Use of funds
The chart below shows how reported project spending has been allocated across eligible green project categories for Warrington Council.
Warrington Borough Council wants to create the UK’s first carbon neutral town.
The council used the money raised to help fund the construction of a solar farm in Cirencester, to generate green power to offset the emissions generated in the borough. The hybrid solar farm is 23MW in size and includes 46MW of battery storage on site. The project went live in late 2022 and has been generating green power ever since.
The chart below shows how reported project spending has been allocated across eligible green project categories for Warrington Council.
The council has been actively working on the climate change agenda for the past decade. During this time, they have taken huge steps forward amid changing attitudes.
The climate and ecological crises are global problems that require action from organisations and individuals everywhere. In 2019, the council declared a climate emergency and committed to take action in the face of these challenges. The Warrington Climate Emergency Commission published a climate emergency strategy for the borough in 2022, which sets out the scale of the challenge we face locally and presents a road map to encourage local climate action.