1. Councillor Mark Shelford
Executive Member for Sustainability Resilience Transport and Highways
Phone:
Claverton Group/GMP Energy Conference
Why Councils are Challenged by the Concept of Green Energy

2. £ Key Facts & Figures 11.3% 13.5% Resident Employment B&NES England
GVA per worker (2016)
B&NES
707 Enterprises per 10,000 WAP
England
677 Enterprises per 10,000 WAP
Resident Employment
Business Death Rate 2014
1st/8 lowest City-region LEP areas 14th/39 lowest of LEP areas
Professional Scientific & Technical Areas:
B&NES – 26.5%
GB – 20.2%
Manager & Directors:
B&NES – 55.8%
GB – 45.6%
13.5%
Business Birth Rate 2014
6th/8 City-region LEP areas
26th/39 LEP areas
B&NES – £27,683
UK – £26,584
5 Year Business Survival Rate
Degree Level
Bath – 46%
B&NES 46.7%
England
41.4%
West of England – 44%
England – 37%

3. Challenges

4. Challenges Budget 80% Adult and Children Social Services.
Culture – So What Brigade-Spend to save.
A complete shift to very low and zero carbon electricity, mostly renewable, much of it decentralised 50% reduction by 2035
Smarter and more flexible management of demand, including storage, to enable higher penetration of renewables
Huge reductions in energy demand in buildings and the equipment and processes within them (Change in Planning Law/Interpretation - Georgian Buildings)
Decarbonisation of heat
A dramatic rise in use of electric vehicles and other steps to cut the carbon emissions of road transport (NOx v CO2)
Ensuring new build developments ( Especially Affordable/Social Housing) achieve their full low carbon potential and contribute effectively to a smarter energy system

5. Take up of EVs since 2011: WoE vs England
If Residents replaced all their cars
for EV’s Bathnes would need an
extra 18 GW of power.

6. Current Energy Production from Waste
Type of waste
Tonnage
Treatment
Location
Energy produced
Residual
23500
9100t MBT
NES Avonmouth
72% energy recovery, and RDF creating 2262 kw in CHP in Europe
11900t MBT
Hills Westbury
46% energy recovery
and RDF creating 1895 kw in CHP in Europe
2500t EFW
Suez Avonmouth
274 kw electricity local grid
Food
6000
Anaerobic digestion
Geneco Avonmouth
Biogas
Landfill
8900
Landfill gas recovery
Shortwood and Calne

7. Emerging near term actions: ‘first next steps’ Spend to save.
Right Vision, Right People and Right Support.
Large scale (post subsidy) solar programme – roofs, storage, peer-to-peer trading, local energy markets
Home-owner low carbon retrofit supply chain and market accelerator
Co-ordinated anti-fuel poverty ‘No one suffers a cold home’ programme
Shared energy management capacity across public sector
West of England energy efficiency fund for commercial buildings
Heat decarbonisation taskforce
Maximise Local Energy from Waste ( But Not chasing waste)
EV growth co-ordination group
Policies across regional and local plans to ensure that all new developments zero carbon & ‘smart enabled’ (plus shared crack team to support realisation)

8. Questions