1. Greater South East Energy Hub Community Energy and Neighbourhood Planning 24th January John Taylor

2. BEIS: Why Local Energy? (#10yearchallenge)

3. BEIS: Local Energy Agenda
Technology
Building fabric
Economic Growth
Revenue generation
Jobs & growth
Public Health & Welfare
Fuel poverty
Air quality
Excess winter deaths
Cost Reduction
Low Carbon Transition
Industrial Strategy
Clean Growth Strategy
Behaviour change
Retrofit
Demand-side
Storage
Public sector leadership
Clean, smart, flexible local power
Demand Reduction
Supply
Business & Industrial Energy Efficiency
Distribution
Local Energy Priorities
Generation
Generation & decarbonisation
Planning
Heat
Policy & Strategy
Distribution – heat networks
Regulation
Low Carbon Transport
Hydrogen
Electrification

4. BEIS: Local Energy Hubs
Driver: to support local authorities and LEPs to make progress on local energy and climate change
Objectives
Increase number, quality and scale of local energy projects being delivered
Raise local awareness of opportunity for and benefits of local energy investment
Enable local areas to attract private and/or public finance for energy projects

5. GSE Energy Hub: Strategies
Local Energy East (New Anglia LEP, Hertfordshire LEP and Cambridge & Peterborough Combined Authority)
South2East (South East LEP, Coast to Capital LEP and Enterprise M3 LEP)
Oxfordshire LEP
South East Midlands LEP
Buckinghamshire Thames Valley LEP
Thames Valley Berkshire LEP

6. GSE Energy Strategies: Shared Themes & Challenges
Renewable generation
Smart energy systems
Transport & mobility
Low carbon heat
Energy saving & efficiency
Community energy
Clean economic growth
Housing & commercial site infrastructure
Secure, local, affordable consumption
Local economic benefit
Managing energy demand (local grid capacity & constraints)
Governance (policy & regulation)
Finance & business models
Business growth & skills
Partnerships & energy networking

7. Rural Community Energy Fund
Grants for feasibility studies and project development:
Renewable Heating for off gas grids/homes
EV charging infrastructure
Trialling new business models (i.e. Riding Sunbeams – solar farms powering railways)
Innovation to overcome Grid Constraints (i.e. battery storage)
Aiming for launch in Spring 2019 – talk to us now about your plans.