{"id":616401,"date":"2026-06-02T04:03:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T04:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/616401\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T04:03:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T04:03:41","slug":"solar-panels-at-north-yorkshire-leisure-centres-will-cut-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/616401\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar panels at North Yorkshire leisure centres &#8216;will cut bills&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 400 panels have also been added at Whitby Leisure Centre, which is currently operated by Everyone Active but is set to become part of Active North Yorkshire in 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Funding was allocated for panels to be installed on 16 community buildings across the region by the Mayor of York and North Yorkshire, David Skaith, following a \u00a31m grant by Great British Energy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Skaith said: &#8220;Lowering bills and improving our environment means that 16 of our region&#8217;s community buildings, such as these facilities in Ripon, Thirsk and Whitby, will spend less on energy and more on what matters \u2013 supporting people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Through the Mayoral Renewables Fund, we are moving in the right direction, towards becoming the first region in England to reach carbon negative by 2040.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last November, North Yorkshire Council approved a \u00a336m to be spent on four sites in Selby, Skipton, Pickering and Whitby as part of a new leisure investment strategy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 400 panels have also been added at Whitby Leisure Centre, which is currently operated by Everyone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-616401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}