Council signs contract for £14m decarbonisation project
Leeds City Council has selected leading energy and water services company Cenergist to deliver a £14 million carbon reduction upgrade to 30 schools, offices and leisure centres across the city.
The project is part of the city council’s ambition is to reduce Leeds’ direct emissions to net-zero by 2030, and aims to reduce the city’s carbon emissions by nearly 4,000 tonnes.
Councillor James Lewis, leader of Leeds City Council, added: “The decarbonisation project is a great step in the right direction for Leeds. With our aim to halve our own emissions by 2025, it has become increasingly important for us to protect and create hundreds of skilled green jobs in local businesses, as we work to build a sustainable economic recovery. Looking to the future and with our partner Cenergist, we are set to achieve significant carbon and energy savings, as well as notable cost reductions and improved backlog maintenance management.”
The works which include the installation of Air Source Heat Pumps, heat optimisation, plant room and pipework upgrades as well as LED lighting, will be conducted by Cenergist and are due to be completed by the end of September 2021.
Dan Ludgate, Director of Energy Infrastructure at Cenergist added: “We are delighted to partner with Leeds City Council to help deliver its ambitious net zero target for 2030. Heat pump and water efficiency technologies will play a key role in meeting decarbonisation goals and it is great to work with one of the leading local authorities in this area.”
Leeds City Council’s chief executive Tom Riordan is one of a number of civic and business leaders taking part in Yorkshire’s leading sustainability conference, In The Circle, on 19 May.
Riordan will be speaking at the session entitled Bringing COP to Yorkshire: How our regions respond to the challenge alongside Nick Baker, deputy director of business and engagement at COP26 Unit, Simon Pringle, commissioner at Yorkshire & Humber Climate Commission and Emily Gee, research assistant at Royal Holloway and alumni of the University of Sheffield.
The session will look at how the region can foster real change and harness the momentum being generated by COP26 to deliver economic growth.
