# POWER workshops - 26Nov25 - Planning Our Way to Energy Resilience {% embed url="" %} Video of the whole session *** ### Presentation: {% file src="/files/4Ce2qArc2YdzQVNKC4tH" %} *** ### Meeting Summary: ### Quick recap The meeting introduced participants with diverse backgrounds in environmental and community energy projects, including representatives from Community Climate Action who outlined their POWER program to support community energy planning. Joolz presented on the urgent climate crisis and discussed various funding options for community energy projects, including grants and local authority investment, while sharing examples of successful initiatives and emphasizing the importance of distributed energy production. The group explored potential community energy projects, including solar canopies and battery storage, with discussions focusing on practical implementation challenges and opportunities for local energy generation and sale. ### Next steps * [Joolz: Share slides, recording, and AI transcript with all participants](https://us06tasks.zoom.us/?meetingId=HoU41l8rSQGNWAEVr6mxkQ%3D%3D\&stepId=c105359d-caf7-11f0-bbb3-46d1a12b50ee) * [Ian: Share presentation materials with Donna at Stanway Parish Council after being co-opted](https://us06tasks.zoom.us/?meetingId=HoU41l8rSQGNWAEVr6mxkQ%3D%3D\&stepId=c1053a5d-caf7-11f0-9488-46d1a12b50ee) * [Joolz: Find examples of solar canopy car park projects and send them to Jane](https://us06tasks.zoom.us/?meetingId=HoU41l8rSQGNWAEVr6mxkQ%3D%3D\&stepId=c1053bea-caf7-11f0-8631-46d1a12b50ee) * [Omar: Meet with Vita later this week to explore joining forces across counties](https://us06tasks.zoom.us/?meetingId=HoU41l8rSQGNWAEVr6mxkQ%3D%3D\&stepId=c1053d30-caf7-11f0-91cd-46d1a12b50ee) * [Martyn: Attend Energy Local training in January to understand requirements for community energy group setup](https://us06tasks.zoom.us/?meetingId=HoU41l8rSQGNWAEVr6mxkQ%3D%3D\&stepId=c1053e68-caf7-11f0-bf5d-46d1a12b50ee) * [Joolz: Follow up with Judith about Village Hall energy projects and potential funding options](https://us06tasks.zoom.us/?meetingId=HoU41l8rSQGNWAEVr6mxkQ%3D%3D\&stepId=c1053f97-caf7-11f0-aaa0-46d1a12b50ee) * [Joolz: Continue conversations with Ian about Stanway Parish Council energy projects after his co-option](https://us06tasks.zoom.us/?meetingId=HoU41l8rSQGNWAEVr6mxkQ%3D%3D\&stepId=c10540b1-caf7-11f0-bae6-46d1a12b50ee) ### Summary #### *Participant Introductions and Session Overview* The meeting began with introductions, where Ian shared his background as a professional engineer with experience in environmental projects, and Judith introduced herself as the secretary of a local village hall with potential for solar panels and energy efficiency upgrades. Joolz, the facilitator, explained the session's structure and encouraged participants to add their locations to their names for better follow-up. Joanne mentioned she might have to leave early due to a hospital call, and Joolz confirmed the session would be recorded. The group waited for more participants to join, with Joolz noting that 12 people had registered but only seven were present. #### *Community Climate Action Workshop* Bonnie introduced herself and explained that she works with Joolz at Community Climate Action, collaborating with Essex County Council to bring the POWER program to the group. She outlined their usual work of conducting workshops for community groups to help them create and implement plans, with energy being one of the areas they focus on. Bonnie requested that each participant introduce themselves and share their location and any specific energy projects they might have in mind, starting with Ian. #### *Community Energy Initiatives Discussion* The meeting introduced participants with backgrounds in environmental and community energy projects, including Ian, Joanne, Martyn, Judith, Christopher, Jane, Lavinia, and Omar. They discussed ongoing and potential community energy initiatives, such as solar panels, ground source heating, and wind turbines, with a focus on funding challenges and opportunities. Joolz and Bonny, representing Community Climate Action, outlined the POWER program, which aims to support communities in planning for energy resilience, and invited participants to engage further with the initiative. #### *Community Renewable Energy Initiatives* Joolz presented on the urgent climate crisis, highlighting impacts like melting ice caps, extreme weather, and food security threats, while noting that global heating is exceeding safe limits. She discussed a community renewable energy project in Norfolk involving agri-voltaics and wind turbines, which received government funding for feasibility studies. Joolz outlined various funding routes for community energy projects, including grants, community shares, and local authority investment, while emphasizing the importance of distributed energy production with clear community benefits. She concluded by calling for action to address climate change and invited attendees to participate in upcoming power workshops. #### *Community Climate Action Initiatives* Joolz discussed the importance of community climate action and shared insights from a recent workshop in Colchester. She explained the concept of match-funded workshops, where town or parish councils can contribute £600 for a 50% match by Essex County Council. Joolz also highlighted ongoing projects, such as a solar-covered pub and a new initiative to supply energy locally, which could reduce costs for residents by up to 30%. She encouraged communities to get involved and provided details on how to contact Community Climate Action for further information. #### *Community Energy Resilience Program* Joolz presented an energy resilience program offering funding and support for community projects, including a £2,500 energy audit and potential six-figure capital funding for village halls. Judith mentioned that her village hall had already undergone an energy audit, which was less helpful than expected. Joolz explained the program's focus on detailed surveys, renewable energy options, and carbon impact assessments, using examples like Ollie's desktop feasibility study for Plume Academy. The presentation concluded with an invitation for communities to join the program, emphasizing support for community energy groups and collaboration opportunities. #### *Local Electricity Sales Options* The meeting discussed the potential for generating and selling excess electricity from a village hall and other local facilities. Joolz explained various options, including storing excess energy in a