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Sept 2021
Approval for 420 solar panels to be installed at Harrogate Hydro
Harrogate Borough Council has given approval for 420 solar panels to be installed on the town’s Hydro leisure centre.
The move is part of a wider decarbonisation initiative, which could also see 1,000 solar panels installed at Harrogate Convention Centre.
Council officials said in planning documents that the panels will help to improve energy efficiency and cut emissions at the ageing facility, which replaced the old Coppice Valley pool when it opened in 1999.
It added that the scheme could reduced the council's annual Co2 emissions by 577 tonnes.
The council successfully bid this year for funding from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy‘s public sector decarbonisation scheme, which will help fund the panels.
The bid saw the council granted £2.4 million for projects at the Hydro and convention centre.
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A total of £1.8 million will be spent at The Hydro to install the solar panels as well as replace gas boilers with air source heat pumps and put in place new energy monitoring and control systems.
Kathryn Daly, head of place-shaping and economic growth at the council, previously said:
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