The completed stations are now saving 242 tonnes of CO2 and around £50,000 per year.
 
London Fire Brigade is the first participating organisation to complete the first wave of buildings in the RE:FIT scheme, which also includes Transport for London and the Met Police, and a total of 42 Greater London Authority Group buildings which are being retrofitted.

The Mayor has pledged another 58 buildings to the RE:FIT programme.
 
The green measures will cut energy bills at the fire stations and will mean that new technology will pay for itself.

Crucially, the scheme also includes guaranteed pay back from the energy services contractor, who carried out the work, if savings are slower than forecast.

The technology fitted includes photovoltaic panels, motion sensing lights and energy efficient boilers.

London Fire Brigade’s green projects have led to savings of £260,000 in 2009/10 and over £1 million since the Brigade started focusing on the need to be greener. Despite the organisation growing overall, carbon emissions on their buildings are down by over 18 per cent on 1990s levels.
 
The picture shows the mayor visiting Ilford fire station, the first building to take part in the RE:FIT programme in December 2009.
 
The ten stations are (% of carbon emissions saved at each are in brackets): Greenwich (27%), Heston (23%), Holloway (23%), Homerton (24%), Ilford (44%), Norbury (24%), North Kensington (16%), Romford (11%), Westminster (26%) and Woodford (30%).

The purpose of RE:FIT – formerly known as the Building Energy Efficiency Programme – is to assist public bodies to reduce carbon emissions from their buildings to help London achieve its overall target of cutting carbon emissions by 60 per cent by 2025.

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