The Carbon Trust is now working with more than 200 Local Authorities to cut carbon and slash energy bills.

Seventy four more local authorities from across England and Scotland are set to collectively cut their carbon footprints by 518,000 tonnes and energy costs by £50 million by joining the sixth year of the Carbon Trust’s Local Authority Carbon Management Programme (LACM) which launches today.

Forward-thinking electrical distributors could think of this as an opportunity to slant their sales efforts towards energy efficiency products and services. Local authorities and partner organisations together represent massive purchasing power and the move towards energy reduction measures is set to become increasingly important over time.

The Carbon Trust is now working with 215 of the UK’s 468 local authorities – around 45 per cent – to assess the risks and opportunities posed by climate change and develop a robust strategy to drastically reduce their carbon footprints over a five to ten year period.

Through the previous five years of the LACM programme, the Carbon Trust worked with 141 local authorities, identifying annual savings of more than £70 million and 861,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide across all sites involved. Many of the new participants can expect to reduce their energy bills by up to 20 per cent.

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