More than 300 solar panels will be installed at two swimming pools this year.
Adur and Worthing Councils have been awarded over £170,000 to install 322 panels across the Wadurs site in Shoreham and Splashpoint Leisure Centre in Worthing.
The funding comes from Sport England's Swimming Pool Support Fund and will help make the sites more sustainable.
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At Wadurs, in Kingston Broadway, the solar panels will produce more than 70 megawatt hours (MWh) of electricity each year, enough to run the whole facility for nearly six months.
At Splashpoint in Brighton Road they are predicted to produce more than 60 megawatt hours a year.
This will be enough to run the pumps on one of its pools for approximately six months a year.
Adur and Worthing Councils said at both sites combined, the new solar panels will save more than 25 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions a year, which is the equivalent of 1,200 trees being planted annually.
A spokesman for the councils said: "Decarbonising our buildings forms a key part of our missions to be a carbon-neutral council by 2030 and a net zero area by 2045.
"We would like to thank South Downs Leisure, as our operator that delivers sporting facilities at all of our leisure sites, for their enthusiastic support with this project."
Worthing planning committee will decide on August 21 whether to approve the solar panels at the Splashpoint site.
The government's Swimming Pool Support Fund has provided a total of £80 million to local authorities in England to support public leisure facilities with swimming pools.
The money is used to help pools remain open and functioning as well as to help them become more sustainable.
This involves investing in ways to reduce energy consumption and carbon output.
The fund is also used to minimise the closure of swimming pools across the country and to support pools in areas with the greatest socio-economic need.
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