Community Renewable Energy Presentation

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Community Renewable Energy Presentation
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Introduction to the presentation
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• WHAT IS IT? to deliver a presentation on how to
  develop a renewable energy scheme, along with
  other useful tools.
• WHO IS IT FOR? community groups, local
  authorities and other people interested in
  developing a community scale renewable energy
  project.
• WHY DO WE NEED IT? to create better informed
  communities who understand the different types of
  renewable energy technologies, their impacts and
  the common misconceptions around them. With this
  we are hoping to encourage more community groups
  to bring forward renewable energy schemes.

• WHO PAID FOR IT? 1m North West Climate Change
  Skills Fund funded by the UK Government to
  support planning for carbon reduction and climate
  change in the North West, managed by the Climate
  Change Local Area Support Programme (CLASP).
  Visit www.clasp-nw.info for more information.

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How to use this Toolkit

• This toolkit covers eight renewable energy
  technologies at community scale and it has been
  designed so that users who are not familiar with
  the technologies can still deliver a 1 hour
  (approximately) presentation to community groups
  based on a series of materials.
• Follow the following steps in order to use the
  toolkit
• Remove slide 3 (current slide)
• Go through slides 1 to 8, using the information
  contained in the notes at the bottom of the
  slides.
• Remove slide 9 and insert the slides for the
  technology(ies) that your community is
  considering to install, for example 2. PV
  slides and 3.Hydro slides.
• Go through the contents on the technology slides
  inserted. To support this, you will need the
  information contained in the appropriate
  factsheets on the CLASP website, for example
  Factsheet 2 Solar Photovoltaics and Factsheet
  3 Hydro Power. The notes at the bottom of the
  slides will guide you through the content and
  appropriate pages on factsheets. Use the
  factsheets relevant to your subregion for more
  local information. The last slide contains case
  studies. Follow the links on the notes page to
  the documents which you can print or have on the
  screen.
• Once you have covered the different technologies,
  carry on with the main toolkit slides (you should
  now be on slides 10 to 14) and follow the
  instructions and links contained in the notes at
  the bottom.
• Slide 13 contains further sources of information
  which are available on the CLASP website
  Checklist and Literature Library. You can print
  those resources or show them on the screen.

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How is energy normally produced?
Electricity
Heat
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What are the alternatives renewable energy?
Fossil fuel
Renewable fuel

• Renewable energy is energy which comes from
  natural resources such as wind, sunlight, rain,
  tides or geothermal heat.
• These sources are considered renewable as they
  are naturally replenished
• They offer an alternative to fossil fuels such as
  oil, gas or coal.
• For a free demonstration on explaining renewable
  energy with moving images view
  http//www.jsheducation.com/4P16._Renewable_Energy
  _I.swf

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Whats in it for a community?

• Community benefits from renewable energy
  projects
• Protection against rising fossil fuel prices
• Make money for your community
• More local jobs
• Reduce your community carbon emissions
• Improve community well-being

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The wider context

• EU Energy Directive
• UK Renewable Energy Strategy
• North West potential

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What are the options?
ELECTRICITY Wind turbines Solar PV Hydro
power
HEAT Heat pumps Biomass District
Heating Solar thermal
COMBINED HEAT AND POWER
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How to access funding and finance?
Different sources of finance

• Shares
• Grants
• Loans
• Other (raising equity, entering an Energy Service
  Company (ESCO) contract, etc

Energy Saving Trust funding database http//origin
-akamai.est.org.uk/cafe/Green-Communities/Funding-
Advice/Green-Communities-Funding-Database
Funding guidance video http//www.planlocal.org.uk
/videos/videopages/project-finance.html
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How to get planning permission?
Stages of an application for planning permission

• Find out who your Local Authority or Local
  Authorities are?
• Fill in an application (Local Authority or
  Planning Portal)
• Local Authority checks, advertise and consult
• Local Authority considers national guidelines and
  local development plans, before making a
  recommendation to planning committee.
• Planning committee refuses or grants permission,
  maybe with conditions
• Local Authority responds within 8 weeks of
  application (could be longer if the application
  is complex or encounters opposition)

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Who owns the project?
Different options for owning and benefiting from
a community renewable energy projects

• Owned by members of the community
• Owned by a not-for-profit organisation
• Owned by the Local Authority
• Owned by a commercial company or managing agent
• Creating an Energy Service Company (ESCO)

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What are the next steps?

• Carry out an initial assessment
• Move into the detail of the project.
• Check out the rest of the Community Renewable
  Energy Toolkit
• Community Renewable Energy Projects Checklist a
  step to step guide with links to sources of
  information and assistance.
• Literature Library explore any of the topics
  covered in more detail.
• Both the checklist and the literature library can
  be found on the CLASP website.
• Visit www.clasp-nw.info for more information

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The wise man does at once what the fool does
finally. Baltasar Gracian (1601-1658)
Twenty years from now you will be more
disappointed by the things that you didn't do
than by the ones you did do Mark Twain
(1835-1910)
Good actions give strength to ourselves and
inspire good actions in others Plato (427 347
BC)
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• Picture references, in order of appearance
• Sellafield Dome, Greenpeace www.greenpeace.org.uk
• National Grid, Pradesh Today http//www.pradeshtod
  ay.com/new_details.php?news24hourelectricitysu
  pply
• Home appliances, Lowes Appliances online
  http//lowesappliances.net/
• Natural gas diagram, Clean Energy Cryostar
  http//www.cryostar.com/web/geopressure.php
• Gas flame, Lovelin Gas Boiler Service
  http//www.lovekin.co.uk/gas-boiler-service-alton-
  gu34.html
• Radiator, UK Heat.com http//www.ukheat.com/
• Sun, Bahiehk,com http//bahiehk.com/2011/02/15/
• Geothermal Energy, Alternative Energy Resources.
  net http//www.alternative-energy-resources.net/ad
  vantages-of-geothermal-energy.html
• Wave, Wikimedia Commons http//commons.wikimedia.o
  rg/wiki/FileOcean_surface_wave.jpg
• 10. Coal, Science Image http//www.scienceimage.cs
  iro.au/mediarelease/mr08-38.html
• Natural gas, Oil Gas Information
  http//oilgasinformation.com/natural-gas-uses
• Petroleum, The Encyclopaedia of Earth
  http//www.eoearth.org/articles/view/158383/
• Installer, Mark Group http//www.markgroup.co.uk/n
  ews/kingspan-solar-accreditation/
• Community stove, Baltidome blog
  http//baltidome.wordpress.com/2009/08/
• PV in school, Ashden Awards http//www.ashdenaward
  s.org/media/uk_photos/2008
• Community wind turbine, Ecodefy
  http//www.ecodyfi.org.uk/prnewturbine.htm
• Wind turbine, solar PV and hydro power systems,
  Energy Saving Trust
• Micro CHP, Ecobuild http//www.ecobuild.co.uk/exhi
  bitor-list/profile/1867/calor-gas-ltd.html