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Quoting directly from your website: ‘Carbon emissions in 2022/23 were 56% lower than in 2012/13 thanks to a number of measures including retrofitting of nine of our buildings, the roll-out of LED lights on streetlighting and traffic signals and upgrading some of our vehicle fleet to electric vehicles’. Can you: (a) provide details of how you arrived at a figure of 56% lower carbon emissions from 2013 to 2023. How did you measured this? We follow the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol, which sets the global standard for how to measure, manage and report a carbon footprint. You can view the protocol at Homepage | GHG Protocol (b) How much did it cost in £ sterling; – to retrofit the nine buildings Zero Carbon Buildings project delivered five retrofitted buildings at a cost of £3.1million. 88% of this was central government funded. The Zero-Energy Building Catalyst 2 project delivered four retrofitted buildings at a cost of £1.6million. 56% of this was central government funded. The total cost was £4.7million, £3.6million of which was externally funded. All of these buildings had heating systems at the end of their useful life. The replacement costs of traditional technologies is unknown but would have been significant. – for the LED lights on streetlighting and traffic signals, and; The approximate cost is £9 million. – upgrading of the vehicle fleet to electric vehicles Diesel vehicles are replaced at the end of their useful life. The additional cost of purchasing an electric van over a replacement diesel van has been approximately £10,000. Today that difference is about £5,000. By March 2023 there were 18 electric vehicles in the fleet. The approximate cost of this policy was therefore £180,000. (c) What would the difference in expenditure £ sterling have been of not doing the above but continuing as is activity e.g. keeping diesel vehicles, not influenced by Climate Emergency (your words) activity. Buildings: The 9 retrofitted buildings are estimated to be reducing energy and maintenance costs by £315,000 per annum. Street Lighting: Annual saving is £6m. A cabinet paper explaining this further is available at Street Lighting Trial Update and Future Policy Considerations.pdf Vehicles: At current electricity and diesel prices each electric vehicle is reducing fuel costs by about £1k per year.
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