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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, October 14, 2019

QUESTION NO. 1

QUESTION: Councillor Carly Bailey

To ask the Chief Executive for a report on the SDCC local authority energy consumption rates for the last two years and whether it is believed that SDCC is in line to meet its 2020 target.

REPLY:

Energy consumption for South Dublin County Council for 2017 was 52.809 Gwhrs. Energy consumption in 2018 was 50.598 Gwhrs . This is a reduction of 4.25% on the 2017 figure. South Dublin County Councils gap-to-target towards achieving 33% energy reduction by 2020 is 4.488 Gwhrs and will require the delivery through 2020 of a number of projects as follows

• Delivery of first phase of Tallaght District Heating project.
• Delivery of Energy-Performance contracts for Tallaght and Clondalkin leisure centres.
• Replacement of lighting in County Hall with LED fiitings

Replacement of not less than 4,000 additional streetlights with LED fittings