battery, selling it directly to businesses, or joining an Energy Local club to sell electricity to local households at a higher rate than to suppliers. Martyn inquired about setting up an Energy Local group, and Joolz clarified that generators would not need to declare themselves as suppliers but could negotiate power purchase agreements with organizations like 100 Green. The group also discussed the role of Energy Local as an aggregator of customers rather than generators, helping small generators navigate the process of selling their electricity. #### *Community Energy Project Flexibility* The group discussed a community energy project where 100 Green would supply electricity to residents when local generation from the Village Hall is insufficient, offering cost savings of 20-30% through reduced transmission losses. Joolz explained that community projects can vary in scale, from small village halls to larger rural networks, and highlighted a successful example in Norfolk where wind turbines were proposed as an alternative to a large solar farm to better integrate with the landscape. The discussion clarified that community energy projects can be flexible in size and scope, focusing on both local generation and broader community benefits. #### *Community Solar Development Strategies* The group discussed community energy projects, with Joolz suggesting it would be more cost-effective to join existing legal entities rather than creating new micro-entities. Jane raised concerns about solar development in her area, particularly regarding agricultural land, and Joolz explained that solar on stilts could be an option, with panels high enough for combines to pass under. The discussion concluded with Joolz highlighting the potential benefits of solar canopies for car parks, including power generation, shade, and charging facilities, referencing a similar project being developed by Cambridgeshire's Community Energy Officer. #### *Community Solar Energy Initiatives* The group discussed solar energy initiatives, with Joolz explaining that solar canopies could be installed in village hall car parks and sharing examples of existing implementations. They explored the challenges of large-scale battery storage projects, with Joolz advocating for community energy approaches that benefit local areas rather than international capital. The discussion concluded with Martyn and Jane expressing interest in pursuing community energy projects, with Martyn confirming their community energy group would attend energy local training in January. *** ### Chat: 00:15:21 Vita Andrew: Hi, I’m Vita from Cambridgeshire County Council. We’re looking at how we can engage communities broadly. Apologies – my microphone is off. 01:11:22 Christopher Blomeley: Apologies, I need to leave. 01:15:12 Lavinia Tendring – Essex: I must dash as well, thank you for an interesting meeting. 01:15:42 Joanne Knowles – Horsham: Many thanks – really inspiring. Have to leave now. Cheers. *** ### Audio-transcript for AI Indexing purposes: WEBVTT 1 \ 00:00:35.050 --> 00:00:44.709 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: Link onto here… Yeah. My background, actually is as an engineer, a professional engineer. 2 \ 00:00:44.910 --> 00:00:51.909 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: I've spent, 25 years working in the built environment. 3 \ 00:00:52.630 --> 00:01:00.760 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: I've then spent 11 years self-employed, working in energy, green, environmental projects. 4 \ 00:01:01.110 --> 00:01:03.070 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: As a self-employed. 5 \ 00:01:03.220 --> 00:01:09.109 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: And, always been interested in the environment, basically. 6 \ 00:01:09.580 --> 00:01:13.909 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Fantastic! Wow, what a… what an amazing set of skills. 7 \ 00:01:14.050 --> 00:01:17.589 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: I think you'll be able to help a lot. And how about you, Judith? 8 \ 00:01:18.340 --> 00:01:24.030 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: I'm the secretary of the Local Village Hall, and we have an enormous south-facing roof. 9 \ 00:01:24.240 --> 00:01:27.019 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: And we have a boiler that's 32 years old. 10 \ 00:01:27.500 --> 00:01:37.869 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: And, so great potential for solar panels, air source heat pump, and insulation, because this is a hall built in 1960. 11 \ 00:01:38.090 --> 00:01:47.650 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: It's not got, concrete… concrete rock… rot, and we've had one quote so far for solar panels, but not for anything else. 12 \ 00:01:48.440 --> 00:01:51.219 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Okay, cool. And whereabouts are you based, Judith? 13 \ 00:01:51.220 --> 00:01:53.969 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: Roxwell in Essex, near Chelmsford. 14 \ 00:01:54.200 --> 00:01:55.580 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So, Rockswell. 15 \ 00:01:55.580 --> 00:01:56.280 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: Rocks, well… 16 \ 00:01:56.280 --> 00:01:58.079 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: I'm in Colchester. 17 \ 00:01:58.080 --> 00:02:03.240 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: Right, yes, you are, Stanway. Yeah, so in Rockhole, which is near Chelmsford. 18 \ 00:02:03.910 --> 00:02:08.590 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yeah, okay, cool, yeah, I'm familiar with Stanway. Not so much with Roxile, but… 19 \ 00:02:08.590 --> 00:02:09.560 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: Yeah, Rachel. 20 \ 00:02:10.130 --> 00:02:10.940 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yeah, sure. 21 \ 00:02:12.300 --> 00:02:17.859 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: It does. I'll do a bit of housekeeping in a moment. We've just been joined by Martin. Hi, Martin. 22 \ 00:02:17.860 --> 00:02:18.920 \ Martyn Hart: Hello? 23 \ 00:02:19.390 --> 00:02:19.990 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Hi. 24 \ 00:02:21.190 --> 00:02:28.910 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So, we're just waiting for… well, we'll give it another 4 minutes before we actually start, just to allow people time to join. 25 \ 00:02:29.490 --> 00:02:33.620 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Well, I was wondering, could you… could everyone, perhaps. 