Banter 24: Solar PV and batteries in your Parish, 19Jun24, Alex Templeton

Alex demonstrates ways of installing and paying for Solar PV and Batteries in your local Community

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WEBVTT 1 00:04:10.040 --> 00:04:11.350 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: Large, 5, 2 00:04:47.920 --> 00:04:49.540 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: 3, 4, 5. 3 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:00.080 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: We don't use 0 2, 4. 4 00:05:31.020 --> 00:05:31.940 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: Hi Graham! 5 00:05:32.090 --> 00:05:34.219 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: Thanks. Good morning to you. 6 00:05:34.400 --> 00:05:35.699 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: And to you as well. 7 00:05:35.700 --> 00:05:38.750 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: You're looking very cool, relaxed, and cheerful the way. 8 00:05:38.750 --> 00:05:39.230 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: I mean. 9 00:05:39.230 --> 00:05:40.760 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: Was he fine at your end? 10 00:05:41.472 --> 00:05:43.097 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: Weather weather's lovely. 11 00:05:43.700 --> 00:05:45.140 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: yeah, no, I'm 12 00:05:45.180 --> 00:05:47.036 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: all good, I think. 13 00:05:47.500 --> 00:05:49.270 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: Well done. Well done! 14 00:05:50.578 --> 00:05:56.260 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: I think we got a lot of interest in today's talk. Let me just check and see how many people we're expecting. 15 00:05:57.810 --> 00:06:08.449 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: in case you're not aware of it. We have about 50 people who are never able to show up to the live events, so they all get logged in afterwards to pick up the video of the session. 16 00:06:08.450 --> 00:06:09.190 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: Okay. 17 00:06:09.190 --> 00:06:14.790 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: So whatever number you get today, then add 50 to that, for the number of attendees. 18 00:06:17.027 --> 00:06:19.602 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: Yeah, I I mean, I I wasn't. 19 00:06:21.140 --> 00:06:26.700 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: I suppose we're just about smoking what we're doing, what we think will be ready. 20 00:06:26.960 --> 00:06:32.579 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: Yeah. In the next few months, both with regard to community land, trust and community energy service companies. 21 00:06:32.960 --> 00:06:34.220 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: That's fine. Yeah. 22 00:06:34.220 --> 00:06:44.469 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: So and we're we're interested in de definitely harvesting names of individuals and parishes who are interested in 23 00:06:44.700 --> 00:06:47.439 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: knowing more. In a few months time. 24 00:06:47.580 --> 00:06:49.770 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: Yeah, we'll get all that today. 25 00:06:49.810 --> 00:06:50.940 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: Okay. 26 00:06:50.940 --> 00:06:51.790 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: Excellent. 27 00:06:53.050 --> 00:06:54.540 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: Just going to change. 28 00:07:03.850 --> 00:07:05.879 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: See where I am and who I am 29 00:07:20.610 --> 00:07:25.529 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: like. Can you see the picture of Mike Ekens's screen? Looks like 30 00:07:25.890 --> 00:07:28.590 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: it's 1 of those places you have to ask, which way is the wind blowing. 31 00:07:28.590 --> 00:07:31.260 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: Well, yeah, yes, no. It's a beautiful tree. 32 00:07:31.260 --> 00:07:32.829 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: Isn't it gorgeous? 33 00:07:32.830 --> 00:07:33.890 tristram cary Winchfield PC and Parish Online: Morning, Alex. 34 00:07:34.950 --> 00:07:36.160 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: Hi Tristram. 35 00:07:36.360 --> 00:07:37.410 tristram cary Winchfield PC and Parish Online: Tell you dude. 36 00:07:37.750 --> 00:07:38.933 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: Very good, thank you. 37 00:07:39.230 --> 00:07:40.040 tristram cary Winchfield PC and Parish Online: Good. 38 00:07:41.650 --> 00:07:42.890 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: Morning, Tristram. 39 00:07:43.180 --> 00:07:44.340 tristram cary Winchfield PC and Parish Online: Good morning, Graham. 40 00:07:45.220 --> 00:07:48.129 tristram cary Winchfield PC and Parish Online: I've got a new recruiter, I hope, coming to this meeting 41 00:07:48.810 --> 00:07:52.230 tristram cary Winchfield PC and Parish Online: from you. Shot Parish Council in hot. 42 00:07:52.840 --> 00:07:54.030 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: Oh, right! 