Building the Infrastructure for Sustainable Energy Transition – Cornwall Energy Island Low Carbon Business Breakfast Wednesday 26th July 2017, Buro Happold, Bath

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CORN WA LL E N E RG Y IS L A N D
26/07/17

TH E CO RNWALL ENERG Y ISL AND
 Research project
 Self-funded in partnership with Eden Project
 Imagined Cornwall as an energy island
 First event at the Eden Project, 16-17th March 2015, 130 participants
 Follow-up event held 3rd July 2017, 80 participants

Context

1
Fragile export dependent economy
High energy importation
Relatively high energy poverty
Rich in renewable energy sources
SMALL ISLAND STATES

 The most renewable resource rich county
 The second poorest county in economic terms
 Could an ‘energy island’ approach improve the local economy?
CO RNWALL

WHEN WE TALK ENERGY STRATEGY…
WE ARE TALKING ABO U T F O U R DISTINC T ARE AS
Power Heat Transport Industry

U K C LIMATE C HANGE AC T
F O RWARD P L ANNING
2010 2020 2030 2040 20502000
CO2
 The recession made carbon
reduction easier
 Next two UK government terms are
critical for defining better central UK
energy strategy
 The ‘hard yards’ in terms of carbon
reduction lie ahead and change
takes time to implement

 The UK can implement an affordable 35yr transition at a little over 1% of GDP
• Top down ‘clockwork’ strategy most efficient
• Bottom up ‘patchwork’ slightly more costly but still affordable
 Planned UK spend is probably sufficient
ENERGY TEC HNO LO GIES INSTITU TE
P REPARING TH E U K F O R TH E ENERG Y TRANSITIO N

ENERGY STRATEGY
P O WER G ENERATIO N
Finland France

TRANSITIO N PATHWAYS
Market Rules
Market ‘logic’
Thousand Flowers
Civil society ‘logic’
Central Co-ordination
Government ‘logic’

CO RNWALL P O WER DEMAND & GENERATIO N P RO FILES

CO RNWALL’ S STRO NG F O U NDATIO N

Charles Leadbeater, Author of The London Recipe:
How Systems and Empathy make the City
ENGINEERING WHERE SYSTEMS MEE T P EO P LE

THE O LYMP IC E XP ERIENC E

E N E R G Y I S L A N D –
C O N F E R E N C E @ E D E N

Why Cornwall?

IndependenceResources Economy
WH Y CO RNWALL?

CO RNWALL BU ILDINGS
 Highest proportion of pre-
1900 building stock in UK
– hard to retrofit
 10-20% of houses have no
central heating –
expensive to move to
another heat source
 50% of rural houses have
non-gas central heating
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Rural - UK Rural -
Cornwall
Urban - UK Urban -
Cornwall
No Central Heating
Electric (Including Storage
Heaters) Heating
Two or More Types of Central
Heating
Other Central Heating
Solid Fuel (For Example
Wood, Coal) Central Heating
Oil Central Heating
Gas Central Heating

CO RNWALL’ S ENERGY INFRASTRU C TU RE
 Isolated electricity network
 Significant constraints until 2023
 Summer demand imbalance
 Limited gas network outside of
urban areas
 Little expansion of gas network
planned

Newlyn Art Gallery
BU RO HAP P O LD AND CO RNWALL
Eden Project Heartlands
Hayle Harbour Carlyon Bay Strategic Heat Study

A Cornish energy system which makes the most of our natural resources and maximises our
economic benefit by minimising the import of energy from the rest of the UK and selling
renewable energy externally.
We aim to achieve this vision by thinking of Cornwall as an ‘energy island’, connected to the
mainland but not dependent on it.
CO RNISH ENERGY ISL AND – IN A SENTENC E

How do you unite Cornwall’s energy
ecosystem behind a common purpose?
And move from:

C U RRENTLY: ALMO ST ALL THE VALU E DERIVED FRO M THE
ENERG Y SU P P LY C H AIN LE AVES CO RNWALL

IF THE ENERGY ECO NO MY WAS RECO NFIGU RED THIS CO U LD
BE C H ANG ED

The Process

P REPARATIO N
 Context and previous work
 Technical modelling – reality
checking
 Identifying and listening to
stakeholders

WHO WAS INVITED

P L ANNING THE WO RKSHO P
Keynotes Power Games Call to Action

ENTHU SE: KEYNOTES
This involves getting participants excited
about the challenge ahead through
introducing the context, issues and
opportunities through the eyes of
inspirational people with expertise,
power and influence.
Roger Nickells Catherine Mitchell Hugh Montgomery
Steven Ford Chris Pomfret Tim Smit

EDU C ATE: INFO BU RSTS
Through short speeches and
presentations participants are given
knowledge and key insights from
experts into social, political, technical,
environmental and economic
perspectives. This informs and
elevates the dialogue and decision-
making in the interactive elements of
the workshop.

ENERG ISE: ENERG Y G AME
We created an energy model for Cornwall from which it was possible to create a game which
allowed the stakeholders to explore how to balance supply and demand in Cornwall

ENERGISE: P U RP O SE O F THE ENERGY GAME
 To create a simplified, structured forum
for people to really engage with energy
issues
 To give people a sense of proportion
 To identify areas of consensus and
disagreement
 To give a sense of the trade-offs
between energy supply and demand
 To provide a technical grounding for
the discussions of social, economic,
political and environmental factors that
really matter

ENERGY GAME: THE AIM O F THE ENERGY
G AME
= to produce an energy plan for
Cornwall that adds up.
Demand and Supply: It’s got to balance!
Stage 1: What YOU want – individual
game.
Think about your house, your car, your
workplace, lifestyle.
Stage 2: Group scenario
Think about the area as a whole – what would
work, on average, for everyone?

