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The Norwich Solar System
Norwich, the vibrant City of Stories, is taking a bold step towards a net-zero carbon future with the innovative Norwich Solar System. This visionary project, undertaken in collaboration with the Norwich Eco Hub and Synfo and funded by the County Council’s Norfolk Investment Framework, aims to establish what may be the UK’s largest urban solar farm by harnessing the potential of suitable commercial rooftop space across all eight districts of the city.
Norwich has around 100,000 buildings, with 31% non-residential. Of these, the Norwich BID area consists of over 700 levy paying businesses spanning 293ha, representing a large proportion of the energy usage in the city centre. The surge in energy prices, coupled with net zero aspirations presents an urgent opportunity to explore new forms of low carbon, low-cost energy for Norwich.
The Norwich Solar System is a really exciting initiative to see if we could turn Norwich businesses’ redundant roof space into, potentially, the UK’s largest urban solar farm. We know that energy is one of the biggest costs and challenges to businesses today, so working with Synfo and Norwich Eco Hub, we have found that installing solar panels on 307 roofs could avoid the production of 25,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide entering our atmosphere, the equivalent of removing the emissions of 145 million car miles over 25 years. This is just one way in which we are supporting our businesses reach net zero carbon as part of Net Zero Norwich.
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