43 00:07:54.030 --> 00:08:02.840 tristram cary Winchfield PC and Parish Online: Very, very keen on, very keen on this, and he's he's very active now with the Heart District Council, which is great. So he's a. He's a parish councillor, but also 44 00:08:03.120 --> 00:08:05.959 tristram cary Winchfield PC and Parish Online: appointed by heart to be a sort of lead. 45 00:08:06.790 --> 00:08:08.109 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: That's superb. All right. 46 00:08:08.110 --> 00:08:10.830 tristram cary Winchfield PC and Parish Online: So I think I think it's very that could be very useful. 47 00:08:11.090 --> 00:08:11.670 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: I'd 48 00:08:21.830 --> 00:08:23.130 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: morning, bonnie. 49 00:08:23.130 --> 00:08:24.380 Bonny Williams - Community Climate Action: You're boning. 50 00:08:24.380 --> 00:08:26.399 tristram cary Winchfield PC and Parish Online: And Alex, how's the seawall coming on. 51 00:08:29.070 --> 00:08:32.399 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: but down to 2 meters of in the trench. It's all very. 52 00:08:32.400 --> 00:08:33.120 tristram cary Winchfield PC and Parish Online: Long. 53 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:34.049 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: Challenging. 54 00:08:35.220 --> 00:08:36.270 tristram cary Winchfield PC and Parish Online: So sorry. 55 00:08:37.320 --> 00:08:39.650 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: That's just stuff that needs doing. 56 00:08:42.070 --> 00:08:43.100 Cllr Stuart Withington, Great Dunmow TC, Essex: That's nice. 57 00:08:47.380 --> 00:08:50.643 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: Mark has obviously arrived with a sense of humour this morning. 58 00:08:52.120 --> 00:08:52.990 tristram cary Winchfield PC and Parish Online: Who has. 59 00:08:53.680 --> 00:08:55.700 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: Mike, the guy with the picture of the. 60 00:08:55.700 --> 00:08:56.390 tristram cary Winchfield PC and Parish Online: Say, yeah, yeah. 61 00:08:56.390 --> 00:09:01.070 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: So you read about his chat, I mean, we say we thought at least we knew which way the wind was blowing around him. 62 00:09:05.900 --> 00:09:06.600 Bonny Williams - Community Climate Action: Hoop! 63 00:09:10.060 --> 00:09:12.410 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: Hey? Mike is a man with hair still. 64 00:09:14.320 --> 00:09:16.520 tristram cary Winchfield PC and Parish Online: Why do I? Can't I see my chat for some reason? 65 00:09:19.750 --> 00:09:20.660 tristram cary Winchfield PC and Parish Online: Yeah. 66 00:09:21.750 --> 00:09:22.869 tristram cary Winchfield PC and Parish Online: I cannot. 67 00:09:24.380 --> 00:09:25.289 Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: Flash, go in events. 68 00:09:25.290 --> 00:09:32.219 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: So just so everyone's aware we are expecting roughly 20 people odd. So I'm just hanging in there whilst 69 00:09:32.630 --> 00:09:34.700 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: people arrive. 70 00:09:37.460 --> 00:09:41.619 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: and in the case of managing expectations, Alex. 71 00:09:41.690 --> 00:09:49.869 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: It often takes about 5 min for people to settle in and say that they're here, and they got off their late calls and their previous meeting, whatever else is. 72 00:09:50.340 --> 00:09:51.920 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: It's pretty standard. 73 00:09:51.920 --> 00:09:52.265 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: Yes. 74 00:09:57.450 --> 00:10:10.210 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: on previous occasions we have had requests from people which I think are very reasonable. Which say, could we adjust our our name identifiers, so that they least know either where we are or what represent what 75 00:10:10.270 --> 00:10:12.229 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: organization we represent. 76 00:10:13.410 --> 00:10:14.280 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: Soap 77 00:10:14.830 --> 00:10:19.680 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: the newcomers will not have that, and some of the old comers certainly will do 78 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:27.859 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: so. We're about halfway through with people so far. 79 00:10:34.380 --> 00:10:35.690 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: elephants. Okay. 80 00:10:43.750 --> 00:10:44.420 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: 2. 81 00:10:51.120 --> 00:10:51.840 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: Pick up 82 00:10:54.740 --> 00:10:55.649 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: the fingerprint 83 00:11:02.950 --> 00:11:07.499 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: this time of the year, and today is very windy down on the Isle of Wight. 