Dec 14 2010
Leads City Council has brought out a novel scheme to tackle the issues related to climatic changes, increasing heat of the earth and to reduce the use of fossil fuels that are fast depleting. The council has thought about a pilot scheme to power 1,000 houses of its tenants by erecting solar panels over the roof of the houses.
The novel scheme developed by the City Council in collaboration with CES, a local non-government agency, currently waiting for its approval will drastically lessen the power bills of the select 1,000 homes.
On receiving the approval, the City Council will first identify the homes suitable for the installation of solar panels. CES will erect the solar panels over the roof tops of the chosen homes, observe the energy generation from the installations and provide maintenance services for a period of 25 years. It is anticipated that the energy produced from the installed solar panels will allow the tenants to save over £100 every year and the extra power produced by the system will be diverted and traded to the National Grid. The CES and the Council will apportion the additional income generated through government incentives and divert it back to the scheme for the purpose of expanding it. On achieving success, the scheme will be extended to all the council-tenants and home owners to enlarge the availability of benefits.
The advocates of the scheme believe that if the scheme covers enough residents to install 10,000 solar PV panels then it can benefit the council to finance the wall cavity or loft insulation of nearly 64,500 houses to help them with better insulation, to conserve around £11million a year otherwise would have been spent on fuels and to offset 68,000 tons of carbon dioxide releases every year.