Green Solutions is a programme that offers support to businesses in South Staffordshire to enable you to take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Green Solutions is funded by the Council’s UK Shared Prosperity Fund allocation and Staffordshire County Council.
You can access support for any of the following:
- Carbon Literacy Training. This FREE 8-hour training course will provide you the knowledge and skills to take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. You can choose whether to attend an in-person or online course, and the training is accredited by the Carbon Literacy Project, you can book a place on the course on their website.
- Energy Efficiency Review. This FREE review will look at your energy consumption and provide you with recommendations to save money and reduce your carbon emissions.
- Low Carbon Grant. A grant of between £1,000 and £20,000 (cover up to 50% of eligible costs) is available per business to implement any of the recommendations from the Energy Efficiency Review.
This list is of example of technologies and is not exhaustive:
Ventilation (fans, distribution, destratification fans)
Heating (replacement boilers, burners, heat pumps)
Renewable technologies and battery storage*
Lighting (LED, controls, sensors)
Refrigeration
Compressors
Insulation
Recycling & Waste (compactors, balers & crushers)
Water management
Other buildings measures e.g. glazing
Cooling Controls
Equipment upgrades Hot water efficiency measures
Humidification
Small appliances
Submetering where monitoring of an energy consuming process could drive reductions in consumption
The following dates for carbon literacy training are now available:
Wednesday, May 15th, 2024 and Thursday, May 16th, 2024 online - from 9.30am until 1.30pm
Thursday June 13th, 2024 in person - from 8.30am until 5.30pm
Wednesday July 10th, 2024 and Thursday July 11th, 2024 online - from 9.30am until 1.30pm
Please note: our online CLT courses are for two four-hour morning sessions on consecutive days.
For more information and to register your interest click here