Clean Local Energy
Strategic outcomes
- Coventry’s energy supply increasingly coming from local green sources
- Coventry residents and businesses having reduced exposure to global energy market pressures
- Community energy generation and efficiency schemes encouraged and supported
- Positioning Coventry as a sustainable, energy resilient and investable future city for business and development
- Decarbonising heat across the city
To achieve the objective of increasing the volume of clean, locally generated energy that is consumed within Coventry, we will prioritise projects that align with one or more of the strategic outcomes.
Local renewable energy generation and heat decarbonisation
Energy generation highlights
- Increasing the amount of locally generated energy from renewable sources, primarily from solar photovoltaic installations
- Reducing the volume of energy required by users through energy efficiency measures
- Providing contractual offerings that are designed to make the cost of energy more predictable and plannable, reducing energy market pressures
Heat decarbonisation highlights
- Transitioning the generation of heat towards technology that either reduces or eliminates the use of carbon-based fuels
- Connecting the city via new sources of heat - E.ON expects to utilise 5th generation heat and cooling infrastructure via the use of its custom-built solutions
- Increasing the efficiency and effectiveness for individual heat generation systems, including through the electrification of heat