in the public sector. The award of Salix funding is recognition of the authority’s commitment to reduce carbon emissions – the council will also match this investment.
Earlier this year the council signed up the 10:10 campaign, an ambitious project to unite every sector of British society behind one simple idea: that by working together a 10 per cent cut in the UK’s carbon emissions in 2010 is possible.
Salix Finance is an independent company that manages public investment in energy efficiency technologies across the UK public sector. It enables local authorities, schools, NHS trusts and others to implement carbon saving projects that meet emissions targets and reduce energy costs.
When all Salix’s existing programmes are fully committed, they should save the public sector as a whole £700m in energy bills and 4.2m tonnes of CO2 over their lifetime.
SOLAR powered traffic bollards are to be introduced on Warrington's
streets as part of an energy efficiency programme which will enable the
borough council to save £150,000 in energy bills and reduce carbon
emissions by 757 tonnes over the next four and-a-half years.
Solar powered bollards
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At a time when the council are desperately short of money, what services will it cut to match-fund this project to the tune of £250,000?
The return on the investment is on paper and only ticks yet more boxes.
IF anyone was serious about the carbon print etc. sorting the traffic chaos and exhaust fume buid-up when the traffic frequently grinds to a halt, would be seriously beneficial to the town.
Wouldn’t it have made more sense to simply replace the bulbs with the newer low energy types rather than to spend a quater of a million pounds that we don’t have?