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BBC News
17-03-2025
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Three Peterborough villages set to benefit from solar panel scheme
Three villages are set to benefit from solar panels following funding of £50, City Council (PCC) said Marholm Village Hall Trust, Wansford Parish Council and Northborough Parish Council will get help towards new solar panels and lighting to help reduce carbon emissions and energy Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA) provided the funding as part of the Net Zero Villages initiative, which will see solar panels and solar lighting installed on buildings owned by the declared a climate emergency in 2019, the authority said it is committed to reducing its organisational emissions to net zero by 2030. Previously, the Local Democracy Reporting Service reported that PCC needed an investment of £8.8bn to help meet its 2040 net zero carbon emissions came as the council launched the second phase of the Local Area Energy Plan (LAEP) to accelerate its carbon reduction and reach its climate Angus Ellis, cabinet member for environment and transport, said: "We are fully committed to working with partners and community groups to help reduce carbon emissions and are making good progress with this ongoing vital work."I would like to thank everyone involved in this project for their efforts and I look forward to seeing the new solar panels and lights installed. I'm sure that this work will have a positive effect in these communities for years to come."Dr Nik Johnson, Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, said: "The net zero villages initiative is a vital programme empowering rural communities with the funding they need to make environmentally friendly changes and achieve our national carbon net zero goals." Follow Peterborough news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
BBC News
16-03-2025
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Peterborough's 2040 carbon target needs £8.8bn investment
A council said it needs an investment of £8.8bn to help meet its 2040 net zero carbon emissions City Council is starting the second phase of a project aimed to accelerate its carbon reduction and achieve that target to try to tackle climate council produced a Local Area Energy Plan (LAEP) in December 2022, which models the current and future energy demands of the a council climate change and environment scrutiny meeting, phase two of the LAEP was presented to the committee, with an aim to procure a partner to deliver city-wide transformative net zero projects. 'Is it achievable?' It is hoped that this will bring investment and drive forward carbon reduction at scale and pace, the council Local Democracy Reporting Service said the meeting heard the council's carbon emissions had reduced by 28.6% since 2018-19, when the unitary authority declared a climate Phase Two aimed to build on the experience of other councils, including Bristol City Council which has procured a 20-year commercial partnership to deliver net zero projects across the city. At the meeting, Liberal Democrat councillor Ann Shaheed asked how confident the Labour-led council was that it could attract a similar amount of Swinburne, climate change manager at the council, said: "What we are proposing here has very little financial risk. This is just an outline of what we propose to do with much more information to be brought forward for councillors in time."It's not necessarily an additional £8.8bn; it is just that as a city we already invest significantly into our energy systems."The Peterborough economy actually has quite a significant value and the £8.8bn number doesn't look as scary when you look at it over a period of decades."Labour councillor Zameer Ali asked if the project was realistically Swinburne said: "That is why we'd like to spend the next few months exploring that question. It has been achievable across Bristol."If it is achievable, then we'll be in a good position to be one of the first fast followers come this time next year." Sign up for our Future Earth newsletter to get exclusive insight on the latest climate and environment news from the BBC's Climate Editor Justin Rowlatt, delivered to your inbox every week. Outside the UK? Sign up to our international newsletter here. Follow Peterborough news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
