Energy & Net Zero
Awards celebrate efforts of ‘energy-savvy organisations’
A university and a local authority-owned market are among the winners of national awards that recognise organisations that go the extra mile for energy efficiency.
Bolton Market, which won the ‘innovative saver’ category in last year’s Love Energy Savings Awards, took the ‘super saver’ gong this year for the changes it has made to reduce energy consumption.
Four things you didn’t know were powered by renewable energy
The innovative use of renewable energy continues to make headlines; most recently with the completed round-the-world flight of Solar Impulse, a plane powered completely by solar energy. Upon its return to Abu Dhabi at the end of July, the pilot memorably said: ‘The future is clean. The future is you. The future is now. Let’s take it further.’
With the pressure to reduce our carbon emissions mounting as countries across the globe set ambitious climate change targets, governments and businesses are doing everything they can to be greener. Here Phil Foster from Love Energy Savings shares four innovative projects that you probably didn’t know could be powered by renewable energy.
1. A cycle path
In 2014 the Netherlands created a 70-metre path between the suburban towns of Wormerveer and Krommenie which was installed with solar panels built in.
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