26 \ 00:02:33.800 --> 00:02:39.389 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Add to their name, and just put where you're from, the parish… the parish council. 27 \ 00:02:39.670 --> 00:02:44.370 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: You should be able to look at your profile, and there's three dots and a rename option. 28 \ 00:02:47.510 --> 00:02:48.910 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: Hmm, very nice. 29 \ 00:02:50.070 --> 00:02:51.029 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Hi, Jaren. Hi. 30 \ 00:02:51.030 --> 00:02:51.560 \ Joanne Knowles - Horsham: Bye. 31 \ 00:02:52.390 --> 00:02:54.349 \ Joanne Knowles - Horsham: Hope you can hear me, is the mic on? 32 \ 00:02:54.640 --> 00:03:10.770 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yes, we can. I'm Jules, I'll be facilitating today's session, and we're just giving it another 3 minutes for late arrivals, see if anyone else is going to join. We've had about 12 people book on, and we've got 7 so far, so I'm hoping… hoping we'll get a few other joiners. 33 \ 00:03:11.200 --> 00:03:18.749 \ Joanne Knowles - Horsham: I might have to duck out for 10 minutes. I've got, a hospital phoning me, and you don't get to see me when that happens, so. 34 \ 00:03:18.750 --> 00:03:19.550 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Oh, that's fine. 35 \ 00:03:19.550 --> 00:03:20.040 \ Joanne Knowles - Horsham: Yep. 36 \ 00:03:20.040 --> 00:03:31.930 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Complete… completely flexible. The session's being recorded. We've got an AI transcript. If anyone doesn't want to be recorded, please do put your hand up or, turn your camera off. 37 \ 00:03:32.820 --> 00:03:33.889 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Let me know. 38 \ 00:03:34.950 --> 00:03:38.920 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And Joanne, we've just… I've just asked people if they could perhaps rename 39 \ 00:03:40.080 --> 00:03:44.470 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Oh, I'll wait for LM to join before I do the housekeeping. 40 \ 00:03:46.340 --> 00:03:47.769 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: I don't know how to do that. 41 \ 00:03:48.130 --> 00:03:50.039 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: Nor do I. Nor do I. 42 \ 00:03:50.230 --> 00:03:56.240 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Okay, that's fine, it's not… it's not mandatory, it's helpful, so don't, don't worry too much, Judith or Ian. 43 \ 00:03:56.510 --> 00:03:57.159 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Well. 44 \ 00:03:57.160 --> 00:04:00.649 \ Joanne Knowles - Horsham: you wanted us to do, Jules? How… in which way do you want us to rename? 45 \ 00:04:00.650 --> 00:04:03.750 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So, just to add to where you're from, the area. 46 \ 00:04:03.750 --> 00:04:04.320 \ Joanne Knowles - Horsham: Oh, I see. 47 \ 00:04:04.320 --> 00:04:11.949 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: It's very helpful for follow-ups. There, if you hover over your screen, you should, or your camera view, you should see 48 \ 00:04:12.100 --> 00:04:15.340 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Two blue buttons appear, a mute, and three dots. 49 \ 00:04:15.340 --> 00:04:16.450 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: There, I've done it. 50 \ 00:04:16.829 --> 00:04:17.419 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yeah. 51 \ 00:04:18.539 --> 00:04:26.019 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Oh, fantastic! Yeah, look at that, Judith. So, three dots, and if you click on the three dots, there's a rename option, and you can add the area that you're from. 52 \ 00:04:26.890 --> 00:04:30.859 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: Not the three dots at the bottom, it's the three dots at the top right-hand side of your picture. 53 \ 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:31.999 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yes, that's right. 54 \ 00:04:33.820 --> 00:04:34.650 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Thank you. 55 \ 00:04:36.260 --> 00:04:43.609 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So it's really helpful just for future reference, for us to understand who's come, geographically, where everyone is, this kind of thing. 56 \ 00:04:44.950 --> 00:04:47.379 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So we've got one more minute. 57 \ 00:04:47.720 --> 00:04:51.449 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And I will, do a brief round of intros. 58 \ 00:04:57.960 --> 00:04:59.510 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And LM. 59 \ 00:05:01.030 --> 00:05:05.699 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: You can see you're not muted, so hopefully you can hear us okay. Oh, there we go, fantastic. Hi there. 60 \ 00:05:05.700 --> 00:05:06.550 \ Lavinia Tendring -Essex: Aye. 61 \ 00:05:07.230 --> 00:05:12.870 \ Lavinia Tendring -Essex: I'm on the phone, so I can't find how to rename myself. 62 \ 00:05:13.390 --> 00:05:17.570 \ Lavinia Tendring -Essex: Thundering, which is asexed. 63 \ 00:05:17.990 --> 00:05:19.090 \ Lavinia Tendring -Essex: Placton. 64 \ 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:22.340 \ Lavinia Tendring -Essex: Are you frozen. 65 \ 00:05:23.200 --> 00:05:24.339 \ Joanne Knowles - Horsham: We can hear you. 66 \ 00:05:24.820 --> 00:05:29.750 \ Lavinia Tendring -Essex: Yeah, so I'm… I'm intending this to a council, which is part of Essex County Council. 67 \ 00:05:30.490 --> 00:05:31.280 \ Joanne Knowles - Horsham: Great. 68 \ 00:05:33.150 --> 00:05:34.489 \ Lavinia Tendring -Essex: Lovely meeting you. 69 \ 00:05:35.250 --> 00:05:37.540 \ Joanne Knowles - Horsham: Andrew, what does the L stand for? 70 \ 00:05:38.060 --> 00:05:38.910 \ Lavinia Tendring -Essex: Lavinia. 71 \ 00:05:38.910 --> 00:05:39.650 \ Joanne Knowles - Horsham: Lavinia. 72 \ 00:05:39.650 --> 00:05:41.340 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: That's a nice name. 73 \ 00:05:41.340 --> 00:05:50.879 \ Lavinia Tendring -Essex: Thank you. Apparently, she was the first Princess of Rome when Rome got founded on the seven hills, she was the first Princess of Rome. 74 \ 00:05:51.250 --> 00:05:53.769 \ Joanne Knowles - Horsham: I'll research this. 75 \ 00:08:30.950 --> 00:08:33.089 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: I can't receive Jules. 