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Community Energy Workshop 14 July 2015
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- 1. EmPower Communities Community Energy Workshop 14 July 2015 CPRE National Office
- 2. EmPower Communities CPRE and community energy Nick Clack, Senior Energy Campaigner, CPRE
- 3. EmPower Communities CPRE and community energy (1) CPRE is a longstanding member of the Community Energy Coalition CPRE sees community energy as a positive way forward; keen it embraces some important principles: • Led by local community with broad buy-in • Local community gets direct benefits • Focus on energy reduction as well as supply • Sensitive to area where project is: landscape, wildlife etc Further political support needed for community energy CPRE strongly believes in community energy, but needs more communities to get involved and more support from Government (may be linked!)
- 4. EmPower Communities CPRE and community energy (2) CPRE’s work in support of community energy: • Overarching campaigning work e.g. promoting energy demand reduction • Lobbying/ influencing directly on key community energy issues • Support for communities
Editor's Notes
- CEC: grouping of diverse organisations, including CEE, Pure Leapfrog & 10:10 plus many others including WI, Church of England, NFU, FoE and NUS CEC aims to support a community energy revolution; the country’s first Community Energy Strategy published Jan 2014, but a long way to go (will say a bit more on this in a bit).... CPRE sees a number of key principles as being vital to way community energy is taken forward; some of these are widely advocated by others; perhaps a couple are a bit more unique to CPRE. Afsheen and others will go into some of these in a bit more detail, but I wanted to briefly touch on two..... Large infrastructure in the countryside key concern for CPRE and its supporters, incl energy infrastructure, but low carbon generation taken forward by communities tends to be smaller scale than commercial renewables so lower local environmental impacts, and particularly if communities actively embrace the principle of sensitive development into their projects No doubt a lot of progress has been made on community energy in this country (Community Energy Strategy, several hundred projects and growing), but equally no doubt there are still issues holding back greater ambition. Other speakers will say more on remaining challenges..... But just wanted to make the point that strong political support can make a difference – e.g. Ed Davey and Lib Dems in Coalition Govt; a little concerning none of the new energy & CC ministers have specific responsibility for CE
- CEC: grouping of diverse organisations, including CEE, Pure Leapfrog & 10:10 plus many others including WI, Church of England, NFU, FoE and NUS CEC aims to support a community energy revolution; the country’s first Community Energy Strategy published Jan 2014, but a long way to go (will say a bit more on this in a bit).... CPRE sees a number of key principles as being vital to way community energy is taken forward; some of these are widely advocated by others; perhaps a couple are a bit more unique to CPRE. Afsheen and others will go into some of these in a bit more detail, but I wanted to briefly touch on two..... Large infrastructure in the countryside key concern for CPRE and its supporters, incl energy infrastructure, but low carbon generation taken forward by communities tends to be smaller scale than commercial renewables so lower local environmental impacts, and particularly if communities actively embrace the principle of sensitive development into their projects No doubt a lot of progress has been made on community energy in this country (Community Energy Strategy, several hundred projects and growing), but equally no doubt there are still issues holding back greater ambition. Other speakers will say more on remaining challenges..... But just wanted to make the point that strong political support can make a difference – e.g. Ed Davey and Lib Dems in Coalition Govt; a little concerning none of the new energy & CC ministers have specific responsibility for CE
- CPRE’s work and involvement in community energy stretches back a number of years, but recently our work in support of community energy has included: Overarching campaining on key issues relevant to community energy and more generally such as promoting energy demand reduction Working directly to support CE: Pressing for fair tax relief for community energy projects Pushing for technologies currently supported thro FITs to have sufficient, stable financial support for community energy projects This workshop and other support for communities Will say a bit more on next steps for CPRE’s community energy work in the wrap-up slot at end of workshop