IGNITE your....FUTURE SOLENT Presenter - Jimmy Chestnutt, General Director of the Southampton & Fareham Chamber of Commerce & Industry will present about "Future Solent creating a Low Carbon Green Economy!" The Solent Local Enterprise Partnership (Solent LEP), together with the Partnership for Urban South Hampshire (PUSH) and the Hampshire Chamber of Commerce have agreed a strategy for development of a low carbon economy in the Solent area which will help stimulate sustainable economic growth, create jobs, and reduce our carbon footprint.

1. Jimmy Chestnutt
Chief Executive/Chairman Future Solent

3. Future Solent
A partnership between Push and the Hampshire
Chamber of Commerce
To deliver
The Solent LEP low carbon strategy

4. Priority 1
New Low Carbon & Green Technology
•capitalise on the world class research in
the sub-region in to green technologies
•turn these in to business opportunities,
growth and jobs as well and support strong
manufacturing

5. Priority 2
Resource efficiency in homes and
businesses
ensure our homes and businesses
minimise waste including waste of
energy

6. Priority 3
Generation of secure, renewable & low carbon
energy in the Solent
•develop large scale renewable energy such as tidal
and offshore wind
•encourage small scale generation on homes and
businesses and renewable and district energy
schemes

7. Programme
Includes
• Developing an energy strategy
• Delivering GREEN DEAL
• Promoting existing projects
• Developing new projects
• Coordinating skills training across the
programme

8. RGF
• Solent Environmental Technologies
Business Hub
• Hampshire Community Investment Bank

9. Low Carbon strategy
RGF

10. Environmental INet
• 'one-stop-shop‘ for environmental
technology businesses
• Providing a gateway to expertise, funding
and support services to help businesses
succeed in one of the UK's fastest growing
and most competitive sectors.

11. Low carbon strategy
RGF
One stop support
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12. LoToNo
• Develop low carbon SME clusters in Dorset
and Solent“
• Address the policy challenges required in
Dorset and Solent to create a favourable
business environment to
 foster entrepreneurship
 encourage the development of emerging low
carbon resource efficient industries
 create new business models.

13. Low carbon strategy
RGF
One stop support
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Clusters
System change

14. Low carbon strategy
RGF
One stop support
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HCC
Clusters
System change

15. Low carbon strategy
RGF
Hampshire
Business
Alliance
Clusters
System change
One stop support
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HCC

16. Future Solent
LoToNo
Environmental Inet

17. Staff
• RGF I Project manager fully funded for 2-5
years
• LoToNo 0.3 person. £20k for two years with
match funding
• Environmental Inet Don’t know yet.
Risk
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