84 00:11:08.900 --> 00:11:15.790 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: You have to learn to determine whether the outside noise is the wind rushing through the leaves or the water 85 00:11:15.960 --> 00:11:18.380 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: rushing severely at the beach. 86 00:11:22.120 --> 00:11:26.169 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: I just do this to make you all feel extremely envious and sorry that you aren't. 87 00:11:27.610 --> 00:11:31.560 Cllr Stuart Withington, Great Dunmow TC, Essex: i i i gather, the round the island race was quite exciting. 88 00:11:33.870 --> 00:11:38.229 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: Well, certainly, for those who went there a large number of them found it cancelled on them. 89 00:11:38.900 --> 00:11:39.250 Cllr Stuart Withington, Great Dunmow TC, Essex: Yeah, well. 90 00:11:39.250 --> 00:11:39.710 tristram cary Winchfield PC and Parish Online: And what. 91 00:11:39.710 --> 00:11:43.580 Cllr Stuart Withington, Great Dunmow TC, Essex: When I did it, that they had a limit of I think it was 30 foot 92 00:11:43.870 --> 00:11:45.880 Cllr Stuart Withington, Great Dunmow TC, Essex: anything less than 30 foot. 93 00:11:45.880 --> 00:11:51.020 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: Exactly. I I think they shut it down to all vessels less than 10 meters. On Saturday. 94 00:11:51.240 --> 00:11:51.970 Cllr Stuart Withington, Great Dunmow TC, Essex: Man. 95 00:11:51.970 --> 00:11:55.269 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: On the other hand, the big boats went round faster than ever, and. 96 00:11:55.270 --> 00:11:55.750 Cllr Stuart Withington, Great Dunmow TC, Essex: Yes. 97 00:11:55.750 --> 00:12:00.299 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: The winner was around in 2 h, which is, you haven't even got time to eat breakfast. 98 00:12:04.140 --> 00:12:06.180 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: But it was a very dramatic day. 99 00:12:19.480 --> 00:12:20.000 tristram cary Winchfield PC and Parish Online: Hmm. 100 00:12:27.380 --> 00:12:31.819 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: So for those who've arrived in the last couple of minutes, we're asking people if they would 101 00:12:31.920 --> 00:12:38.310 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: adjust their names to indicate where they're from, or at least which organization they represent. 102 00:12:39.150 --> 00:12:39.990 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: so. 103 00:12:57.400 --> 00:13:00.000 tristram cary Winchfield PC and Parish Online: Looks like that's all you're gonna get on time. 104 00:13:00.560 --> 00:13:04.418 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: Oh, no, I think we give it a minute or so yet. 105 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:16.245 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: Usually 106 00:13:17.940 --> 00:13:22.279 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: The the key indicator is Amanda. Once Amanda's arrived, when when we can go. 107 00:13:22.280 --> 00:13:26.359 tristram cary Winchfield PC and Parish Online: Yeah, that's true, Matt, as always. Yeah, she's always she's so busy she can't get there on time. 108 00:13:26.360 --> 00:13:27.470 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: That's right. 109 00:13:28.340 --> 00:13:34.649 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: Yeah. What I can do is go through my formal blurb to satisfy the Gdpr police. So 110 00:13:35.035 --> 00:13:44.740 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: everyone, please note that we do record these sessions. And if you have any objection to being on video which will be put up on Youtube, then now is the time to make sure your camera is off. 111 00:13:45.180 --> 00:13:49.350 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: and you wipe all the smiles off your faces, and generally look like it. 112 00:13:49.620 --> 00:13:52.550 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: Very unhappy bunch of depressed people 113 00:13:52.880 --> 00:13:53.830 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: just Sue. 114 00:13:54.810 --> 00:13:57.310 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: and satisfy the police that all is 115 00:13:58.190 --> 00:14:00.130 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: well. There's the world. 116 00:14:06.830 --> 00:14:11.059 tristram cary Winchfield PC and Parish Online: Yes, I should turn my microphone off. Good morning, David Morgan Jones. 117 00:14:11.400 --> 00:14:13.030 tristram cary Winchfield PC and Parish Online: It's a new newcomer. 118 00:14:13.030 --> 00:14:13.800 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: Is he your friend? 119 00:14:13.800 --> 00:14:14.473 David Morgan-Jones: Good morning! 120 00:14:14.810 --> 00:14:15.370 tristram cary Winchfield PC and Parish Online: Yep 121 00:14:15.520 --> 00:14:24.489 tristram cary Winchfield PC and Parish Online: from you shot, and very, very important man, because he's he's in very close with heart counsel on climate action. 