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The Carbon Reduction Commitment.
The Who, What, Where, When,
Why and How?
Fran Bullock
Carbon Reduction Officer
Torbay Council
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Context
• Who?
• What?
• Where?
“Schools account for 2% of UK emissions”
DCSF
• When?
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Why? (1) Climate Change
Global Temperature 1850 - 2008
Natural & man
made forcing
Consequence of
anthropogenic CO2
Natural forcing
ONLY
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Why? (1) Climate Change
0.8°C
0°C
1°C
2°C
= threshold for ‘dangerous’ climate change
2°C
3°C
4°C
5°C
6 °C
Failing crop yields in many developing regions
Severe impact
in Shale
Food
Entire regions experience
major decline in crop yields
Up to 60% increase in people
at risk from hunger
Yields in many developed regions decline
Rising crop yields in high latitudes
Small mountain glaciers
disappear worldwide – threat
to water supplies
Water
Coral reefs extensively
and irreversibly damaged
More than a billion people
suffer water shortages many in Africa
Sea
Level Rise
Glaciers
+30% increase in runoff in
Med and southern Africa
Onset of collapse of
Amazon Rainforest
Coral Reefs
Sea level rise threatens
major world cities
including London
Amazon
Large fraction of ecosystems unable to maintain current form
Ecosystems
Extreme
Weather
Rapid &
Irreversible
Climate Change
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Up to 50% of species face extinction
Rise in intensity of storms, droughts, floods and heat waves
Increase in hurricane intensity
Hurricanes
Increase in methane release, weakening of the THC
Irreversible melting
of Greenland Ice sheet
Gulf Stream
Risk of abrupt large scale shifts in climate system
Greenland
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Where are we going?
4°C
+2°C
2°C
…and some ‘dangerous’ climate change
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Why? (2) Saving Money
Tonne
CO2
1,860 kWh
£250
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Why? (3) Carbon Trading
• Carbon Reduction Commitment.
• Starts Apr 2010.
• The market place = large business and public
sector organisations.
• Fixed point emissions ONLY – not transport.
• Torbay Council is a mandatory participant.
“All state-funded schools will be included under
the umbrella of their local authority”
Hilary Benn
16th July 2008
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What is Carbon Trading?
Principal Aim
Use market forces (i.e. price) to reduce emissions
at the lowest cost.
1.
Placing a ‘cap’ (a limit) on the CO2 emissions
Aim aof
CRC market place.
allowed from
predefined
2.
Auction off the allowable emissions (as
Drive
out creating a price for carbon.
“allowances”)
thereby
cost-effective
3.
The carbon price then provides the threshold
energy
efficiencies
between implementing projects and buying allowances.
Carbon Price
Cap
Auction
Price
Threshold
£12 tCO2
Cost
effective
energy
efficiency
Abatement costs LESS
Abatement costs MORE
Implement Projects
Buy Allowances
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Higher
cost
renewable
technology
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Torbay’s Qualifying Carbon Footprint
Torbay's CO2 emissions
17,900 tCO2
Corporate
property
34%
Torbay schools
48%
Street lighting
18%
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“Reasonable Assistance” Duty on Schools
This means that schools have a statutory duty to
provide reasonable assistance and gather all data
which relates to their energy use and provide this
each year to their Local Authority.
Taken from a leaflet produce by the London Energy Project.
• Monthly meter reading
• To avoid 10% uplift for using estimated readings.
• Automatic meter reading (AMR)
• Install AMR where it is cost-effective.
• CRC Evidence Pack
• Collect all the necessary information on energy
consumption for audit purposes.
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“How? A Carbon Journey
Carbon Neutral
Offset emissions
Carbon Managed
Renewables
Carbon Controlled
Energy
efficiency
Reduce demand
(energy conservation)
Carbon Known
Carbon Aware
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Carbon
Unknown
Measure consumption/emissions
The Energy Hierarchy
Raise awareness/communicate
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Introductory Phase - Cost
• The Authority is the legal entity with financial
responsibility for participating in the CRC.
• Schools will be part of the LA portfolio.
• It is required to
• calculate emissions,
• purchase allowances and
• receive recycling payments.
@ £12 per tCO2
£214,800
(schools’ element approx £100k)
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The MAC Curve
RE
£50/tCO2
EC
EE
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The risks
In year one the risk will be +/- 10% depending on
our position in the league table.
In year two the risk will be +/- 20%, year 3, 30%
and so on…
The risk will increase over time, and
when the cost of Carbon increases.
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Your role in all of this…
1. Request an Annual Statement from Electricity
Suppliers for the calendar year 2008 – NOW.
2. Start recording energy use and collating an
evidence pack – FROM April 2010.
3. Request Annual Statements from all energy
suppliers covering 1 April 2010 to 31 March 2011 –
BEFORE 28 February 2011
4. Provide evidence pack to your Local Authority –
BEFORE 30 June 2011
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 each year
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6. Start saving energy – NOW.
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How you can be helped…
Automatic meter reading – this will enable the Council’s
energy team to carry out much of the work required by
the CRC.
It will eliminate estimates, identify areas of high
consumption, identify any sudden changes in consumption,
reducing waste and be used as an educational tool.
Use Salix funding to invest in energy saving technologies
– to save energy and reduce carbon emissions.
Assign a member of staff to help drive things
forward.
Sign up to Eco schools for ideas and inspiration.
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AMR - the costs.
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AMR electricity £135 per year.
AMR gas £167 per year.
No initial costs. Free for the first year.
Carbon Trust say AMR can identify 12%
carbon savings and implement an average of
5% carbon savings.
• This will vary from school to school as to
whether the savings will out-way the costs.
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AMR / Smart metering.
• Typical AMR data…
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Contacts
• From your Local Authority
• Energy Management Team
• Andrew Pedrick 01803 208966
• Fran Bullock 01803 208988
• http://www.torbay.gov.uk/energy-saving-fund.doc
• www.torbay.gov.uk/sustainableschools
• The Carbon Trust - www.carbontrust.co.uk
• ECO-schools – www.eco-schools.org.uk
• Sustainable Schools –
www.sustainablelearning.info
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Questions
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