Parkside Pools Energy Saving Works Completed
This all began in March 2021, when the government announced that they were going to pump £100 Million into supporting the recovery of the leisure centres after the financial hit that was taken from Covid-19. On the back of this, the government also opened up to funding to help centres across the UK go carbon neutral.
From this with work from the Cambridge City Council they received a whopping £1.7 Million in funding to help the two biggest centres in Cambridge go one step closer to becoming carbon neutral.
Works began in 2022 to put this funding to the best use possible and to help make a positive impact on the environment.
- First we installed brand new LED lighting installed throughout the whole centre which are roughly 75% more efficient that the previous lighting
- New batch of solar panels installed on the roof of the building to harness renewable energy
- Air Source heat pumps installed at the back and on the roof of the facility so that all of the heating for our building and water will now be generated from the air rather than us using gas boilers, and disposing of carbon into the atmosphere.
The LED lighting throughout the centre, was installed back in Feb 2022, and they replaced old power hungry bulbs with new and efficient energy saving bulbs.
The new solar panels were installed back in March 2022, and were turned on, on the 22nd of July; this now means that whilst the sun is shining, it is helping to power our leisure centre. Again this means that we are not buying more electricity from the grid, making us all that more sustainable.
Our newest installation of the Air source heat pumps have now been turned on since Autumn 2022 which are further helping with our steps to becoming Carbon Neutral as we no longer have to rely on our Gas boiler for much of our heating in the building.
We would like to thank our partners at the Cambridge City Council for making all of this possible, and we look forward to a cleaner and greener future.