Scottish Water has announced that installation of more than 1,300 solar panels at its water treatment works in Loch Ashie is now complete.
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The £450,000 project was delivered by Scottish Water Horizons, the publicly owned water supplier’s commercial subsidiary. It is the first renewable generation project for the company that includes provision of charging points for electric vehicles, which will become a feature of future projects as part of plans to run a fully emissions-free fleet of vehicles by 2040.
Scottish Water Horizons has now delivered more than 45 solar power projects, as well as 20 wind projects, a heat from wastewater project and two biomass projects.
Ian Piggot, project manager, said: “Harnessing solar energy is just one of the many ways we are helping to tackle climate change and contributing to Scottish Water’s ambitious target to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2040.
“The site at Inverness provides a perfect opportunity to install a scheme of this scale, which will have a significant positive impact both on the environmental and financial cost of providing clear, fresh and great-asting drinking water to around 86,000 customers in the Highland Capital and beyond.”
Angus Mackinnon, the supplier’s local water operations team leader, made further comments, saying that charging facilities for electric vehicles will help drive progress with moving the company’s fleets of vans and tankers away from fossil fuels and towards clean electricity.
Scottish Water also has plans in place to deliver Scotland’s daily requirement of over one billion litres of water entirely on renewable energy by 2040. The Net Zero Emissions Roadmap includes commitments to running water and wastewater systems on green power, important since these are very energy intensive.
Over the next 20 years, the company intends to prevent more than three million tonnes of emissions from entering the environment, which is the equivalent of half a million car journeys around the world.
Emissions will be tackled across five key areas – electricity, gas, processes, transport and travel, and investment. It plans to reduce the carbon intensity of its investments (to the tune of £700 million a year) by 75 per cent, with a similar reduction across its supply chain, through the adoption of a zero-emissions design and making use of low carbon construction materials.
The route map does highlight, however, that some emissions cannot be completely eliminated and in these cases, the company will counterbalance and mitigate unavoidable emissions by increasing its strategies to biodiversity through various projects, such as peatland restoration, which can store carbon.
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