Thank you to those of you who submitted applications under our 2007-8 pilot grant programme.

We are pleased to announce that 250 colleges were successful in their applications with the LSC funding over 1200 separate projects valued at more than £22million.

CO2 savings from these projects are expected to realise in excess of 350000 tonnes over their lifetime.

Eastleigh College
Salix, through its SEELS programme, has supported a number of projects at Eastleigh College to the value of £190,000, including boiler upgrades, cavity wall insulation, power optimisation, pipe insulation, heating controls, lighting and lighting controls.

The college stands to save £600,000 and 2,500 tonnes of CO2 over the lifetime of these technologies.

City of Sunderland College
Boiler replacement costing £345,000 will save well over £1million and almost 4.5 tonnes CO2.

South Tyneside College
The college is installing new boilers, heating pipework insulation, thin computers and building management systems giving a total lifetime saving of almost 7,000 tonnes of CO2 and over 93,000 per annum. These technologies will continue to save money for between five and 22 years.