Caroline Acton

Director @Met Office

Edinburgh, GB

Energy for Edinburgh, an arms-length City of Edinburgh Council organisation focusing exclusively on sustainable energy.Setting up an ESCo is a key plank of the Council\'s Sustainable Energy Action Plan (SEAP) 20••••20, whose overarching target is to slash carbon emissions by 42% by 2020 (from 2005 levels)- the most ambitious target in the UK. Energy for Edinburgh\'s principal function will be to identify and deliver the SEAP projects across the five programmes. It has four prinicpal objectives- reduce carbon emissions- deliver affordable energy (with a particular focus on alleviating fuel poverty)- generate income- encourage wider community benefits