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Birmingham City Council
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Birmingham Briefing
Councillor Paul Tilsley
Deputy Leader
Birmingham City Council
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Brief Description of Birmingham
Birmingham is the largest UK City outside of London
A city of 1 million people
Almost 30% of its population comes from 150
nationalities
Birmingham is the capital of the West Midlands region,
with over 20% of regional GDP
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Brief Description of Birmingham
Business and Professional Services, Technology
(manufacturing and digital) and Exhibition and
Conference Services are the main productive sectors
Birmingham lies at the heart of the UK rail network with
36 million passengers a year.
Over 26 million visitors to the NEC and Convention
Centre
Over 160,000 students in our Universities
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Initiatives Around
Sustainability
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Initiatives Around Sustainability
Introduction of new Combined Heat and Power
networks in the City – City Centre schemes saving up
to 15,000 tonnes CO2 by
Host to UK National Energy Technology Institute and
European BioEnergy Research Institute
Birmingham “Sustainable Procurement Compact”
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Initiatives Around Sustainability
Energy from Waste plant producing 25Mw of electricity
and saving 75,000 tonnes CO2
New Wholesale Markets to incorporate bioenergy
capture
New City Centre Master Plan – “The Big City Plan” puts
sustainability at the heart of new development
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Birmingham CUD
Focus
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Birmingham CUD Focus
“Low Carbon Living in the Smart
Home”
“Achieving this will require major change in
behaviours amongst domestic users of energy.
This will require information on domestic
energy consumption and management to be
made significantly more transparent to the
consumer. And will also require more
intelligent information about transport choices
to be instantly available”
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Low Carbon Living in the Smart Home
The Prototype Home for the CUD project – Birmingham Home
Big City Plan supported
Birmingham Science City supported
Digital Birmingham supported
Prototypes for development
(i) domestic energy interactive communication device
(ii) local transport choices for intelligent homeworking
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