122 00:14:24.490 --> 00:14:25.040 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: I'm right. 123 00:14:25.040 --> 00:14:32.520 tristram cary Winchfield PC and Parish Online: Very. We had a very good meeting yesterday, where we finally got some support from them from the District Council. 124 00:14:33.390 --> 00:14:35.859 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: As a result of David's efforts. 125 00:14:36.280 --> 00:14:38.450 tristram cary Winchfield PC and Parish Online: How you manage it, but it's very clever. 126 00:14:40.190 --> 00:14:45.390 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: Well, that's very dangerous day, because you're going to get deluge by a whole bunch of people who want to know what you said, into whom. 127 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:49.380 David Morgan-Jones: No problem. 128 00:14:50.350 --> 00:15:07.610 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: Alright. Well, as we come up to the 5th minute, which is I the time limit I give to people I'm going to say, welcome to you all. Thank you very much for showing up. I think we're gonna have a fascinating talk this afternoon from Alex and Alex. I will leave the ball entirely in your court, so it's all yours. 129 00:15:07.780 --> 00:15:08.430 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: But. 130 00:15:08.430 --> 00:15:12.580 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: Thanks, Graham. I'm I'm gonna share my screen. I've got a a presentation. 131 00:15:13.644 --> 00:15:15.819 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: Hopefully, that is visible. 132 00:15:16.330 --> 00:15:17.770 Graham Stoddart-Stones - GC Isle of Wight: Yup no problem. 133 00:15:18.592 --> 00:15:21.060 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: Right? So right? 134 00:15:21.270 --> 00:15:28.919 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: So right back talk, how do we accelerate the installation of solar Pv. And battery storage in parishes 135 00:15:28.980 --> 00:15:30.160 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: everywhere. 136 00:15:30.340 --> 00:15:33.529 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: trying to do it everywhere. But parishes are a particular focus. 137 00:15:33.820 --> 00:15:34.385 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: So 138 00:15:35.130 --> 00:15:44.549 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: I'm Alex Templeton. I work for a social enterprise called Uk Community Works. We're part of a team led by Essex County Council on a project called 139 00:15:44.700 --> 00:15:45.760 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: Best next. 140 00:15:45.970 --> 00:15:54.370 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: with funded by innovate pay. I could tell you they are later. If if you'll be interested. And as part of the net 0 141 00:15:54.490 --> 00:15:55.790 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: living program 142 00:15:56.070 --> 00:15:57.970 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: and the objective 143 00:15:58.100 --> 00:16:02.919 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: we're we're looking on. Project is, how do we speed up the installation of renewable energy in communities. 144 00:16:02.950 --> 00:16:15.529 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: and our goal is to make it as simple as possible for any home or business, or farm or community collectively to install solar PBX. 145 00:16:15.900 --> 00:16:16.970 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: So I suppose 146 00:16:17.030 --> 00:16:31.359 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: 1st 1st question is, why why are we doing this? And 3 main answers, energy costs have written dram risen dramatically in the last couple of years. Although they're coming down a bit, chances are they're going to stay high for quite a long time, and maybe 147 00:16:31.550 --> 00:16:38.889 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: even go up again later this year. Cornwall insight of predicting that they're due to go up passing them down over the course of the year. 148 00:16:39.020 --> 00:16:40.060 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: This is how to 149 00:16:40.200 --> 00:16:46.060 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: very large impact on on household budgets, especially for the poorer 50% of households. 150 00:16:46.390 --> 00:16:48.090 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: Second motivation. 151 00:16:48.220 --> 00:16:55.560 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: stressing climate change. And although we've made progress, the Uk is nowhere near on track to hit net 0 by 2,050, 152 00:16:55.730 --> 00:17:08.650 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: and the 3rd is is local. Economic benefit and generating energy locally enables people to retain sort of profits and other sort of values, such as supporting local businesses and job creation 153 00:17:08.800 --> 00:17:10.022 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: you can select. 