03/14/2023 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 03/14/2023 05:57
Local organisations across the UK to share £27.5k of funding.
The UK's largest regional airline, Loganair, has announced the latest winners of its groundbreaking GreenSkies Community Fund, with six projects across the UK sharing just over £27,500 in support of local renewable energy projects.
The successful applicants span the length and breadth of Loganair's domestic network, from Unst, in Shetland to the New Forest, on the south-central coast of England, via the Isle of Man.
A solar-powered robot lawnmower, EV charging points and ground source heating are among the renewables solutions that will be funded by Loganair to help local organisations cut carbon emissions and reduce their energy bills.
The GreenSkies Community Fund is part of Loganair's environmental programme, which includes measures ranging from carbon offsetting to investing in future flight technologies to help achieve an ambitious target of becoming net zero by 2040.
The second round of the scheme, which closed at the end of October 2022, brings to £57,500, the amount invested by Loganair in community renewables.
This year's winners are:
Luke Lovegrove, chief commercial officer at Loganair, said:
"Congratulations to each of the very worthy winners of our latest GreenSkies Community Fund grants. Their innovative plans to introduce renewable energy will have a positive impact on local communities as well as the environment.
As an airline, we are at the forefront of driving forward new technologies to mitigate the impact of flying and progress our target of becoming net zero by 2040. It means a great deal to also take the lead in communities across our network and support their ambitions to reduce carbon emissions as well as tackle energy bills."
Loganair's GreenSkies programme was launched in July 2021 with the introduction of a small mandatory carbon offsetting charge levied on all flights, with the money invested in accredited offsetting schemes.
The airline is involved in a wide range of additional initiatives to manage and mitigate the environmental impact of flying and is the only UK regional carrier participating in the UK Government's "Jet Zero Council" initiative to de-carbonise air travel.