76 \ 00:08:37.690 --> 00:08:38.820 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: He's dipped out. 77 \ 00:08:39.610 --> 00:08:45.779 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: Yeah, looks like we've lost him. He sometimes has a hard time with the connection where he is, I'm just looking to see. 78 \ 00:08:46.350 --> 00:08:48.739 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: He needs some support. 79 \ 00:08:58.850 --> 00:09:00.430 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: Okay. 80 \ 00:09:00.760 --> 00:09:10.429 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: I tell you what, while Jules is getting on with what he's getting on with, I'm sure he'll be back momentarily. I'm just going to kick us off with some introductions, so… 81 \ 00:09:10.430 --> 00:09:25.520 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: Just to, introduce myself briefly, I'm Bonnie Williams, I'm, I work with Jules at Community Climate Action, and we are working in, collaboration with Essex County Council to bring the Power Programme, 82 \ 00:09:26.070 --> 00:09:50.409 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: to all of you, hopefully. So essentially what we're doing… what we usually do at Community Climate Action is, exactly this, but often under a broader remit. So energy is… which is what we're talking about today, is one of, a number of different areas that we usually really cover, and Community Climate Action brings workshops to community groups and helps people really to create and enact their own plans. 83 \ 00:09:50.720 --> 00:10:03.019 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: So, as I mentioned, I'm Bonnie, but, I would absolutely love to go around the room with each of you and just hear very briefly where you're from and whether you've got a specific energy project in mind. 84 \ 00:10:03.520 --> 00:10:15.540 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: I've got you first on my screen, Ian. If you would mind going… going first, and when you finish, just pick somebody to hand over to, and hopefully by the end, we'll have got to everybody. Is that okay? 85 \ 00:10:15.540 --> 00:10:20.689 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: Yeah, absolutely fine. Great. My name's Ian, 86 \ 00:10:21.540 --> 00:10:28.770 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: Background of 20 years in commercial property management, got my redundant. 87 \ 00:10:29.450 --> 00:10:35.989 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: set up my own business, 11 years doing energy-related work. 88 \ 00:10:36.110 --> 00:10:38.880 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: Of all sorts. 89 \ 00:10:38.990 --> 00:10:48.490 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: Also heavily involved in looking at environmental impacts of buildings, from a professional… point of view. 90 \ 00:10:48.780 --> 00:10:52.209 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: Always had a green agenda in my own head. 91 \ 00:10:52.460 --> 00:10:56.110 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: And my claim to fame… 92 \ 00:10:56.260 --> 00:11:01.520 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: So, it may be, is that many, many, many years ago. 93 \ 00:11:01.690 --> 00:11:06.519 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: I worked for a company that was involved in toxic waste disposal. 94 \ 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:13.520 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: And, we had the contract to go and do some work for… porting down. 95 \ 00:11:14.310 --> 00:11:18.359 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: So you can imagine how toxic and dangerous that might have been. 96 \ 00:11:18.640 --> 00:11:22.760 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: So, Ian, have you got a specific energy project in mind that you're looking at now? 97 \ 00:11:22.760 --> 00:11:27.640 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: I haven't. I'm hopefully subject to being appointed. 98 \ 00:11:27.760 --> 00:11:33.989 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: I'm, I'm hopefully join… about to join… Stoneway Parish Council. 99 \ 00:11:34.210 --> 00:11:34.600 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: Right. 100 \ 00:11:34.600 --> 00:11:36.020 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: As a counsellor. 101 \ 00:11:36.270 --> 00:11:40.659 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: And with, very much, an environmental. 102 \ 00:11:40.980 --> 00:11:44.980 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: Green stroke energy agenda, amongst other things. 103 \ 00:11:45.240 --> 00:11:45.879 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: Brilliant, okay. 104 \ 00:11:45.880 --> 00:11:51.500 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: So that's my passion, and I believe that they have, several projects ongoing. 105 \ 00:11:51.890 --> 00:11:52.410 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: Right. 106 \ 00:11:52.410 --> 00:11:54.389 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: I look forward to contributing to that. 107 \ 00:11:54.390 --> 00:11:59.699 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: They're gonna get new manpower. Okay, could I ask you to choose someone to hand over, please? Thank you very much. 108 \ 00:11:59.700 --> 00:12:06.519 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: I'm going to ask Joanne to introduce herself, because I actually have a 109 \ 00:12:06.650 --> 00:12:10.899 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: a link to Horsham, as it happens. There you go. 110 \ 00:12:11.220 --> 00:12:12.469 \ Joanne Knowles - Horsham: Right. Cheer out. 111 \ 00:12:13.350 --> 00:12:20.880 \ Joanne Knowles - Horsham: Thank you. We look forward to finding out what your link is with Horsham, Ian. I'm a… currently a district 112 \ 00:12:21.310 --> 00:12:31.919 \ Joanne Knowles - Horsham: councillor in Horsham, but we are moving to a unitary in a couple of years' time, and, I imagine I'll end up as a parish councillor in Calfold. 113 \ 00:12:31.920 --> 00:12:42.499 \ Joanne Knowles - Horsham: which is the village where I live. We're on the grid, and we have Rampion 2s, landing, in the village, and we also have… 114 \ 00:12:42.520 --> 00:12:54.160 \ Joanne Knowles - Horsham: a number of solar farms going up in the area, and I think we've missed a trick, and we should be doing it for ourselves, as they say. So, I'm keen to find out more about how that might happen. 