Thames Valley Vision - Carbon Reduction
Mark Stannard of Scottish and Southern Energy
will give a presentation in respect of the Thames Valley Vision for
Carbon reduction which aims to find new ways of managing the
existing UK national electricity power grid in the future.
Minutes:
Mark Stannard, Scottish and Southern Energy
(SSE), gave a presentation in respect of the Thames Valley Vision
for Carbon reduction which aimed to find new ways of managing the
existing UK national electricity power grid in future.
SSE operated a network in
northern Scotland and central southern England with 127,000km of
overhead lines and underground cables and delivering electricity to
3.5 million homes, offices and businesses. SSE had a Regulated
Asset Value of £3.21 billion.
Preparing for a low carbon
future would involve achieving a 20% reduction in carbon dioxide
(CO2) emissions and 20% of final energy consumption
being from renewable sources by 2020. The UK Government had pledged
to cut carbon emissions by 80% by 2050.
179 domestic customers had
signed up to SSE carbon reduction scheme and another 71 were being
sought for the initial tranche for the scheme. Twelve commercial
buildings were signed up and another 18 were being sought for the
initial tranche.
In response to Members’ questions, the
following comments were made:
- Letters had been sent to 15,000
households across the Borough inviting people to become involved
with the SSE carbon reduction project. There had been press
releases, information on their website, and an Advisory Centre was
due to open on the High Street in Bracknell on Saturday 15 December
2012. It was a five year project and SSE were currently one year
into the project.
- Certain clusters of customers were
needed to make the project statistically significant but SSE would
not turn customers away who were interested in being part of the
project.
- The core responsibility of SSE was
to keep the electricity network functional. The project was about
how to manage the network more effectively. SSE would be happy to
advise customers on how to reduce their consumption but the project
was not aimed at reducing electricity bills specifically.
- Members of the
Environment, Culture and Communities Overview and Scrutiny Panel
and of the Planning Committee would receive an invitation to
Scottish and Southern Energy’s Advisory Centre in Bracknell
when it opened in December 2012.
- The Advisory Centre, once open,
could advise people on where to obtain solar tiles which were more
expensive than solar panels but looked better aesthetically.
- The map of residents who had
registered for the project in Bracknell showed they were mostly
based in South Bracknell at present. Letters had been sent to a
wide range of residents in the Borough but the map showed the
residents who had registered so far.
- A student had been learning about
the project at SSE and would feed back to other students.
- SSE had visited Garth Hill College
recently about the project, Edgbarrow School had signed up to the
response agreement, and Bracknell and Wokingham College were
interested in the project as well.
- 250 domestic customers in Bracknell
were being sought for the short term target for the project.
- Being able to monitor electricity
consumption by the minute and record consumption could help people
to identify and reduce their consumption, thereby ...
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