London mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan says he wants ‘to be the greenest mayor London has ever had’, stating that if he is successful in the May 2016 election he will support local renewable energy generation schemes and the green technology industry in the city.

5 February 2016 – Labour’s Mayoral Candidate, Sadiq Khan, has today (Friday) published his plans for a clean energy revolution in the city.

Speaking on a visit to the Islington Bunhill Energy Centre, Sadiq Khan announced ‘Energy for Londoners’, a not-for-profit company that will take a lead on clean and green energy across the city.

He used the launch to pledge to be the ‘greenest Mayor London has ever had’.

He also rounded on the outgoing Mayor for having ‘squandered a fantastic green legacy’ and leaving London as a ‘middle- ranking global city at best’.

He made the announcement on a visit to the construction of Phase 2 of the Bunhill Energy Centre in Islington, a district heating scheme, which will draw heat from the Tube to warm over 1000 homes.

Sadiq Khan, Labour’s candidate for Mayor of London, said: “I want to be the greenest Mayor London has ever had. I want my daughters to grow up in a city that is cleaner and greener, in which people aren’t dying because the air is so filthy. But I also want London to be at the cutting edge of new green technologies, generating the growth and jobs of the future.

“Energy for Londoners will bring a renewed focus to our drive to make London a cleaner, greener city.

“It will expand the use of solar across the city, and support communities who want to set up their own green energy generation schemes. And it will roll out schemes like the Bunhill Energy Centre that take waste heat from the tube and make the most of buildings across the city to generate energy from solar.

“All of this will help London reduce its carbon emissions and generate more of its own energy in a much cleaner way.

“Building a cleaner, greener city will only come about through leadership from the top. For eight years, London has lacked that leadership.

“We’ve gone from being a global leader on environmental issues to a middle-ranking global environmental city at best. The Tories have squandered a fantastic green legacy and I’m doubly determined to make London once again a beacon to the world.”

For further information, please visit www.sadiq.london or www.london.gov.uk