Single Topic Discussion: Renewable Energy
A new approach Sustainable Strategic; corporate Positive, enabling policies Slide 2 | Insert the title of your presentation here on the slide master
Key outcomes for today.... We need some key outcomes today: What is the Vision for energy in South Hams? Do we want a RE target? What kind of policy is best? What is our stance on community energy?
The scope of our debate today Enhancing our contribution to energy generation Managing RE development responsibly Our vision for energy & local energy policies Renewables rather than energy efficiency/sustainable construction X The need for/merits of renewable energy X The Government’s policy approach X Detail about the technologies Slide 4 | Insert the title of your presentation here on the slide master
What does Government expect from Local Authorities?
Government aspirations? Key Legislation: Climate Change National targets Act; Energy Acts • 15% energy from renewables by 2020 Key themes: • 30% of electricity from renewable • Energy security sources; • Diversity of • 12% heat demand; and • 10% transport demand supply – including more RE • More community energy/local supply Slide 6 | Insert the title of your presentation here on the slide master
Planning for low carbon and energy – Our Plan must cover..... A low carbon future Use/generation of energy (including heat) Renewables Spatial strategy Energy efficiency Sustainable construction Slide 7 | Insert the title of your presentation here on the slide master
What does the NPPF ask us to do? Key Statements, in summary: have a positive strategy to promote energy from renewable and low carbon sources; design their policies to maximise renewable and low carbon energy... ensuring that adverse impacts are addressed; consider identifying suitable areas for renewable and low carbon energy..... support community-led initiatives for renewable and low carbon energy ... including developments outside such areas being taken forward through neighbourhood planning identify opportunities where development can draw its energy supply from decentralised, renewable or low carbon energy supply systems and for co-locating potential heat customers and suppliers Slide 8 | Insert the title of your presentation here on the slide master
The Local Context...so why is energy important?
Why is energy important?.... Because it’s use impacts on household and business costs (as well as contributing to emissions) Proportion of homes with solid Proportion of households in fuel walls poverty South Hams - 19.6% (2011) Slide 10 | Insert the title of your presentation here on the slide master
Why is energy important? South Hams has limited access to the gas grid. Slide 11 | Insert the title of your presentation here on the slide master
Why is energy important? Average domestic energy bill = £1,500 p.a. In South Hams energy spend by sector is: Non-domestic £49,941,281 Domestic £56,015,694 Transport £110,133,926 By 2022 costs are forecast to rise by 10% Nearly all goes to large national/multi-national enterprises. Can we retain more locally? Slide 12 | Insert the title of your presentation here on the slide master
Indicative Renewable Energy Resources non domestic installations domestic biomass domestic solar/heat (ex biomass) solar pv farms hydro/geothermal wood/non domestic biomass wind 0.0 5.0 10.0 15.0 20.0 25.0 30.0 35.0 Insert the title of your presentation here on the slide master Slide 13 |
How are we doing? Installed capacity 2013 – 26MW; 5MWth Theoretical capacity – 940 MW Only 3% of our theoretical capacity has been developed . 30 25 20 S Hams 15 W Devon 10 5 0 2007 2008 2010 2011 2013 Slide 14 | Insert the title of your presentation here on the slide master
Our Plan: A vision for energy
Infrastructure Maximise Enabling renewable Reduce Energy to support employment energy & carbon security and from contributing to energy emissions resilience environmental national targets development technologies Protection of nearby What do we residents from want to achieve? impacts Conservation IS ANYTHING Who do we need of MISSING? biodiversity, to work with? habitat, landscape Which services are involved? Conservation of cultural and built heritage Energy Community Retain income efficient Eliminate fuel energy from energy Local, homes: Old poverty generation and generation sustainable and new use locally energy
What contribution could South Hams make to renewable energy generation?
The Future? Scenarios for the South West (non domestic generation) Business as Usual 169% increase in capacity 2012-23 3000 15% by 2020 Installed Renewable Energy 2500 Generation, South West 358% increase in capacity 2012-23 Current 2000 Trends Scenario 1500 Applying these forecasts pro-rata 15% by 2020 to South Hams............... 1000 Scenario 500 Business as usual – 88MW by 2031 15% scenario – 140MW by 2031 0
The Future? S Hams, electricity consumption 2011 = 466.3 GWh To achieve 30% of electricity generation from RE sources would mean generating 139.9GWh of renewable electricity. Slide 19 | Insert the title of your presentation here on the slide master
The Future? 30% electricity from renewables: 139.9GWh The “gap” is balance required 140 approximately 91GWh to achieve 30% 120 existing planning 100 permissions 80 50% roof mounted take up 60 current generation 40 20 0 Slide 20 | Insert the title of your presentation here on the slide master
balance required to 140 achieve 30% The Future? 120 existing planning 100 permissions 80 50% roof mounted take The “gap” is equivalent to: 60 up 40 current 20 generation 0 15 2.5MW wind turbines OR 21 5MW solar farms Slide 21 | Insert the title of your presentation here on the slide master
But remember..... In “maximising” our contribution SCALE is important; 1 commercial turbine generates as much as 10 smaller ones. Wind is more efficient than solar. There are currently 2479 non-domestic projects in South Hams – average 10.7KW each. Only 3% of resources have been exploited. Scope to use existing properties for generation, as well as wind and solar resources. Not all development has to be greenfield. Slide 22 | Insert the title of your presentation here on the slide master
But....tensions.... 18.7% of S Hams is Dartmoor NP 38.4% is AONB 83% of S Hams is covered by some form of environmental designation (statutory and non-statutory) Slide 23 | Insert the title of your presentation here on the slide master
A renewable energy target for South Hams? OPPORTUNITIES A positive signal A means of measuring progress Focuses delivery A target for renewable energy? CHALLENGES District-wide target? Changing markets and innovation Community delivery Relating targets to resources target? Discounting theoretical resource without detailed landscape sensitivity work Not a ceiling on development How a target should be expressed Slide 24 | Insert the title of your presentation here on the slide master
A renewable energy target for South Hams? In summary Aspiration to increase delivery above ‘business as usual’ can be expressed in Plan’s Objectives/positive policy phrasing; Take up of RE in existing buildings can be promoted through partnership working/HECA; More active monitoring can demonstrate progress; Work in hand to scope potential for community schemes – target expressed as number of schemes may be poss ible. Slide 25 | Insert the title of your presentation here on the slide master
Discussion 2: Targets Do you support an objective led rather than target led approach? If not, why not? Would you support a community led target – perhaps expressed as numbers of projects coming forward? Slide 26 | Insert the title of your presentation here on the slide master
What sorts of policies do we need?
What sort of policies do we need? 3 inter-related policies........ • an overarching policy – high level to support all low carbon policies in the plan • a policy for renewable energy development (all technologies) • a policy for community led projects Slide 28 | Insert the title of your presentation here on the slide master
What sort of policies do we need? Initial reference in overarching policy: Scope... All development will be expected to contribute to: • Reducing carbon emissions/adapting to extreme weather; • Increasing South Ham’s contribution to national renewable energy targets; • Energy conservation and generation consistent with the energy hierarchy and emerging zero carbon proposals; • Sustainable construction and resource management. Slide 29 | Insert the title of your presentation here on the slide master
What sort of policies do we need? Renewable energy Essential questions to answer • Can we identify or direct technologies to particular areas? Is there a role for mapping? • What criteria could we use? • How can we stimulate take up of renewable technologies in existing (as well as new) development? Slide 30 | Insert the title of your presentation here on the slide master
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