2. What is a RIF?
• A Renewable Infrastructure Framework
provides:
– A technical baseline of the potential for renewable
and sustainable energy generation
– An estimate of the inward investment potential
for the area
– Practical steps to start to deliver this
infrastructure
– A delivery network to undertake these steps
3. Do you need a RIF?
• Because large scale infrastructure projects are
complex and involve diverse stakeholders
• Because to move forward together you need
to have a common place to start
• Because focusing on investment potential
unlocks capacity in the area
• Because creating a network means you have
someone to take the work forward
4. Step 1: Find your Network
• We suggest a co-productive approach:
– Start by researching the groups, individuals who
are already active around this agenda and bring
them together
5. Step 2: Understand your context
• Be honest about the challenges that you face:
– If the political context is difficult then say so
– If you face local challenge then acknowledge it
– Describe and communicate this context to all the
participants
– Understand the level of technical knowledge in
the conversation
– Share and describe the level of ambition and
targets
6. Step 3: Bring your network
together
• Build this framework with the people who will
use it
– Hold open meetings to shape the project
approach
– Make sure they test and examine the technical
approach for the baseline
7. Step 4: Create a technical
baseline
• The technical baseline has to:
– Describe what is possible technically
– Filter this with respect to local planning
behaviours
– Describe different ways to reach your targets
– Describe the potential for inward investment
8. Step 5: Discuss it. A lot
• If you want people to use your RIF they need
to be involved in creating it:
– This is not a consultation – hold open meetings
with a community led agenda
– Get agreement for the baseline
– Use these events to start to describe the
implementation plans
9. Step 6: Use digital
• A digitally led engagement strategy gives you
a complete and open record of your face to
face meetings and events
– Create a blog and talk about your progress and
what you have learned
– Create a record of your events so people can see
that you have listened
– Acknowledge the contribution of the network
10. Step 7: Bring it back together
• You should at this point have an accepted
technical baseline and suggestions for
implementation steps from the network
• You should then:
– Shape these into an action plan
– Start to communicate the process of political
agreement and the way to unlock resources
11. Step 8: Gather commitments
• As you enter the decision-making phase of the
project ask the network to commit to
implementation actions:
– Gather pledges and start to work in the
implementation
– Get public statements of the level of ambition
– Make it clear what the decision-making process is
12. Step 9: Make commitments
• Co-production is about all groups acting. As
you get pledges from the community you
need to start creating firm commitments from
political decision makers
• Ensure that you know how you will support
the network after the RIF is adopted
13. Step 10: Make it happen
• At the end of this process you have not only
the RIF but a network of people ready to use it
• Don’t think of the end of the project as the
end of the process – look beyond this to the
network you have created
• Make sure that you know what happens next
14. What do you need to get started?
• Senior political and non-political support
• Someone to champion the project
• The right project team
• An understanding of the level of ambition in
your area
15. Project team
• We suggest:
– Well known and respected Officers who can
operate at senior and tactical levels in the area
and across organisations
– Highly credible technical experts who can describe
the technical baseline and investment potential
– Creative and agile Community engagement and
communication support to help you shape the
project dynamically
16. Interested in finding out more?
• You can find out more on the Sustainability
East Website
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