The car port, introduced at Dobbies Peterborough in 2011, can generate enough electricity to power a three-bedroom house for a year and includes two electric vehicle charging posts to help customers recharge their car for free when visiting the garden centre.
Many businesses may find that moving into an office is more than they can afford, and may not even suit the nature of their company. Furthermore, the nature of modern business means that there are many options besides office-based working.
Like a retail version of the hit TV show Grand Designs, supermarkets are pushing the envelope when it comes to store design and the green agenda but for old-fashioned reasons: cold hard cash. A report published by the Carbon Trust underlines the key attraction of going down the eco-store route. It claims retailers who invest in renewable energy in their stores could slash their energy bills by more than 20% some incentive when you consider that energy prices are predicted to skyrocket by as much as 37% by 2020.
Green Energy parks have been working hard to address one of the biggest challenges facing the waste management sector at present: Using waste heat from thermal treatment processes, a new venture has been announced, proposing to build a 100-hectare, seven metre-high greenhouse in Storey’s Bar Road, Fengate, which will use heat and gases produced by the firm’s planned energy park next door. The £170 million giant structure,the largest greenhouse in the UK, which GEP bosses claim will be visible from space, will be used to grow and farm food, which could include everything from tomatoes to fish and could create up to 1,500 employment opportunities within the city.
Ultra-green and sustainable office design is proving to have more benefits than just the obvious energy and cost savings. Office workers are also loving the effects and companies are reaping the benefits! In a recent report by The Green Building Council of Australia, employees are reported to feeling healthier and happier working in an environment which adopts efficient and “greener” office design approaches.
Eddie Whitfield, a Spalding farmer, is generating much of the energy needed for its own operations but also generates income from the government’s Feed in Tariff scheme. Eddie was so pleased with the installation that he then asked Lark Energy to install a further 57 panels taking the total installation size to 63kWp. The PV [...]
THE Cambridgeshire and Peterborough local enterprise partnership is almost certain to bid for a slice of a new £500million infrastructure fund set up by the Treasury
Building new homes to greener, low-carbon standards is getting cheaper every year, according to a new report published by the UK Government. The new research, based on interviews with developers and the latest information about environmental technologies, shows the overall extra costs of building new homes to standards set in the Code for Sustainable Homes [...]
As detailed HERE, the Alconbury Enterprise Area was selected by Members of the Greater Cambridge and Greater Peterborough Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) as its preferred option for an Enterprise Zone ahead of Peterborough’s Railway Corridor project.
There is no standard definition for a ‘green’ office so I’ll be putting it in to plain terms and using a lot of common sense. Whilst studying to prepare and publish this post I realised that there is a common fallacy that going ‘green’ automatically means ‘lower quality’
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