Current Projects
Projects within the HQE Programmes that are currently underway include:
The Winchester Declaration on Climate Change is the pledge for organisations to cut their own carbon footprint.
An award winning, energy efficiency detecting vehicle, which helps homeowners pinpoint escaping heat in their homes, has hit the roads in the Winchester District.
Winchester has agreed to participate in the Hampshire-wide Area Based Insulation Scheme.
Work is underway to ensure that the Local Development Framework Core Strategy includes policies to properly address climate change.
Winchester City Council is working with Hampshire County Council to investigate the possibilities for a Combined Heat and Power/District Energy scheme in Winchester City Centre.
Winchester City Council is investigating the possibility of working with partners to provide solar photo voltaic (PV) panels to Council owned buildings.
Winchester City Council will investigate the possibility of installing hydro electricity generating equipment in Durngate Mill races.
Winchester City Council will investigate the possibility of installing hydro electricity generating equipment in Abbey Mill.
We aim to have one or more Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) in the area to help facilitate the installation and operation of renewable energy technologies in the district.
Securing additional sources of finance for renewable energy projects will be key to accelerating the uptake of renewables.
In addition to the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions urgently in order to avoid the worst impacts of climate change (mitigation), there is also a need to prepare for the climate change over the next few decades that we are now locked into because of past greenhouse gas emissions (adaptation).
Encouraging individuals, businesses and public sector organisations to pledge to cut their carbon footprint.
Winchester City Council commissioned a Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) for the district - a large and varied area which extends from Winchester to Micheldever in the north, and to Waterlooville in the south-east.