154 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:12.349 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: And 155 00:17:13.450 --> 00:17:26.660 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: so in theory, growing awareness of climate change and its risks, and the rising cost of energy means that we should all be installing solar Pv. Because on balance it's cheaper, it's cleaner 156 00:17:27.099 --> 00:17:38.190 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: and so on. But in practice adoption is really slow. We've got 30 million homes in the country, and just 1.2 5 million have installed solar pv today. 157 00:17:38.700 --> 00:17:42.530 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: So what's what is stopping us? I mean, the 1st one is 158 00:17:42.720 --> 00:17:45.549 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: is cash flow and liquid capital 159 00:17:45.750 --> 00:17:49.479 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: bottom. 50% of households have got just 160 00:17:49.550 --> 00:17:53.510 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: 2,060 pounds of average cash that they can get their hands on 161 00:17:53.850 --> 00:18:04.610 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: the bottom. 80% of just got 12.5,000 as from office of national statistics data, I must admit we were fairly startled by those numbers. 162 00:18:04.900 --> 00:18:12.930 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: And no one's going to spend all of their savings on one thing they tends to keep their money for for other things. But basically 163 00:18:13.470 --> 00:18:18.460 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: very few people can afford to to decarbonize if they have to invest 164 00:18:18.480 --> 00:18:19.520 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: upfront 165 00:18:19.760 --> 00:18:22.440 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: to to buy something. It's just not gonna happen. 166 00:18:23.066 --> 00:18:28.950 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: Secondly, slow rates of return. If you don't have a lot of liquid capital, you're looking for 167 00:18:29.150 --> 00:18:34.369 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: for a reasonably fast rate of return on your investment and solar and battery storage 168 00:18:34.640 --> 00:18:43.949 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: probably take at least 7 years to pay for itself, and probably a bit longer, depending on on how you, how you sort of use energy. 169 00:18:44.480 --> 00:18:55.279 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: It's also a lack of information of what is possible. There's some distrust of the suppliers. There was the rental roof scandal a few years back that is stuck quite strongly in people's minds. 170 00:18:55.340 --> 00:18:58.480 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: and a general sense of not knowing where to start. 171 00:19:00.770 --> 00:19:01.700 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: Sorry 172 00:19:02.270 --> 00:19:15.140 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: we've got some clear problems, energy costs and carbon emission. We've got an obvious solution, which is polar Pv and battery storage. And we've got some barriers preventing widespread adoption of which, knowing what to do 173 00:19:15.715 --> 00:19:20.070 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: lack of finance and cash flow, are are probably the most important barriers. 174 00:19:20.360 --> 00:19:21.220 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: So 175 00:19:21.490 --> 00:19:29.629 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: we, our team, took a look at sort of if we could do things differently. What would that look like? Sort of what if we could go online and find out 176 00:19:29.910 --> 00:19:34.799 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: what I could generate on my home, my business, my farm, just by clicking on my 177 00:19:34.920 --> 00:19:36.190 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: house on a map. 178 00:19:36.550 --> 00:19:41.000 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: sort of what if I could upload some billing data and find out how much I could save 179 00:19:41.020 --> 00:19:43.150 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: and work out roughly what it would cost. 180 00:19:43.990 --> 00:19:51.029 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: and if I can't afford it, I'd have an easy option to have the Pv. And battery installed at no upfront cost. 181 00:19:51.060 --> 00:19:53.629 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: and then pay for the electricity 182 00:19:53.660 --> 00:19:55.480 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: on a pay as you go. Basis. 183 00:19:55.840 --> 00:19:57.549 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: What if if 184 00:19:57.640 --> 00:20:06.530 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: a parish council or a community group, or the District council that interested, or if there are set of tools that would enable them to easily use 185 00:20:06.990 --> 00:20:08.370 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: information 186 00:20:08.550 --> 00:20:13.499 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: to sort of to sort of coordinate place based projects at community level. 