Decision details

To award remaining grant funds from the Public Sector Decarbonisation

Scheme (PSDS) to Low Carbon Estates to investigate potential energy

saving projects at the Leisure Centre, Tommy Taylors Lane, Cheltenham

The council was awarded £382,600 by the PSDS to install an integrated

metering network with accompanying software program, in order to reduce

the energy consumption of the authority’s eight largest public buildings.

However, based on the original tender there was approximately £93,000

which has not been required for that project. Salix (the grant funders) agreed

that they would prefer us to explore a way to spend the leftover cash, but

there are very stringent guidelines and only a few months available, which

limited our options.

It was agreed that as the Leisure Centre has the largest

footprint of the buildings, it was best to further invest there, in identifying

savings and further projects.

 Low Carbon Estates had already done a small

amount of investigation at the building already and rather than waste that

intelligence, it was agreed to expand their remit so that CBC could identify

new technology solutions to carbon savings and make further applications

for government investment.

Install additional sub meters - There was no appetite for installing further

meters of the original type in the council’s other buildings, based on ongoing

revenue costs which could not be covered. There was no identifiable

technology which could be easy installed in the time period, based on the

grant guidelines.

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