The Newark and Oreton regions will promote the installation of solar panels

Recently, the relevant council passed a plan to promote the application of renewable energy in social housing.

The Newark and Sherwood District parliamentary cabinets have approved plans to install solar photovoltaic panels at Gladstone House in Newark and Broadleaf Hotel in Oreton, both of which are part of the Care Housing Program. At the same time, relevant departments will add £ 217000 to the investment plan of the Basic Human Resources Management Bureau, which will come from the Major Repairs Reserve.

The above suggestions were proposed after the energy review, which identified several areas that could save energy, including installing solar panels and improving energy supply rates.

Gladstone House has a total of 60 apartments, while Broadleaf Hotel has 30 apartments, both of which have housing care plans. The housing care plans for both buildings include providing heated internal corridors, air-conditioned rest areas, commercial kitchens, and laundry facilities. However, due to the high energy consumption of the aforementioned services, the landlord's costs have also skyrocketed. At the same time, global energy prices are also rising, thereby raising the electricity costs in two regions. But it also provides opportunities for both regions to shift towards environmentally friendly energy and reduce the public costs created by high energy consuming facilities for tenants.

Cabinet member Keith Melton said, "This is the responsibility of the entire committee, the responsibility of the entire region, and what I want to do is promote solar panels and promote the rapid development of renewable energy."

The installation of solar panels is expected to generate over 225000 kilowatt hours of electricity annually, thereby reducing carbon emissions by over 4.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent annually. This plan is consistent with the Council's commitment to achieve net zero carbon emissions after declaring a climate emergency in 2019. The cost savings from installing solar panels will be monitored and reported through budget monitoring in 2024/25 after installation.

"I fully support the recommendations in this report," said Emma Oldham. "We must fulfill our responsibilities and protect these new energy sites in order to cope with the constantly rising and unpredictable energy costs."

In community research, most tenants expressed a positive view that installing solar panels helps protect the environment, and they also believe that solar panels will reduce the energy costs of the community, further reducing the service fees that tenants need to pay.

At the same time, the council has also proposed several initiatives aimed at reducing or offsetting its carbon emissions, including a commitment to invest over £ 1 million in green initiatives by the end of this fiscal year. The council has also proposed a building decarbonization plan, which will install solar panels in five locations in the region and invest £ 2.6 million to support the social housing decarbonization plan, Promote tenants using petroleum or liquefied petroleum gas heating systems to replace the energy in the system with carbon neutral alternatives.