187 00:20:15.660 --> 00:20:16.510 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: So 188 00:20:17.320 --> 00:20:23.419 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: working on through those problems and through the potential solutions, we've come up with a community energy 189 00:20:23.450 --> 00:20:26.739 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: service company concept and model. 190 00:20:26.810 --> 00:20:27.920 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: This model 191 00:20:28.130 --> 00:20:33.600 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: gives homes and businesses and communities information on what? What 192 00:20:33.630 --> 00:20:36.379 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: what they are interested in can generate. 193 00:20:38.690 --> 00:20:41.760 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: we then build a list 194 00:20:42.070 --> 00:20:55.709 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: use use this data in various different ways. Typically in our pilots, we're collaborating with parish councils and community groups. We're doing leaflets, flyers, emails, webinars, village called events. 195 00:20:56.530 --> 00:21:02.709 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: So we collaborate with the community, and we build a list of those interested with host communities. 196 00:21:02.810 --> 00:21:06.659 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: We then go to funders and use the list 197 00:21:06.960 --> 00:21:11.810 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: to raise finance, at which point we conduct detailed feasibility studies. 198 00:21:12.940 --> 00:21:16.640 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: We procure install and commission 199 00:21:16.720 --> 00:21:19.269 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: the solar Pv and battery storage systems. 200 00:21:20.140 --> 00:21:22.089 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: and we oversee the installation. 201 00:21:22.450 --> 00:21:24.890 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: Once this is installed. 202 00:21:24.920 --> 00:21:27.520 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: a household or a business, or a farm 203 00:21:27.630 --> 00:21:29.220 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: as 3 options. 204 00:21:30.140 --> 00:21:31.420 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: The 1st 205 00:21:31.810 --> 00:21:36.070 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: is that you can. Just once it's installed, you can buy the Pv. Array outright. 206 00:21:36.280 --> 00:21:40.519 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: The second is, you can enter into a pay as you go. Arrangement 207 00:21:41.298 --> 00:21:45.420 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: with this, not for profit, community Energy Service Company 208 00:21:45.800 --> 00:21:48.269 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: and for those households that cannot 209 00:21:50.570 --> 00:21:56.329 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: be installed because the property is shaded by trees. It's in conservation area. It's in this building. 210 00:21:56.350 --> 00:21:58.889 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: It's got a landlord that doesn't approve. 211 00:22:00.710 --> 00:22:14.579 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: We can have them enter into an arrangement where they so this energy that is spilled into the grid, the excess energy they buy that energy. So they're buying locally produced renewable energy at a discount from what they would buy from their normal, supplier 212 00:22:18.013 --> 00:22:19.829 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: the benefits of its model. 213 00:22:20.700 --> 00:22:25.050 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: So for households and organizations that buy the array 214 00:22:25.570 --> 00:22:32.000 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: outright will have done due diligence on suppliers. We'll have a panel of accredited installers. 215 00:22:32.493 --> 00:22:37.230 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: Specifiers that have already jumped through these hoops will be 216 00:22:37.530 --> 00:22:38.770 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: doing the work. 217 00:22:38.910 --> 00:22:44.340 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: We'll be getting a discount because of through bulk purchasing, because we're installing hundreds 218 00:22:44.460 --> 00:22:53.179 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: projects. In one phase there will be, you know. There will be significant discounts on some of the key components of the batteries and the solar panels. 