115 \ 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:55.290 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: Brilliant! 116 \ 00:12:55.830 --> 00:13:01.070 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: Excellent aspirations, I love that. Thank you so much. Can you hand over to somebody else, please, Joanne? 117 \ 00:13:01.070 --> 00:13:03.459 \ Joanne Knowles - Horsham: Absolutely. Martin, you're next on my screen. 118 \ 00:13:04.920 --> 00:13:21.509 \ Martyn Hart: Gosh, thank you, Joe. And I'm Martin Hart. I'm in Engate Zone in Essex, and I'm on Ingate Zone Farling Parish Council. And we're trying to establish a community energy group. We have a public building, which we're going to plaster solar cells all over. 119 \ 00:13:21.510 --> 00:13:38.089 \ Martyn Hart: And hopefully we're getting some money out of, not just the Paris Council, but the Boris Council and the County Council to do all this. And then, hopefully, we will be able to provide energy to our community at lower rates than they pay now. 120 \ 00:13:38.090 --> 00:13:42.130 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: Bravo, let's hope that gets off the ground. Excellent, thanks, Martin. 121 \ 00:13:42.330 --> 00:13:43.690 \ Martyn Hart: I'll pick Judith. 122 \ 00:13:43.690 --> 00:14:02.959 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: because she's next on my screen, and Roxwell's not too far away from me. No, it's not. And Roxwell… I'm the secretary of the Village Hall in Roxwell, and we have an enormous south-facing roof, which is begging for solar panels. And I've got solar panels myself at home, and so I know just how much power you can get on the south-facing roof. 123 \ 00:14:03.180 --> 00:14:16.169 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: And mine is quite an old scheme, but I'm looking for funding, really, for this. We've got… we've got room for solar panels, we've got a 32-year-old boiler, oil boiler, which needs 124 \ 00:14:16.260 --> 00:14:33.139 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: it needs to be replaced, I'm sure, very shortly. It's not… and it's not very efficient. And we could do with some insulation inside the roof, between the beams. It's a nice tall roof. It's a lovely 1960s building, but the insulation is poor. 125 \ 00:14:33.550 --> 00:14:40.999 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: So those three projects, the insulation, the solar panels, and the, air source heat pump would be my choice. 126 \ 00:14:42.500 --> 00:14:50.150 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: I'd really like to know if there are any grants available, because so far, all the energy companies are just directed towards homes. 127 \ 00:14:50.600 --> 00:14:56.780 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: Yes, it's a challenge. We will come to that in a bit, so thank you so much for your intro. Do you want to pass on to someone, Judith? 128 \ 00:14:57.050 --> 00:14:59.709 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: Yes, could I ask Christopher Blomly, please? 129 \ 00:15:00.250 --> 00:15:01.139 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: Hi, Chris! 130 \ 00:15:06.800 --> 00:15:07.949 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: He's on mute. 131 \ 00:15:08.090 --> 00:15:10.390 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: Christopher, you're on mute, we can't hear you. 132 \ 00:15:11.810 --> 00:15:12.989 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: There we go. 133 \ 00:15:12.990 --> 00:15:16.329 \ Christopher Blomeley: Yeah, I'm working off a phone, so it's a little bit slow. 134 \ 00:15:16.890 --> 00:15:24.450 \ Christopher Blomeley: Okay, so I'm here as a parish councillor, town councillor with Wyvernhoe in Colchester. 135 \ 00:15:24.560 --> 00:15:30.520 \ Christopher Blomeley: But I'm also one of the directors of Community Energy Colchester. 136 \ 00:15:30.740 --> 00:15:49.049 \ Christopher Blomeley: And we have ongoing 3 projects. We've got a Stage 1 application in for some ground source heating for two primary schools. Another project, we have with, solar on Colchester Hospital roof. 137 \ 00:15:49.420 --> 00:16:05.250 \ Christopher Blomeley: And then, interestingly, with Stanway, and working quite close with Donna, we've got, ongoing conversation with Tarmac with a view to using some of the, the old landfill sites. Thank you. 138 \ 00:16:05.990 --> 00:16:08.949 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: That would be so cool if you can get that off the ground, that one, wouldn't it? 139 \ 00:16:09.180 --> 00:16:10.689 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: Thank you, Christopher. 140 \ 00:16:11.070 --> 00:16:15.930 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: Okay, if you want to nominate somebody else, just looking to see if we've still got… 141 \ 00:16:16.290 --> 00:16:17.179 \ Christopher Blomeley: The venue. 142 \ 00:16:23.110 --> 00:16:25.220 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: Labinho, you're still on mute. 143 \ 00:16:30.670 --> 00:16:31.270 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: None. 144 \ 00:16:31.640 --> 00:16:32.549 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: There we go. 145 \ 00:16:32.790 --> 00:16:33.600 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: Right? 146 \ 00:16:37.690 --> 00:16:44.840 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: Okay… Should we come back to you, Labinha? So, let's choose somebody else. Who else? 147 \ 00:16:45.660 --> 00:16:48.599 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: I think we haven't heard from Jane. 148 \ 00:16:50.570 --> 00:16:51.889 \ Jane Holloway: Yeah, that's me. 149 \ 00:16:51.890 --> 00:16:53.229 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: Jane, do you want to jump in? 150 \ 00:16:53.730 --> 00:16:55.670 \ Jane Holloway: Yeah, I… can you all hear me? 151 \ 00:16:55.670 --> 00:16:56.200 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: Yep. 152 \ 00:16:56.500 --> 00:17:00.269 \ Jane Holloway: Oh, good. I'm the current chairman of Crystal Parish Council. 153 \ 00:17:00.790 --> 00:17:06.329 \ Jane Holloway: I mean, I'm… Listening in on this for any ideas, inspiration. 154 \ 00:17:07.300 --> 00:17:10.079 \ Jane Holloway: To see what else we can do. 155 \ 00:17:11.369 --> 00:17:13.869 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: Jane, could you just repeat which council? 156 \ 00:17:13.869 --> 00:17:14.739 \ Jane Holloway: Crystal. 157 \ 00:17:14.930 --> 00:17:15.890 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: Crystal. 