ENERGISE: HO W THE RESU LTS LO O K

ENERGISE: DEMAND - DO MESTIC HE ATING
AND H OT WATER
 Housing energy efficiency is a big part of it
 Capital intensive
25% Basic fabric upgrade
75% Comprehensive fabric upgrade
74% Building mgmt
75% Heating systems upgrade
40% Heat pumps
54%
INDIVIDUAL CHOICES CONSENSUS

ENERGISE: SU P P LY RESU LTS - O F FSH O R E
WIND
 The back lash for onshore wind will put increasing pressure on government
to do offshore
 You won’t solve the technical issues in 8 years
0
5
10
15
20
25
kWh/person/day
MAX = 25
AVERAGE = 7.5

ENERGISE: SU MMARY

EMP O WER: C ALL TO AC TIO N
The results of the Energy Game are
discussed and participants asked to
consider the current strengths and
weaknesses of the region in moving
towards potential solutions. They are then
asked to define clear actions and owners,
and assess these for positive impact and
ease of implementation.

Outcomes

VISIO N

C ALL TO AC TIO N

FEEDBAC K FRO M PARTIC IPANT S
How useful was the workshop for you?
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
Very useful Fairly Useful Neutral Not so useful Not at all useful Not answered
Very useful
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Not answered

Looking back – 2 years
later

ENERG Y ISL AND 2 0 1 7
 Bringing the community back to together
 80 participants
 Looking back – what has been done to address the themes of the first event and updates from
projects, studies and initiatives
 Looking forward – what more needs to be done?
 Commitments – what are you going to do?

 Lots of things happened following the 1st event:
• Devolved powers to Cornwall and Isles of Scilly included a strong energy theme
• Cornwall Council established ambitious 2030 energy targets
• ERDF funding for a variety of energy projects
• Innovative pilot projects
• Innovative studies and tools
ENERGY ISL AND 2015 – A C ATALYST

 Support for deep geothermal
 Low carbon enterprise zones
 Energy efficiency programme linked to public health and regeneration
 Support for innovative investment models in energy infrastructure and smart grids
 Community energy pilot projects
DEVO LU TIO N DE AL – J U LY 2015

 Reduce fuel poverty to 5%
 100% of electricity demand met by renewables
 30% of energy spend retained in the Cornish economy
 50% locally owned generation
 20% reduction in fuel bills
 4,000 green jobs
CO RNWALL CO U NC IL’S ENERGY FU TU RE – 2030 O U TCO MES

Local Energy Markets - Centrica Smart Island – Hitachi and Isles
of Scilly
CETO Wave Hub – Carnegie
Clean Energy
United Downs Deep
Geothermal – GEL Ltd
ERDF F U NDED P ROJ EC TS

Sunshire Tariff Trial – WPD, Regen, WREN and
Tempus Energy
Renewable Cornwall Project –
Wales and West Utilities
Cornwall Strategic Heat
Opportunities Study – Cornwall
Council and BuroHappold
Cornwall Energy Storage
Masterplan – Cornwall
Council, Encraft and
Birmingham Energy
Institute
STU DIES AND P ILOT P ROJ EC TS

WHAT HAS BEEN HAP P ENING?
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
50
Coordinated
leadership
Funding and finance Infrastructure
planning
Just do it Policy and regulation
reform
Train, attract and
retain skilled workers
Vision
Numberifcomments/votes
What has happened

WHERE IS FU RTHER AC TIO N NEEDED?
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
50
Coordinated
leadership
planning
reform
Train, attract and
Vision
What has happened What is still needed

P RIO RITIES
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
50
Coordinated
leadership
planning
reform
Train, attract and
Vision
What has happened What is still needed Prioritisation votes

 Skills and people – build on strengths in energy and carbon higher education. Improve
career security.
 Funding – consistent, long term R&D and project development funding
 Policy – greater national policy consistency, broadening OFGEM’s remit to include
climate change
 Infrastructure planning – strategic approach to storage and demand side response and
increase data sharing, particularly from publically funded projects
 Vision – raising public awareness
P RIO RITIES FO R AC TIO N

What have we learnt?

 Structured event approach can be a powerful way of catalysing action in messy
ecosystem of different actors
 Technical underpinning is key to ensure people’s confidence in the outcomes:
• Built on a strong evidence base
• Simplified to the energy game
 Maintaining momentum is challenging. Regular events and communications are
probably needed
 Constraints can force innovation
 Limits to local ability to enact change – the rules of the game are set at national level
WHAT HAVE WE LE ARNT?

What next?

WHAT ’S NE X T FO R CO RNWALL?
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14
New connection
Learning
Physical project
Ongoing
Personal
Outreach/awareness/education
New study
New initiative/group
Number of commitments

 Energy in other parts of the UK
• Urban
• Semi-urban – e.g. West of England
• Bringing these together strategically
 Energy around the world, including real islands
 Other resources
WIDER AP P LIC ABILI T Y FO R THE AP P ROAC H

C AN WE DO IT IN THE WEST O F ENGL AND?

 What role should local government take in the South West in terms of an energy
transition?
 Is the patchwork the way forward? How can long term clockwork approach be
influenced?
 How should we be advising our clients in terms of future proofing?
DISC U SSIO N P O INTS

Read the White Paper and supporting documents:
http://www.burohappold.com/in-deep/energy-island/
View the presentations from the 2015 Cornwall Energy Island event
http://www.edenproject.com/node/251503
Read about the West of England Energy Game Workshop
http://www.bristolenergy.coop/uploads/8/0/3/6/8036407/woe_energy_games_final.pdf
Get in touch:
ben.smallwood@burohappold.com
FIND O U T MO RE

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