Transcript Energy Efficiency and Grants

Lewes Renewables
Matthew Bird
Sustainability and Energy Officer
Lewes District Council
“Climate Change is not an
environmental issue. It is the issue!”
Tony Turner, Carbon Sense.
The Context
 Kyoto Protocol
 Energy White Paper
 Home Energy Conservation Act
 Regional Targets
 Nottingham Declaration
 LDC Energy Policy
 Climate Change Strategy
 Community Leadership
Impacts of Global Warming
More adverse than beneficial
impacts on
biological and
socioeconomic systems
are projected.
Past and Future Climate Impacts
in the South- East
10 Warmest years have
occurred in the last 14
Floods of 2000
2003 Air pollution
highs
Winter rainfall will be 30-35%
higher
Summer rainfall will be 50-65%
lower
Higher insurance costs.
Higher Flooding risks and storm
surges.
Why a Renewable Grants
Scheme?
Climate Change
Hard to Treat Homes
Primer for Renewable Technologies
Security of supply
Heat and Sun
Scheme Design
£25,000 per year.
To cover a range of renewables
excluding PV.
Flexibility of design.
Quality Installers.
Easy to use.
Integrated with Insulation schemes.
Keep Warm
in Winter
Lewes Renewables
Grants are in addition to those already available
from Clear Skies.
Technology
Grant available
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Small Wind Turbines
Solar Water Heating Systems
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Ground Source Heat Pumps (GSHP’s)£800 each
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Biomass fired boilers
£400 each
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Pellet stoves or room-heaters
£300 each
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£200 per kW
£400 each
Wood burning stoves
(not available for mixed fuel appliances)
£100 each / £200 for Clean Air Act approved appliances
Promotion
Advertising - District Link, press,
radio etc.
Roadshows - Farmer’s Markets,
outdoor events, bolting onto anything
that is going on.
Climate change issues.
Installer self generation.
Imagination!
The Future - problems and possibilities
?? Wobbly, resources, planners!
Match-funding - trying to engage
utilities.
Working with developers.
Rural, solid wall insulation.
New technologies, e.g. Windsave.
Clear government direction - future
of Clear-Skies?
Fossil fuel prices.
Nuclear?