Transcript Climate Change and Salford

Climate Change, the Salford
Response
Presentation to Scrutiny Committee
25th April 2013
Mike Hemingway
Climate Change Impacts on Salford and
the North West
•Summer temperature rises of up to 5.9 ºC.
•The hottest day temperatures in NW exceeding 40 ºC
(current highest is 38.5 ºC in Kent 2003)
•Summer rainfall could decrease by 21%.
•Increased probability of severe weather incidents.
•Winter rainfall could be 16% higher than now.
How this might affect us
• Areas of Salford are at high risk of flooding and
heat island effect.
• Increased storm damage and disruption to travel.
• Summer water shortages
• Public health problems around heat stress, skin
cancers and food poisoning
• The high levels of deprivation and vulnerable
households in these areas make them less
resilient to these impacts
Climate Change …
…. What will it mean for Salford
Annual/seasonal averages
• Warmer, drier summers (spring and autumn too)
• Milder, wetter winters
• Rising sea levels
Extremes
• More very hot days
• More intense downpours of rain
• Shorter return periods for high water levels at
coast
• Uncertain changes in storms - possible winter
increase
(Source: UKCIP)
Changing National Situation
• Dramatic energy price increases fuelled by insecurity of future energy
supply
– Increased fuel poverty in difficult economic times
• 34% reduction in UK carbon emissions by 2022
• 80% reduction required by 2050
• The government ambitions
– Increased energy from renewables / sustainable sources
– Decreasing demand for energy
• Green Deal is the Government’s flagship environmental policy
– Launch in 28th January 2013
• End to current subsidies for household energy efficiency measures in Dec
2012 (CESP and CERT)
– New subsidy (ECO) launched alongside Green Deal – Oct 2012
Salford’s Climate Change Strategy
Creating a city prepared for the future (2010)
Three Key Themes
Carbon Reduction
- Reducing our carbon footprint
Climate Adaptation
- Making places resilient and
people safe
Behavioural Change
- Understanding why and how
we can play our part.
Purpose of the Strategy
• Demonstrate a collective commitment to address Climate Change
on behalf of Salford communities.
• Provide broad framework for partners to identify roles.
• Demonstrate a range of activity already taking place.
• Identify action and partnerships to take the agenda forward.
• The strategy covers the council as an organisation, managing our
own estate, as a regulator and policy maker and as a community
leader, working with communities and partners
Connecting People to Opportunities
• Energy efficiency :
warm homes, healthy homes,
financial and carbon savings
• Walking / Cycling :
physical health, weight loss,
self esteem, carbon savings
• Local Food Growing :
mental, physical health,
rewarding, healthy diet,
carbon savings
Connecting People to Opportunities
• Business
Opportunities
• Jobs / Skills /
Training
• Reducing costs /
Competetiveness
GM Climate Change Strategy 2011-2020
This AGMA strategy focuses on
• Rapid transition to a low carbon economy.
• Reduce collective carbon emissions by 48%.
• We will be prepared for and actively adapting to a
rapidly changing climate.
• ‘Carbon literacy’ will have become embedded
The GM strategy is supplemented by a climate change
implementation plan for projects up to 2015.
Climate Change Implementation Plan
Themes and Sub-groups
Enable and Measure
Outcomes
City Deal - Low Carbon Elements
Key elements:
1) Develop a Low Carbon Hub
a) developing a joint Low Carbon Implementation Plan
b) Pathfinder (MOU) with DECC as part of 1 of 5 Pioneer UK Cities
2) 50/50 Joint Venture with Green Investment
Bank
a) Programme to develop a pipeline of investable project
b) Develop and deliver projects
3) Extend low carbon work across Government
a) Develop MOUs with BIS, DEFRA and other depts as relevant
Wider Greater Manchester Context
“Combining the knowledge of GM’s universities with the innovation of GM’s businesses,
under the governance of the GM Combined Authority”
• Deliver GM Low Carbon aspiration
of 48% carbon reduction by 2020
• Partnership with Universities and
Private Sector
• 7 `Delivery’ Sub Groups (2 crosscutting Skills and LCEGS Sector
Devel)
• Support from AGMA and GM
`Family’
• Developing `Pathfinder’ MoU’s with
Gvt Departments - DECC and Defra
in particular
Significant GM Projects
Delivering projects :
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£3m Green Deal `Go Early’ Projects
GM Solar Photovoltaic Project
£10m social housing retrofit programme
Get Me Toasty and Energy Advice Centre
Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure (OLEV)
Supporting £10m Electricity Northwest Grid capacity project,
NOMA, Scout Moor and Siemens Renewable Energy Centre
Developing Projects:
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Heat Networks and Heat Demonstrators
Project Development Capacity
Green Deal (DECC)
Climate Change Adaptation (Life +)
How are we engaging in Salford
• Salford is working with other AGMA authorities
to deliver the Green Deal in a way which
maximise outcomes for Salford residents
• Street lighting -24000 new energy efficient LED
street lights are being fitted across Salford.
