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Practical help for Local Authorities Amber Moss & Debbie Marock

Practical help for Local Authorities Amber Moss & Debbie Marock. Overview. Overview of Practical help LAs using and promoting renewables Main EST programmes Questions/Discussion/Your experiences. Website. Ph: Other Services.

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Practical help for Local Authorities Amber Moss & Debbie Marock

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  1. Practical help for Local • Authorities • Amber Moss & Debbie Marock

  2. Overview • Overview of Practical help • LAs using and promoting renewables • Main EST programmes • Questions/Discussion/Your experiences

  3. Website

  4. Ph: Other Services • We’ll answer any enquiry regarding sustainable energy and environmentally-friendly transport • Fortnightly email update (currently 1800 recipients) • Newsletter issued quarterly • Briefing notes and case studies • Toolkits

  5. What is renewable energy? • Energy from a resource that is virtually inexhaustible, which in the UK can include energy from: • The sun in the form of fuel crops, wind power, hydro power, wave power and solar radiation; • The moon in the form of tidal power; • The earth in the form of geothermal energy. • Energy from certain wastes (?)

  6. Political context for renewable energy • Target: 12.5% reduction in greenhouse gasses between 1990 and 2008/12 • Target: 10% renewably-generated electricity by 2010 • Renewable obligation on electricity suppliers main mechanism for higher renewables target • Climate Change Levy on non-domestic fuel bills from 2001 • Planning Policy Guidance 22

  7. What can authorities do? • Purchase green power • Use renewables in own buildings and housing • Promote renewables to general public • Produce supplementary planning guidance

  8. Purchasing renewable electricity • Councils purchasing green electricity include: Lewisham (100%), Stirling, Sandwell, Redbridge, Rotherham, Leicester, Stroud, Ceredigion, Plymouth and Hull • Information on biggest buyers available from www.greenprices.com • Benefits in reducing CCL (generally put 10% on bill)

  9. LA use of renewables Craigavon BC – wind for efficient watersports centre • Energy policy • Winning bid for watersports centre design & build based on cost and energy measures • Two 6kW wind turbines • Disused waterwheel connected up • Funding for renewables provided by NI department for economic development & the sports council

  10. LA use of renewables Small off-grid PV applications in Wales • Ceredigion County Council installed prototype PV school traffic warning signals • 12 installed & 22 planned • Maintenance, installation costs and Running costs improved • Prototype PV powered bus stop light • 14 installed, 25 more planned

  11. LA Solar Water Heating Kirklees and Calderdale, Simply Solar • Funding from EST’s Innovation Programme • Aim: 200 installations per year • One of the suppliers also involved in training plumbers to install the systems • Householders gain from bulk discount prices, plus a grant • Householders must install loft and cavity wall insulation in order to qualify for the grant • After 3 weeks: 38 jobs were confirmed (13 DIY)

  12. Solar Grants • Solar Grants programme provides capital grants for photovoltaic systems • Up to 65% 'fixed' grant funding available to large-scale applications (5kWp to 100 kWp) for public housing and local authority buildings • Awards made quarterly on a competitive basis

  13. Community Energy • CE supports upgrade of existing and installation of new heat networks • Capital grants to cover the cost of system installation • Development grants to cover the cost of investigating the viability of proposed schemes • Schemes must demonstrate carbon reduction • Jointly managed by EST and Carbon Trust - £20 million in 2002/3, £30 million in 2003/4

  14. For other information on renewable energy • Renewable energy enquiries bureau • Renewable Energy advice Service, via selected EEACs • Community renewables initiative (and Scottish CRI) • Clear Skies (funding) • Practical help • www.practicalhelp.org.uk • 0870 241 2089 • Info@practicalhelp.org.uk

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