They include installing solar canopies in car parks, re-starting a previous programme of fitting rooftop solar panels to properties and developing solar farms.
The Hull University Hospitals Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has paved the way locally on solar farm development having recently installed almost 11,000 ground-mounted panels on land near Castle Hill hospital in Cottingham.
They have been designed to help generate a third of the total energy requirements of the hospital, meeting all of its daytime demand during the summer months. However, the city council's most ambitious scheme within its £16m green energy programme is to develop its own wind turbines.
While Hull has become famous in recent years for manufacturing offshore wind turbine blades, the council's acquisition of the former McBride aerosol factory in Sutton Fields three years ago was seen as an early move to secure a potential onshore wind farm site. It lies next to a depot in Stockholm Road shared by the council's main highways section and the council-owned building, repair and maintenance firm KWL.
Now three specialist firms have been appointed by the council to assess the feasibility of sites it owns for potential green energy projects.
Wardell Armstrong LLP will be in charge of examining council land for the installation of wind turbines.
Ian Gillard, the company's associate director for energy and climate change, said: "Wind energy is a mature renewable energy source that has been successfully deployed in many countries.
"The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates wind power could grow to meet more than 20 percent of global electricity demand in 2050.
"This shows the importance of investing in and scaling up wind power capacity."
EvoEnergy Ltd. will assess the feasibility of solar canopies while the Locogen Group will look at options for rooftop solar panels and solar farms.
A former landfill site in Bransholme has already been identified as one potential location for a large solar farm. Hull Daily Mail - link - Angus Young - link - more like this - link
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