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In November 2020, the City of London Corporation signed a power purchase agreement with Voltalia under which the governing body of the Square Mile will buy all the electricity produced by a new-build solar farm for 15 years.
The deal, the first of its kind in the UK to be signed directly between a renewables producer and a governing authority, will help City of London provide cheaper, sustainable and more secure electricity supply protected from the price volatility of energy markets.
The solar plant will have a total capacity of 49.9 megawatts – enough to power the equivalent of 15,000 UK homes – and will provide over half the City Corporation’s electricity needs, powering buildings including its historic Guildhall, three wholesale markets and the Barbican Arts Centre.
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Resilience was once held to be a virtue, epitomised by the stiff upper lip. Today a self-indulgent eagerness to emote is more likely to attract approval. It is a depressing trend that has been reinforced by the Covid pandemic.
Too often real suffering and loss have been matched by endless carping from those who have experienced little genuine hardship. Miller s generation endured six years of brutal war. All that some of today s Covid generation have endured is a year spent watching Netflix.
The impulse for unjustified wailing is highlighted in the current row over robust comments made by Jeremy Mayhew, the finance chairman of the City of London Corporation, which runs the globally renowned Barbican Arts Centre.