158 \ 00:17:15.890 --> 00:17:20.429 \ Jane Holloway: Crystal, which is… Probably the furthest northwest Essex you can get. 159 \ 00:17:21.650 --> 00:17:24.490 \ Jane Holloway: Because we're right on the Cambridgeshire-Hertfordshire boundary. 160 \ 00:17:24.720 --> 00:17:25.579 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: Great. 161 \ 00:17:26.040 --> 00:17:33.509 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: Okay, and if you could hand over to somebody else, see if we've still got… I think just… 162 \ 00:17:33.510 --> 00:17:34.540 \ Jane Holloway: Who's left? 163 \ 00:17:34.540 --> 00:17:36.120 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: Vita is left. 164 \ 00:17:36.480 --> 00:17:39.040 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: Yeah. Lavinia. Lavinia, are you unmuted now? 165 \ 00:17:39.040 --> 00:17:48.459 \ Lavinia Tendring -Essex: No, I'm unmuted, I do apologize. I was trying to unmute. One, my fingers are probably very cold, and two, messages kept popping up on my screen, so I couldn't get to… 166 \ 00:17:49.090 --> 00:17:50.510 \ Lavinia Tendring -Essex: The mute button. 167 \ 00:17:50.510 --> 00:17:52.110 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: Fire away now. 168 \ 00:17:52.690 --> 00:17:53.940 \ Lavinia Tendring -Essex: I'm here now. 169 \ 00:17:54.180 --> 00:18:06.669 \ Lavinia Tendring -Essex: My name's Ravinia Mechin, I work for Tendering District Council on the Fure Poverty Officer. We have recently formed a community energy group called Tendering Community Energy. 170 \ 00:18:06.720 --> 00:18:15.179 \ Lavinia Tendring -Essex: We have a couple of projects in the agreement stage, because we are quite new, just a couple of months. 171 \ 00:18:15.240 --> 00:18:19.159 \ Lavinia Tendring -Essex: You know, one would be a one-acre solar panel. 172 \ 00:18:19.250 --> 00:18:27.710 \ Lavinia Tendring -Essex: Plus possibly some, vertical axis, wind turbines. And the other one would be a church roof. 173 \ 00:18:28.260 --> 00:18:36.449 \ Lavinia Tendring -Essex: So these are the ones that we are speaking with, with the owners of the properties to actually install. 174 \ 00:18:36.670 --> 00:18:38.350 \ Lavinia Tendring -Essex: Panels on… on them. 175 \ 00:18:38.350 --> 00:18:40.000 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: Exciting! Excellent. 176 \ 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:40.450 \ Lavinia Tendring -Essex: Right. 177 \ 00:18:40.450 --> 00:18:53.010 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: And Vita. Vita's saying she's sorry she's introducing herself via the chat. Hope we can see. Yes, we can. Hello and thank you. And I think the only person left probably is Omar, unless I've missed somebody else. 178 \ 00:18:56.180 --> 00:18:58.290 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: Omar, you're on mute, do you want to say hi? 179 \ 00:18:58.620 --> 00:19:10.880 \ Omar Al-Amin: Hi, everyone, Omar from Essex County Council, working in partnership with Community Climate Action to put on these, power workshops. 180 \ 00:19:11.010 --> 00:19:19.589 \ Omar Al-Amin: My role at ECC is within the energy and low carbon team, and as a team, we are looking to 181 \ 00:19:19.710 --> 00:19:22.060 \ Omar Al-Amin: Kind of… 182 \ 00:19:22.780 --> 00:19:36.969 \ Omar Al-Amin: strategically plan, our energy future for Essex that includes renewable energy generation, as well as energy demand reduction, in terms of retrofit. My specific role and remit within that is to support 183 \ 00:19:37.020 --> 00:19:50.940 \ Omar Al-Amin: The community energy sector, and kind of power workshops are one of the ways that we are, yeah, trying to engage local communities and support them to consider their green energy futures. 184 \ 00:19:51.480 --> 00:20:01.320 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: Brilliant. Wow, what a cool bunch of people in the room. Jules, I just took over and did some intros while you weren't here for a minute, but I will hand back to you now, you are here. 185 \ 00:20:01.320 --> 00:20:04.289 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yes, thanks so much. I've just moved, and… 186 \ 00:20:04.520 --> 00:20:16.239 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: My router's had a critical failure, apparently. I've been testing it relentlessly and have brilliant speeds, up to 100MB, but it's now not… now not functioning, so I'm just connecting through my phone, so hopefully that's gonna be okay. 187 \ 00:20:16.460 --> 00:20:17.609 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: Seems okay for now, so let'. 188 \ 00:20:17.610 --> 00:20:36.810 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yeah, it seems okay, so fingers crossed. Bonnie's here, who's one of my… who's the co-founder of Community Climate Action and one of my co-facilitators, so if I do drop off, for whatever reason, if computer says no, you're in safe hands with Bonnie as well. So, and I mostly caught, those introductions, so it's fabulous to have 189 \ 00:20:36.990 --> 00:20:54.630 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: a couple of community energy companies here, and I'm just going to show a short presentation, a little bit about Community Clon Action, a little bit about the Power Program, and then we can kind of go to Q\&A and see, you know, see what your thoughts are, and who might like to join. 190 \ 00:20:55.580 --> 00:21:00.820 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So… Let's, put this on. 191 \ 00:21:02.750 --> 00:21:05.590 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And then… share my screen… 192 \ 00:21:12.670 --> 00:21:17.890 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: They share sound as well, might have a little video if it works. If not, Bonnie, I'm sure Bonnie can say. 193 \ 00:21:18.140 --> 00:21:21.580 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So, hopefully you can see my screen. 194 \ 00:21:21.770 --> 00:21:22.310 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: Yep. 195 \ 00:21:22.600 --> 00:21:24.989 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yeah, so we're Community Climate Action. 196 \ 00:21:25.590 --> 00:21:32.619 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And we help communities write and then enact their Community Climate Action Plan. 197 \ 00:21:33.580 --> 00:21:43.900 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And that's often, An holistic approach, or it's a holistic approach on food, energy, transport, housing, and biodiversity. 