219 00:22:53.970 --> 00:22:54.900 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: and 220 00:22:55.140 --> 00:23:06.170 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: they can, even if you bought the array outright, you can still participate in our wider smart local energy system network to provide grid services and sell to neighbors 221 00:23:08.380 --> 00:23:10.200 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: benefits for 222 00:23:10.380 --> 00:23:18.409 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: households and organizations that enter the pay as you go. Basically, they can install solar Pv at no upfront cost 223 00:23:18.500 --> 00:23:21.879 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: which gives them an opportunity to reduce their electricity bills 224 00:23:22.180 --> 00:23:26.090 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: and sort of decarbonize their electricity use. 225 00:23:26.140 --> 00:23:30.220 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: and it doesn't matter that they've got no money, that they can just go ahead with that. 226 00:23:30.300 --> 00:23:32.510 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: And for those that cannot. 227 00:23:33.364 --> 00:23:41.860 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: It's generate energy produced locally generate energy themselves, for whatever reason they've got the opportunity to buy their neighbors. 228 00:23:42.010 --> 00:23:47.880 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: Energy and other energy generated by other households and businesses in our network. 229 00:23:49.850 --> 00:23:52.769 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: right progress. So far. So we've we've 230 00:23:52.860 --> 00:23:58.909 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: secured innovate UK funding and money from Offgen to development 231 00:23:58.940 --> 00:24:00.729 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: key elements of this model. 232 00:24:00.840 --> 00:24:07.890 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: We've done geospatial surveys of the whole of Essex and a number of parishes in Suffolk and Kent and West Sussex. 233 00:24:08.370 --> 00:24:13.339 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: We're working with 2 pilot clusters of parishes 234 00:24:13.560 --> 00:24:23.889 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: in Essex that's in the Colne Valley and in the Manningtree area. It's a total of 12 parishes, and we're sort of co-designing the services and the contracts and all the rest of it, with 235 00:24:24.070 --> 00:24:31.220 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: with members of these community. And we're getting excellent feedback and adapting. What the offering is as a result of that feedback. 236 00:24:32.163 --> 00:24:33.230 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: We've developed 237 00:24:33.510 --> 00:24:38.150 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: contract set that that we've used with pilot homes. We've installed 238 00:24:38.634 --> 00:24:41.469 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: solar panels and batteries in several pilot homes. 239 00:24:41.550 --> 00:24:45.529 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: and we've got expressions of interest from several 100 homes in 240 00:24:45.720 --> 00:24:48.190 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: in our pilot areas. 241 00:24:48.570 --> 00:24:49.400 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: And with 242 00:24:50.560 --> 00:24:52.593 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: what are we doing next? 243 00:24:53.600 --> 00:24:56.919 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: we're about to conclude funding for a 500 home pilot. 244 00:24:56.990 --> 00:25:04.189 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: We will finalize the contracts based on the feedback from the people who are using the contract so far 245 00:25:04.780 --> 00:25:12.719 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: finished developing the smart local energy system elements of the offer which which allows trading between households. 246 00:25:13.769 --> 00:25:21.899 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: We're gonna be working with Tristram on the to enable all of this data and information that we're working on to be 247 00:25:22.120 --> 00:25:24.840 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: viewed through the parish online portal. 248 00:25:25.090 --> 00:25:30.019 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: And and hopefully, whether that will go on a parish website or some other 249 00:25:30.585 --> 00:25:33.960 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: some other method of making that information available to 250 00:25:34.030 --> 00:25:36.399 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: businesses and tenants in a parish area. 251 00:25:36.460 --> 00:25:41.600 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: We're still to figure out the details. But the intention is to make all of this data freely available. 252 00:25:41.960 --> 00:25:48.639 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: And we're also going to be working with parish online to develop a how to guide all parish councils 253 00:25:48.660 --> 00:25:56.799 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: and do this with parish councils. So it's as simple as possible. It makes sense and is easily can be easily implemented. 