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GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE BEGINS AT
HOME FOR SWIMMING POOL PROJECTS
projects then the enthusiasm for Andrew Patterson who insisted
schools and communities who the pool invested in a high
wanted a swimming pool but quality pool cover and switched
wanted the costs to be its heating to a bio mass option.
controlled, reduce energy savings The project which provides
and not damage the swimming facilities for over 10
environment have been local schools in the Bolton area
encouraging,” he said. spent six months working on a
“We have had some stunning study to reduce energy savings
successes. I think the point we and succeeded in beating its
continually make is that energy target savings by 20%.
conservation is a local and a The Swim School a private
people issue. There are bigger swimming school providing one-
schemes which attract attention to-one tuition and swimming
but the problems are going to be classes for more than 800
solved by thousands of small children per week had heating
projects which show the public’s and ventilating bills, which were
real enthusiasm for their future costing nearly £6,000 per year.
of the environment. The Swim School applied for
He said the best way the trust an interest-free loan from the
was able to help pool projects Carbon Trust in order to replace
was to encourage them to: the present heating and
• Renegotiate the electricity ventilation system. The new,
contract with the supplier and modern ventilation packaged
consider using green energy unit would incorporate heat
• Install efficiency controls to exchange between the supply
boilers and replacing damaged and extract air, enabling 55% of
heating insulation the heat to be recovered.
• Introduce an energy Although the cost of the new
monitoring system heating and ventilation system
• Install pool covers was nearly £10,000. The Swim
School will reduce its energy
Impulse Leisure, a trust providing expenditure by more than £3,500
leisure facilities in the Thurrock per year as well as reducing
area, was spending £190,000 carbon emissions by nearly 3
heating its swimming pools. The tons – enough to fill a row of
Carbon Trust found that by using terraced houses.
pool covers outside of operating Based on these yearly energy
hours, the group could save more savings, the initial loan from the
than £18,000 in annual energy Carbon Trust will be paid back in
The climate change projects which save energy and bills. In order to finance the pool less than three years, and all
conference in Copenhagen was reduce the carbon footprint hold covers, totalling nearly £42,000, further savings on the company’s
rightly billed by governments as the key to the changes. the company applied for a energy bill will go directly to the
one of the most important The Trust has raised the profile Carbon Trust loan. bottom line.
meetings on the planet. of swimming pools in energy The Trust recommended pool Owner Glyn Booth said, “The
The huge problem of conservation by confirming that covers were bought for each site, Carbon Trust loan was ideal. The
conserving the world’s natural some of the most successful loan reducing evaporation from the application process was quick
resources presented a challenge schemes it has funded have been surface of the pools when the and easy. It allowed us to address
of huge proportions. for “small but hugely successful pools were not in use, the problem of efficient
But the reality is that the and satisfying swimming pool minimising heat losses. The ventilation without impacting
change will be made by community and schools projects”. reduction in evaporation led to a negatively on our cashflow. The
hundreds of thousands of small A spokesman for the trusts reduced need for ventilation and reduction in our gas bill and
scale projects. The influential confirmed that loans made to dramatic savings. maintenance costs ensures we
Carbon Trust, the independent fund swimming pool projects up A community pool project in will make considerable savings at
not-for-profit company set up by and down the country had been Bolton was able to reduce its a time when fuel bills are
the UK Government says that the rewarding. heating bills b y £11,000 a year soaring. The new system also has
trend of individuals working on “If we look back on some of thanks to the commitment and the advantage of being
energy saving schemes , local the most successful small enthusiasm of project leader environmentally friendly.”
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