198 \ 00:21:44.170 --> 00:21:58.539 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: But in particular, we're talking about energy here, and the support, the marvellous support, and the ambition and aspirations of, Essex County Council and their low-carbon team, to see how we can generate energy 199 \ 00:21:58.690 --> 00:22:01.380 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Within our communities. 200 \ 00:22:01.740 --> 00:22:10.520 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So, my contact details are on screen, and our website, should you want to get in touch, so that's jules at communityclimateaction.uk. 201 \ 00:22:10.900 --> 00:22:16.689 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And our website is, [www.communityclimateaction.uk](http://www.communityclimateaction.uk). 202 \ 00:22:18.070 --> 00:22:23.800 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And some of you may be here because we've, sent out invitations to. 203 \ 00:22:24.030 --> 00:22:36.480 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: all town and parish councils in Essex via the Essex Association of Local Councils, and also via the Rural Community Council of Essex, so we're really pleased to be working with this in conjunction with Essex County Council. 204 \ 00:22:36.780 --> 00:22:49.690 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: I also do some work for the, with the SLCC, for their, Are You Prepared for Net Zero Summit, which is really about funding. So we'll come on to that, because the million dollar question. 205 \ 00:22:49.890 --> 00:22:51.940 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Where… show us the money. 206 \ 00:22:53.470 --> 00:22:57.140 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So this is a power program. 207 \ 00:22:57.380 --> 00:23:05.159 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Developed in conjunction with Essex County Council to support communities who want to consider community renewable energy. 208 \ 00:23:05.570 --> 00:23:09.350 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And power is planning our way to energy resilience. 209 \ 00:23:10.750 --> 00:23:15.180 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: We're, as I say, we're supported by Essex County Council. 210 \ 00:23:15.970 --> 00:23:18.740 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And I'm just gonna talk a little bit about the climate. 211 \ 00:23:19.700 --> 00:23:23.120 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So, we've all seen the pictures of melting ice caps. 212 \ 00:23:23.490 --> 00:23:35.079 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Co2 is just going through the roof, literally and figuratively. You know, we're up to 430 parts per million, I think. And safety is 350. 213 \ 00:23:35.280 --> 00:23:39.710 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: You know, we're smashing through our 1.5 degrees safe upper limit. 214 \ 00:23:40.690 --> 00:23:46.709 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: We're all suffering with flooding, generally. I know that's a particular problem where I am in Norfolk and Suffolk. 215 \ 00:23:46.930 --> 00:23:48.789 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And elsewhere in the country. 216 \ 00:23:48.990 --> 00:24:07.989 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Extreme precipitation in short spaces of time. We had record wildfires this year in England and the UK, and I would rather my emergency services were available to help me in a, you know, in a real emergency, rather than dealing with climate-related impacts. And we've had a huge drought. 217 \ 00:24:08.210 --> 00:24:16.709 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And you wouldn't really, you know, it seems a long way away, the wildfires and the drought, because now it's winter, flooding season, and it's cold and wet. 218 \ 00:24:16.950 --> 00:24:21.969 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: But even with rain, we're really suffering with water scarcity in East Anglia. 219 \ 00:24:25.960 --> 00:24:29.870 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So, how high will global heating go? 220 \ 00:24:30.410 --> 00:24:41.059 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: About 70% of science… 77% of scientists expect a rise of at least 2.5 degrees. Some are projecting a rise of 2 degrees by 2030, even. 221 \ 00:24:41.470 --> 00:24:47.429 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And that 1.5 degrees that was agreed at the Paris, in Paris, the Paris Agreement. 222 \ 00:24:47.520 --> 00:25:04.629 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: is the safe upper limit. It's not a target, and we're smashing through it. So we're going beyond, where humans have ever existed throughout the Holocene into uncharted, unsafe territory. So we've really got to see what we can do to mitigate the effects and adapt. 223 \ 00:25:07.190 --> 00:25:10.309 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And what… the impacts, we can just kind of see. 224 \ 00:25:10.420 --> 00:25:18.750 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: you know, we can see it around us. Last year, it was huge amounts of rain and flooding, extreme precipitation, which caused… 225 \ 00:25:18.750 --> 00:25:21.709 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: Fears of harvest catastrophes for our farmers. 226 \ 00:25:22.960 --> 00:25:27.210 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Also threatened our food security, which is super important. 227 \ 00:25:29.270 --> 00:25:38.770 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: because we've all got to eat 3 times a day, we need to make friends with our farmers. So, when food security is threatened by extreme weather, in this case flooding or drought, we really need to take action. 228 \ 00:25:38.970 --> 00:25:43.059 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Last year, through flooding, the industry lost around a billionth. 229 \ 00:25:43.400 --> 00:25:48.840 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: In revenue this year, it lost… it similarly lost around a billion from drought. 230 \ 00:25:49.110 --> 00:25:57.230 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And in particular, I'm upset about that, because it really affected the hops harvest, which means the price of beer is going up. 231 \ 00:25:58.020 --> 00:26:16.959 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: You know, so those kind of… those kind of impacts, the price of butter is 20% higher, the price of cauliflower has tripled, these kind of things hit the poorest hardest, and there's sometimes unseen impacts, but what we can expect, and what we're seeing in shops is, empty shelves, you know, where, 232 \ 00:26:17.190 --> 00:26:21.990 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: I don't know if anyone remembers the great tomato shortage of 2023. 