254 00:25:58.045 --> 00:26:02.734 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: That's an awful lot of words. I'll give you a few pictures to go with it. 255 00:26:04.330 --> 00:26:08.289 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: So this is the village of Frampton, in Suffolk. We just done a Town Hall event. 256 00:26:08.907 --> 00:26:13.680 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: With them over there. It's fairly small. It's about 140 homes 257 00:26:14.050 --> 00:26:20.820 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: and a few businesses. The greenhouses, the green buildings, are ones that can have solar Pv on them. 258 00:26:20.930 --> 00:26:25.840 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: The red ones are the ones that probably can't for various different reasons. 259 00:26:26.947 --> 00:26:28.730 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: As a sort of close up 260 00:26:30.480 --> 00:26:37.770 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: the data's not 100% accurate, but it's it's getting better, and it's pretty pretty close. But if you click on one of these houses. 261 00:26:38.150 --> 00:26:40.440 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: one of these green shapes 262 00:26:40.480 --> 00:26:46.910 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: you would get an awful lot of information, and, to be honest, too much information, we need to simplify it. So 263 00:26:47.561 --> 00:26:57.180 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: the owner of a house or a business or a farm, only gets the information that they need rather than an awful lot of other information that they probably don't need to know 264 00:26:57.810 --> 00:26:58.580 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: clouds. 265 00:26:59.180 --> 00:27:07.665 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: We're also, we can also do the same with land parcels and with with small scale wind. So the same principles apply that you know the the 266 00:27:08.310 --> 00:27:17.110 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: you click on a field, work out what it might generate where the local supply transformers are to connect to the capacity in those transformers, and so on. 267 00:27:18.860 --> 00:27:24.279 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: If you decide to an express an interest in a, a, a. 268 00:27:24.390 --> 00:27:30.089 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: a house, keep it simple, a house, and we do a more detailed survey that would involve 269 00:27:30.210 --> 00:27:35.379 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: a surveyor come to visit the house and some initial modeling that would help you decide 270 00:27:35.766 --> 00:27:38.919 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: whether to take this forward. So we'd we'd model the roof 271 00:27:39.250 --> 00:27:41.979 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: we model whether there's any overshading. 272 00:27:42.140 --> 00:27:47.670 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: and by trees the house of a chair of a parish council in West Sussex. 273 00:27:48.614 --> 00:27:53.160 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: we work out where there's most sunlight on the house. 274 00:27:53.180 --> 00:27:54.279 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: and so on. 275 00:27:54.430 --> 00:27:57.529 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: All of this is pretty standard stuff. If you're getting a 276 00:27:58.100 --> 00:28:01.799 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: you're getting solar Pv installed, but we're able to 277 00:28:02.170 --> 00:28:06.510 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: not exactly automate it, but to do this much more cheaply, possibly, than 278 00:28:06.560 --> 00:28:08.180 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: it has been done before. 279 00:28:08.940 --> 00:28:12.249 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: to give people information on whether to take a decision. 280 00:28:13.200 --> 00:28:16.899 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: And if you upload your billing data, we can produce 281 00:28:17.150 --> 00:28:20.030 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: a fairly detailed 282 00:28:20.380 --> 00:28:23.180 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: sort of number on the payback time 283 00:28:23.750 --> 00:28:27.059 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: again. All of this is pretty standard these days, but but 284 00:28:27.680 --> 00:28:32.269 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: I think we're going to be making it more widely available. We hope to be making it more widely available. 285 00:28:33.540 --> 00:28:35.109 Alex Templeton - UK Community Works CIC: So that's it. That's 286 00:28:35.310 --> 00:28:38.219

Banter 24: Solar PV and batteries in your Parish, 19Jun24, Alex Templeton

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