• GM Fair Energy scheme. Latest figures show that
Salford had second highest participation rates as
a proportion of households, in both auctions to
date.
Hydro-electric power on the Irwell
• Salford is working with
partners to develop
Hydro Electric Power
projects on the River
Irwell weirs. These
schemes have the
potential to produce
enough electricity to
power over 300 homes
and will incorporate fish
passes to allow fish to
travel upstream.
Retrofitting housing in Salford
Toasty, Eco and the Green Deal
Toasty and Affordable Warmth
• Since between 2004/5 to 31 March 2013 19,837
energy efficiency measures installed in the
private sector
• £14.7 million of energy company & warm front
grant brought into the city
• Get Me Toasty scheme has installed 3,002
measures to-date in Salford.
This activity has generated annual CO2 savings of
1,982,020kgs
Heating bill savings are: annual = £373,300
What is the Green Deal
• Market driven approach with parameters set by
Government.
• The customer receives a package of energy efficiency
measures at no up-front cost from a ‘Green Deal provider’.
• Agreement to package of measures that pays for itself over
time – ‘Golden Rule’.
• Finance attached to the electricity meter – paid back over
upto 25 years
• Accredited advice, products and installation.
• Support for poorer households and certain installations.
The Golden Rule
The Green Deal and ECO
Local Authority leadership
• Focus and catalyse a growth market in GM
• Retain the benefits locally
• Encourage take-up
• Drive a neighbourhood / spatial approach
• Compliment the early, private sector market
• Low Carbon Leadership – ‘walk the talk’
GM Green Deal
• 15, 000 homes retrofitted over 3 years (minimum)
• 2,100 fuel poor households supported, saving the NHS alone £3m
• £100m spend in supply chain in improving GM housing stock
• Minimum of £16m of ECO attracted into GM
• 1000 jobs supported in the wider supply chain
• £36m of GVA generated
• Upto 25% more households savings secured through behaviour change
activity
• Opportunity to drive an increase in skills in GM, and create / support
apprenticeship opportunities
Social Housing
• PFI – insulation and renewables
Refurbishment of 1270 properties in Pendleton.
High and medium rise properties will benefit
from rainscreen cladding insulation and exhaust
air heat pump units to reduce emissions. Low rise
properties will be over clad with insulated render
and fitted with energy efficient boilers to increase
thermal efficiency. Overall across the PFI scheme
it is anticipated that there will 38% renewable
energy achieved.
Salix Homes
• The Salix Green project combines physical improvements to make
housing in Central Salford more environmentally sustainable with
advice and support for customers to encourage changes in how
energy is used in their homes.
• As a trailblazer for the Government's flagship Green Deal initiative,
Salix Homes have developed a range of innovative measures to
improve the energy efficiency of their homes, reducing their carbon
footprint and providing significant savings for residents fuel bills.
• Salix and City West have both installed “Eco-pods” on their tower
blocks. These cascade boiler systems supplemented by solar power
cut carbon and resident fuel bills.
• Salix has trained up front line staff to provide basic energy advice to
tenants.
Salford’s Carbon Management plan
A Green council
• Salford City Council has been awarded the Carbon Gold Saver Gold
standard in two successive years. The council is now the first organisation
in the country to have retained the maximum five star rating.
• Since 2007 the council has saved over £800000 and over 4000 tonnes of
Co2 by cutting energy use in council buildings by 16.4%.
• This has been achieved by measures such as passive air cooling of
computer servers at the civic centre; Voltage optimisation; installation of
LED lighting across corporate properties.
• New schemes such as cavity wall and loft insulation, heating controls and
lighting upgrades are already underway to save even more energy at
council offices, primary schools and leisure centres. It is expected these
new measures will save more than 150 tonnes of CO2 this year.
Communities Living Sustainably
• A recent success for Salford has been the Irwell
Communities Living sustainably bid.
• The Irwell Valley Sustainable Communities Project
recently won nearly £1 million from the Big Lottery.
• The project will support an area susceptible to flooding
from the River Irwell, will train up community green
champions, identify local projects to develop and to
encourage the creation of jobs in the Green economy
• Locally based company WSP is developing a tool to
help households follow a sustainable low carbon
lifestyle.
Chat Moss - Carbon Sink
• Chat Moss Acts as a
carbon store or Carbon
sink - huge amounts of
locked up carbon
• Rewetting of worked out
peat areas will prevent
further loss and begin
carbon uptake.