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Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Jim Fitzpatrick (Labour), on Tuesday, 24 June 1997, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 46 members in total.


SOLAR POWER IN SILVERTOWN

That this House congratulates Peabody Trust, the capital's largest housing association providing homes for 27,000 Londoners, for its joint initiative with Greenpeace on a benchmark solar project which has furnished three terraced home in Silvertown in London's docklands with completely solar-powered resources; notes that each house is expected to save a third of its electricity bills a year - around ??60 - resulting not just in savings for people on low incomes but also helping to protect the climate by utilising a safe and clean renewable resource; and calls on the Government to re-direct the monies currently spent supporting the fossil fuel industry in the United Kingdom to provide capital grants for a national solar programme to deliver a minimum of 50,000 solar-powered homes by 2010.


Secondary information

Type
Early day motion
Reference
167 
Session
1997-98
Subjects
Housing associations London Docklands Solar power Greenpeace Peabody Trust
Link
View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk