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Reducing Shoreham’s CO2 Footprint

Shoreham Port regularly assesses its environmental impact to develop strategies to reduce its carbon footprint. All new buildings at the port in the last ten years – transit sheds, industrial and commercial units have been designed to take a full array of solar panels, with a total of 2.6 Megawatts (peak) of panels installed so far.

Shoreham Port regularly assesses its environmental impact to develop strategies to reduce its carbon footprint. All new buildings at the port in the last ten years – transit sheds, industrial and commercial units have been designed to take a full array of solar panels, with a total of 2.6 Megawatts (peak) of panels installed so far. That’s enough to keep about 3,000 average residential properties supplied. All new commercial developments – 26 small units of an average 150 square metres each under development this year – also come with built-in electric car charging points.

Two 100-kilowatt wind turbines have been installed close to the port’s pumphouse, their largest consumer of electricity and in an averagely windy year, these will supply about 550,000 kilowatt-hours, or units, of electricity – more than the pumphouse uses.

Shoreham Port are also looking into the potential for second-life battery energy storage with the intention that they shall increase the proportion of their renewable energy production locally by being better able to match supply to demand.

ENVIRONMENTAL TAGS: Renewable Energy