8. West Midlands
population: 5.3 million
CO2 : 50 million
tonnes
Nigeria
population: 140 million
CO2 : 52 million tonnes
Sources: Energy4All, WDM, IEA
9.
10. quot;Regardless
of which route we
choose, the world's
current predicament
limits our maneuvering
room. We are
experiencing a
step-change in the growth
rate of energy demand
due to population growth
and economic
development, and Shell
estimates that after
2015 supplies of
easy-to-access oil
and gas will no
longer keep
up with
demand.quot;
Jeroen van der Veer, CEO Shell
28th January 2008
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15. Fuels used in E generation/Mtoe
Fuel 2003 2007
Coal 31.6 31.9
Oil 0.7 0.8
Gas 24.5 27.5
Nuclear 20.0 14.0
Hydro 0.2 0.4
Other renewables 0.4 0.6
Net imports 0.2 0.4
16. EU 20/20/20 by 2020
• UK Target = 15% of all energy from renewables by
2020 (cf 1.5% currently)
• Suggested that to meet this some 36% of electricity
will come from wind by 2020 (onshore & offshore)
• ~36% of Electricity = 123,120,000,000 kWh/annum
• Or 46,849 MW of wind needed by 2020 (BWEA say
33,000 MW)
• Equal to 15,000 x 3MW turbines
• 3,750 MW/annum
• 1,250 x 3MW turbines/annum
• Or 5 per day (weekends off!) for the next 12 years
• 2007 saw UK deliver 450 MW (need a 9 fold increase
in rate of deployment compared with last year)
17. DEMAND REDUCTION
The heart of the matter
• In 2003 final consumption of E was 336,218GWh
• In 2007 final consumption of E was 341,945GWh
• Up 1.7% or 5,727GWh
• All wind projects (on and offshore) in 2007
generated some 5,274GWh of E
• This was just 92% of the extra electricity we
used over 48 months ending 2007
• Simplistically we are collectively squandering the
efforts to DECARBONISE because we are failing
to reduce DEMAND
18. We’re seeking to deliver
on the 3Ds:
Demand Reduction
Decarbonisation
Decentralisation
19. To Address: Climate Change + Energy Security
= The Same Actions
+ Finite Fossil Fuel
20. To help: deliver on the UK’s
commitment to the climate change
challenge, whilst helping to ensure that
there is a sustainable, secure and
affordable supply of
energy for everyone.
We aim to contribute to these goals in
ways that strengthen the economic
capability, social capital and reputation
of the areas in which we work.
21. With some principles:
1. We don’t seek to duplicate existing
effective activity
2. Seek to develop activity, product &
service which meet an unmet need
(vacuum test)
3. Need to inject some regional & sub-
regional vision
4. We like portfolio funding (£1 = £5)
5. Not keen on ‘dominant’ contracts
(honest broker test)
22.
23. Tonnes of carbon dioxide per capita
Industry &
Local Authority Domestic Transport
Commerce
Oswestry 2.9 2.6 3.3
South Shropshire 2.6 2.7 4.7
North Shropshire 3.8 2.6 3.3
Woking 2.6 2.5 1.6
Source: DEFRA/AEA Technology. Local & Regional estimates by end user,
summary 2005.
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42. What is 1% of GDP?
• UK GDP (08/09) = £1,463,000,000,000
• 1% = £14,630,000,000 (£14.6 billion)
• £243.83 per person
• British Taxpayers have just provided £600
billion of loans, guarantees and capital to
rescue the UK’s Banks
43. West Midlands
& Sustainable Energy
LEADERSHIP!
‘If the leader hath no vision the people
will perish’ Proverbs 29:18
57. What is it?
• £1 million grant scheme (50/50
capital and revenue)
• 2 year pilot programme : Apr ’08 –
Mar ’10
• partnership between SC and MEA
funded via RRZ and AWM
• an evolution of Low Carbon
Communities for Business
• URSUS report
58. Where?
Inside, or serving, the
Zone- feasibility and
capital grants
Staffordshire and
Shropshire- feasibility
alone
59. Initial contact with SME Registers with RE:think
Energy Efficiency alone - Energy Efficiency & Renewables
Exit ineligible or Renewables alone
Insufficient potential
Exit Energy Assessment Business Link review
Sufficient potential
Full application form SC credit reference check
Not awarded grant Appraisal presented to board awarded grant
Exit
71. Never before have our emerging environmental crises been laid out so
clearly before us. Rather than shouting from the fringes, respected
economists, scientists, and politicians are sounding the warnings in
high-profile journals and the halls of government – warnings that our
oceans are dying, that the ice shelves are melting, and that we are
setting ourselves up for the most massive and devastating market
failure humanity has ever seen.
So we recycle. We vote greener. We buy sleek new hybrid cars and fill
our houses with energy efficient light bulbs. And we put our money and
faith in the brave and ingenious technologies that will rescue us from
the whirlwind.
But it won’t be enough.
Because this is not, fundamentally a technological problem. Nor is it,
fundamentally, a political problem. This is a problem of appetites, and
of self deceit. The planet is breaking, and it is breaking under the
weight of our hunger for more.
To reform the world, we must first reform ourselves.
Tom Green, Ecological Economist
72. “Make no little plans. They
have no magic to stir
men's blood... Make big
plans; aim high in hope
and work.”
Daniel Hudson Burnham
1846-1912
“Search all the parks in all
your cities; you'll find no
statues of committees.”
David Ogilvy
1911-1999
73. ‘If future generations
are to remember us
more with gratitude
than contempt, we
must leave them
more than the
miracles of
technology. We must
leave them a glimpse
of the world as it was
in the beginning, not
just after we got
through with it.’
Lyndon B. Johnson
