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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• 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
• 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 (?)
What is renewable energy?
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
What can authorities do?• Purchase green power• Use renewables in own buildings and
housing• Promote renewables to general public• Produce supplementary planning guidance
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)
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
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 stoplight
• 14 installed, 25 more planned
LA Solar Water HeatingKirklees 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)
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
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
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– [email protected]