Ten businesses in the Barrow area are being offered free support to help them cut energy bills and reduce carbon emissions.
Barrow Borough Council is working with Cumbria Action for Sustainability to offer building energy audits and recommendations from experts for reducing energy use and potential for renewable energy generation.
They will also benefit from a carbon footprint calculation, environmental impact audit and bespoke advice on how to reduce the business’s broader carbon emissions.
Molly Hogg, CAfS’ low carbon communities manager, said: “As the county’s climate change charity, we’re really pleased to be supporting the businesses in Barrow to help them identify where they can improve their sustainability, both in terms of energy efficiency in their building and throughout the business, for instance transport and materials.
“We’ll work with each business normally over a two-month period convenient to them so that they can fit the support in at a manageable pace.”
To be eligible for support, the business needs to have a business address within the Barrow Borough Council area. It will be offered on a first-come-first-served basis.
Each business will need to be able to commit to spending some time on the energy saving project between September and the end of February 2023.
Ann Thomson, leader of Barrow Borough Council, said: “This is a superb opportunity to get free, friendly, expert advice on site to help identify the best ways individual businesses across the borough can reduce carbon emissions and cut their energy bills.
“I hope business owners come forward to take advantage of this as soon as possible. With energy prices increasing, this could make a big difference to their costs, as well as helping to put them on a sustainable footing for the future.”
This free support is funded by the European Regional Development Fund as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-2020 and Cumbria Local Economic Partnership Growth Deal programme.
For more information, visit www.cafs.org.uk/for-businesses/cafs-low-carbon-business-support-in-barrow
