The interim Devon Carbon Plan outlines Devon's path to becoming net-zero carbon by 2050 through reducing emissions from energy use. It focuses on increasing renewable energy and storage, transitioning to renewable sources like wind and solar, adding flexibility and storage to the energy grid, and capturing remaining carbon emissions. The plan estimates costs and opportunities, and emphasizes co-benefits like new jobs, healthier living, and community resilience. Stakeholder input is sought through consultation questions to help finalize the plan.

1. Interim Devon Carbon Plan
How the Plan has been produced and the opportunities for
the Energy Supply in Devon

2. 1. Welcome
Your Host – Kerry Hayes
Member of the Net-Zero Task
Force; Project Manager, Regen
Speakers:
Kate Royston
Director and Energy Advisor, Tamar Energy
Community
Sophie Phillips
Chair, South Dartmoor Community Energy
Ian Bailey
Professor of Environmental Politics,
University of Plymouth
Emily Reed
Project Manager, Devon Climate
Emergency
Hannah Oliver
Communications Lead, Devon Climate
Emergency

3. Agenda
1. Welcome
2. Background to the Devon Climate Emergency
3. Introduction to the Interim Devon Carbon Plan
4. What needs to happen?
5. Keynote discussion
6. Question and Answer Session
7. Next Steps

4. 2. The Devon Climate Emergency
Objectives:
• Reduce carbon
emissions to net-zero by
2050 at the latest
• Improve the resilience of
Devon’s environment
• Prepare communities for
a warmer world
Partnership:
Creating a resilient net-zero carbon Devon – where people and nature thrive

5. 2. Devon Climate Emergency
Project Structure:
Devon Climate Declaration

6. 3. The Interim Devon
Carbon Plan
A plan for everyone one in
Devon
Focuses on the strategic issues
and it nests with plans at
other levels
Engagement

7. 3. The Interim Devon Carbon Plan
Date for Net-Zero
• The Plan describes what needs
to be done to reach net-zero
• Provides a trajectory to meet
net-zero by 2050
• Indicates the costs,
opportunities and co-benefits of
2050
Your Opinion
• Discusses the practical
challenges of achieving net-zero
ahead of the national timetable
e.g. 2030 and 2040
• Specific consultation question

8. 3. The Interim Devon Carbon Plan
Funding:
• The Plan makes clear that net-zero
cannot be achieved within existing
resources and policy.
• The current funding status of each
action is described. Most need new
resources.
• Significant opportunities for
individuals to redirect purchasing
power e.g. shifts food purchasing
patterns.
Geography:
• Devon’s rural nature is a challenge
and an opportunity.
• Some net-zero actions and
behaviours will be easier in town
and cities.
• Where actions apply to a specific
type of area, this is described.

9. 3. The Interim Devon Carbon Plan
Co-Benefits of Net-Zero:
Create a fairer, healthier, more resilient and more prosperous society
• Health and Wellbeing
• Healthier diets, warmer homes and more active lifestyles.
• Prosperity
• New jobs and skills and retaining spending locally
• Environment
• Enhance and regenerate nature, reduce flood risk, improve
water and air quality

10. 4. What needs to happen?
ENERGY
Increasing renewables, introducing flexibility and capturing carbon
In 2018, 62% of Devon’s greenhouse gas emissions related to energy use
in the form of electricity and fossil fuel in buildings, manufacturing and
construction activity, and transport.

11. 4. What needs to happen?
1. Use less energy. We need to reduce demand and use what we
really need efficiently
2. Transition to renewables. e.g. wind, solar, biofuel
3. Flexibility and storage. We need to be able to store electricity and
use it more flexibly.
4. Carbon Capture and storage. Where small amounts of fossil fuels
continue to be used, the carbon emitted needs to be captured and
permanently stored to prevent it from reaching the atmosphere.

12. Key outcomes:
• Devon’s installed renewable energy and storage capacity increases substantially
bringing with it jobs and skills opportunities
• Innovation opportunities have been seized to test offshore technologies, such as
floating offshore wind, and hydrogen infrastructure
• Communities become more engaged in local energy issues and energy
investment
• New development is expanding Devon’s expertise in the use of district heating
systems
4. What needs to happen?

13. Key co-benefits and opportunities of the transition to a net-zero
energy system for Devon:
Financial returns on the investment in new renewables
• If locally spent, financial returns are a benefit to the local economy.
• Investment could come from Devon’s households, public sector bodies,
businesses, banks and pension funds.
• Profits from renewable energy schemes owned by Devon Climate Emergency
partners and communities can be invested in other local carbon reducing
activity e.g. domestic retrofit.
• Cohesive communities owning key infrastructure become more self-sufficient,
and with greater resilience
4. What needs to happen?

14. Key co-benefits:
Jobs and Skills
• The transition of our energy system away from fossil will support up to
192,000 jobs across Devon, Cornwall, Dorset and Somerset.
• Increased demand for electricity, and new technology use, provides
opportunities for reskilling into electrical trades.
• The retention of spending on energy within the Devon boundaries, avoiding
over £2 billion pounds a year leaving the local economy
4. What needs to happen?

15. Key co-benefits:
Health and Wellbeing
• Reduced air pollution
• Reduced levels of fuel poverty
• Public health benefits, driven by eliminating illnesses related to cold, damp
homes and air pollution
Less wasted energy
• Increased deployment of smart meters and time of use tariffs
could lead to less wasted energy and lower bills for consumers
4. What needs to happen?

16. Your Opinion
Poll

17. 5. Keynote discussion

18. 6. Questions and Answers

19. 7. Next Steps
• Complete the consultation online
• Share the consultation - tell a friend, family or colleague
• Attend or listen again to some of the other thematic webinars
View the plan: devonclimateemergency.org.uk/interimcarbonplan

20. devonclimateemergency.org.uk/interim-devon-carbon-plan-webinar-series