Bosses review City’s energy strategy


Business leaders have given their views about Nottingham’s energy strategy and how to reduce the commercial sector’s carbon emissions.
 
Members of Nottingham Carbon Club, which includes Greater Nottingham’s largest 25 employers, debated future energy options for the business sector at a meeting in the energy efficient No.1 Nottingham Science Park.
 
Nottingham Carbon Club is an initiative run by Nottingham City Council, and managed by their sustainable development team. It assists Nottingham's major businesses to help them meet the cities commitments to lower carbon emissions.
 
Matt Easter, Sustainable Development Manager at Nottingham City Council was Master of Ceremonies at the event which saw Ian Lindley from Enviro-Energy, Jerome Baddeley from Nottingham Energy Partnership and Michael Owers from emda lead discussions on renewable energy, lessons learned from using environmental technology, barriers to commercial use and the support available for businesses to invest in environmental technology.
 
Ideas from the debates are to be fed into Nottingham’s Energy Strategy, which is to be managed by Nottingham City Council.
 
John Long, Blueprint development director, gave delegates a tour of No.1 Nottingham Science Park to showcase the building’s award-winning sustainable features and to demonstrate the options for businesses to reduce carbon emissions and energy bills.
 
The building will significantly reduce operational costs for occupiers and, it is estimated, reduce carbon emissions by around 60% compared with conventional office buildings.
 
No.1 Nottingham Science Park offers space from 1,000 sq ft to 42,000 sq ft for knowledge-based technology businesses with flexible terms to suit the needs of the specialist technology market.
 
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A joint venture between igloo, the world’s first socially responsible property fund, East Midlands Development Agency (emda) and Homes & Communities Agency (HCA), Blueprint is an East Midlands based, 50-50 public-private partnership – a specialist development vehicle with a remit and the resources to deliver sustainable, design-led regeneration projects across the region.

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