Richard DaviesDirector

<It’s the delivery stupid!> <A shared journey to a low carbon future?>

Presentation to the

Beyond the rhetoric……It’s

the delivery

stupid!the Why? What? Who? Where? & How? of

Marches Energy Agency

Good Afternoon

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West Midlandspopulation: 5.3 million

CO2 : 50 million

tonnes

West Midlandspopulation: 5.3 million

CO2 : 50 million

tonnes

Sources: Energy4All, WDM, IEA

Nigeriapopulation: 140 millionCO2 : 52 million tonnes

Jeroen van der Veer, CEO Shell

28th January 2008

"Regardless

of which route we

choose, the world's

current predicament

limits our maneuvering

room. We are

experiencing a

step-change in the growth

rate of energy demand

due to population growth

and economic

development, and Shell

estimates that after

2015 supplies of

easy-to-access oil

and gas will no

longer keep

up with

demand."

Fuels used in E generation/Mtoe

0.40.2Net imports

0.60.4Other renewables

0.40.2Hydro

14.020.0Nuclear

27.524.5Gas

0.80.7Oil

31.931.6Coal

20072003Fuel

EU 20/20/20 by 2020

• UK Target = 15% of all energy from renewables by 2020 (cf 1.5% currently)

• Suggested that to meet this some 36% of electricity will come from wind by 2020 (onshore & offshore)

• ~36% of Electricity = 123,120,000,000 kWh/annum

• Or 46,849 MW of wind needed by 2020 (BWEA say 33,000 MW)

• Equal to 15,000 x 3MW turbines

• 3,750 MW/annum

• 1,250 x 3MW turbines/annum

• Or 5 per day (weekends off!) for the next 12 years

• 2007 saw UK deliver 450 MW (need a 9 fold increase in rate of deployment compared with last year)

The heart of the matter DEMAND REDUCTION

• In 2003 final consumption of E was 336,218GWh

• In 2007 final consumption of E was 341,945GWh

• Up 1.7% or 5,727GWh

• All wind projects (on and offshore) in 2007

generated some 5,274GWh of E

• This was just 92% of the extra electricity we used over 48 months ending 2007

• Simplistically we are collectively squandering the efforts to DECARBONISE because we are failing

to reduce DEMAND

We’re seeking to deliver

on the 3Ds:

Demand Reduction

Decarbonisation

Decentralisation

To Address: Climate Change + Energy Security

+ Finite Fossil Fuel = The Same Actions

To help: deliver on the UK’s

commitment to the climate change challenge, whilst helping to ensure that

there is a sustainable, secure and affordable supply of energy for everyone.

We aim to contribute to these goals in ways that strengthen the economic

capability, social capital and reputation of the areas in which we work.

With some principles:1. We don’t seek to duplicate existing

effective activity

2. Seek to develop activity, product &

service which meet an unmet need

(vacuum test)

3. Need to inject some regional & sub-

regional vision

4. We like portfolio funding (£1 = £5)

5. Not keen on ‘dominant’ contracts

(honest broker test)

1.62.52.6Woking

3.32.63.8North Shropshire

4.72.72.6South Shropshire

3.32.62.9Oswestry

TransportDomesticIndustry & Commerce

Local Authority

Source: DEFRA/AEA Technology. Local & Regional estimates by end user,

summary 2005.

Tonnes of carbon dioxide per capita

What is 1% of GDP?

• UK GDP (08/09) = £1,463,000,000,000

• 1% = £14,630,000,000 (£14.6 billion)

• £243.83 per person

• British Taxpayers have just provided £600

billion of loans, guarantees and capital to

rescue the UK’s Banks

West Midlands

& Sustainable Energy

LEADERSHIP!

‘If the leader hath no vision the people will perish’ Proverbs 29:18

Case Studies

MPs to taste award-winning beer

A Shropshire brewery is to have one of its beers put on sale at the House of Commons.

Hobson’s Mild will be the guest beer in the Strangers Bar in the run up to Christmas after a request by MP for Ludlow, Philip Dunne.

The beer is brewed in his constituency in Cleobury Mortimer, near Ludlow, and was voted the best in Britain at the Great British Beer Festival in August.

The 3.2% drink was described by judges as having "plenty of hop character".

It was selected ahead of more than 50 beers, some made by major brewers, in eight different categories.

"It is good to see a decade of hard work bearing fruit so well in my constituency," Mr Dunne said.

The Hobson's Brewery was established in 1993. Story from BBC NEWS:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/england/shropshire/7046428.stm

© BBC MMVIII

+

What is it?• £1 million grant scheme (50/50

capital and revenue)

• 2 year pilot programme : Apr ’08 –Mar ’10

• partnership between SC and MEA funded via RRZ and AWM

• an evolution of Low Carbon Communities for Business

• URSUS report

Where?Inside, or serving, the

Zone- feasibility and capital grants

Staffordshire and

Shropshire- feasibility alone

Initial contact with SME Registers with RE:think

Energy Efficiency alone -

ineligible

Business Link review

Energy Efficiency & Renewables

or Renewables alone

Energy Assessment

Full application form

Appraisal presented to boardNot awarded grant awarded grant

Exit

Insufficient potential

Sufficient potential

SC credit reference check

Exit

Exit

Low Carbon Community Overview

Never before have our emerging environmental crises been laid out so clearly before us. Rather than shouting from the fringes, respected

economists, scientists, and politicians are sounding the warnings in high-profile journals and the halls of government – warnings that our

oceans are dying, that the ice shelves are melting, and that we are setting ourselves up for the most massive and devastating market

failure humanity has ever seen.

So we recycle. We vote greener. We buy sleek new hybrid cars and fill our houses with energy efficient light bulbs. And we put our money and faith in the brave and ingenious technologies that will rescue us from

the whirlwind.

But it won’t be enough.

Because this is not, fundamentally a technological problem. Nor is it, fundamentally, a political problem. This is a problem of appetites, and

of self deceit. The planet is breaking, and it is breaking under the weight of our hunger for more.

To reform the world, we must first reform ourselves.

Tom Green, Ecological Economist

“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood... Make big plans; aim high in hope and work.”Daniel Hudson Burnham 1846-1912

“Search all the parks in all your cities; you'll find no statues of committees.”David Ogilvy 1911-1999

‘If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.’

Lyndon B. Johnson

Don’t just stand there, do something!

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