Are all/some financial savings from energy efficiency investments reinvested in further energy work?
Energy efficiency projects will reduce your carbon emissions but also save your authority money on fuel costs. This financial saving should be ring-fenced for reinvestment in further energy efficiency work, to help provide ever increasing savings. The Salix funding scheme works on this basis – visit www.salixfinance.co.uk for further information or click to read guidance on funding. What you can expect to achieve Local authorities participating in the Carbon Trust’s Local Authority Carbon Management Programme have set an average target for carbon emissions reduction of 22% over five years.