233 \ 00:26:22.090 --> 00:26:40.400 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: But we had really severe drought in, Spain and Morocco, where our tomatoes are grown, and those that they did grow went to the… straight into the EU, and not to the UK, so we couldn't… there were no tomatoes available. And so those are the kind of impacts that we can expect from climate change. 234 \ 00:26:41.210 --> 00:26:44.300 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And the United Nations have declared Code Red. 235 \ 00:26:44.970 --> 00:26:46.470 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: for humanity. 236 \ 00:26:47.500 --> 00:26:51.359 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So I'm just gonna pause there a moment, and let that sink in. 237 \ 00:26:54.460 --> 00:26:56.939 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Code red for humanity. 238 \ 00:26:58.820 --> 00:27:03.070 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: But it's not all bad news, so we can do something about this, and that's why we're all here today. 239 \ 00:27:03.310 --> 00:27:12.739 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And, this slide is about a major US state that achieved a critical milestone for two weeks, and powered itself entirely with renewable energy. 240 \ 00:27:13.070 --> 00:27:24.929 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Now, this slide's quite old, and actually, they went on a lot longer than 2 weeks, and that was California. And they're the largest, or the 4th largest economy in the world. So if California can do it, we can do it. 241 \ 00:27:25.430 --> 00:27:37.069 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Equally, China is making great strides, and their carbon emissions have started to decrease, which is great news, and they are leading the world in the installation of renewable energy. 242 \ 00:27:37.870 --> 00:27:48.110 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: A project I'm working on personally in, in Norfolk, just on the Norfolk-Suffolk border, is 50 acres of agri-voltaics and 3 wind turbines. 243 \ 00:27:48.430 --> 00:28:03.440 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: That's an 11 megawatt generation project that would power around 6,000 homes. And with solar on stilts, as you can see in the picture, that means we still have productive horticultural and agricultural use of the land to be able to cultivate food. 244 \ 00:28:03.690 --> 00:28:09.439 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So we don't sacrifice, food security for energy, which is really important. 245 \ 00:28:10.850 --> 00:28:19.439 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And that project is being brought forward with funding from the government's Community Energy Fund, so with the benefits of $40,000 in feasibility funding. 246 \ 00:28:19.630 --> 00:28:25.939 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And, subject to it being feasible, we'll then go on to Stage 2, which is up to $100,000 for planning. 247 \ 00:28:26.410 --> 00:28:30.940 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: And the critical thing here, because we're facing, or we're seeing. 248 \ 00:28:30.940 --> 00:28:49.079 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: tens of thousands of acres under planning for solar farms in, East Anglia, particularly Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, and I'm sure it's similar in Essex, where large private capital is coming in, and particularly because we're having the Norwich to Tilbury Pylon 249 \ 00:28:49.270 --> 00:29:00.139 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: route to, for landfall of energy from the North Sea, wind turb, offshore wind. It's the ideal route for substations and onward power generation. 250 \ 00:29:00.700 --> 00:29:07.530 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: The challenge we have with that is we've got lots of objections from communities that don't want to be surrounded by solar. 251 \ 00:29:07.730 --> 00:29:12.340 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Which I can understand. And there's no clear community benefit, so… 252 \ 00:29:12.450 --> 00:29:28.989 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: It's much better if we look at, I believe, distributed networks of production, and smaller scale production, and the power used locally. So we'll come on to talk about how that can be managed, but with a clear community benefit. So if we can save our residents a bit of money. 253 \ 00:29:29.360 --> 00:29:41.029 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: If we have a surplus that we can reinvest in nature-based recovery, and also perhaps a precept to our local town and parish councils that are involved, what's not to like? 254 \ 00:29:41.210 --> 00:29:46.439 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: It's certainly a better model than, our energy suppliers making record profits. 255 \ 00:29:49.720 --> 00:29:55.760 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So, we've got maps available, for the, for the UKPN 256 \ 00:29:55.950 --> 00:30:02.929 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: District Network Operator region, which we're in, which, shows sites suitable for wind turbines. 257 \ 00:30:03.210 --> 00:30:12.689 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And that's what we did when we, selected our site. We used some of this data. I'll come on to talk about that process in a little bit. 258 \ 00:30:13.750 --> 00:30:16.469 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So, where we are, and our theory of change, so… 259 \ 00:30:16.600 --> 00:30:19.079 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Everyone in this room is an innovator. 260 \ 00:30:19.670 --> 00:30:38.809 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So we're on the left-hand side of this curve, and this curve is used generally when there's any new product innovation or launch, similar to an iPhone. There'll be the people that really, really want a new bit of technology, an iPhone, and they're the 2.5%, and they'll go out and buy it. And then when a few of the 261 \ 00:30:38.830 --> 00:30:46.260 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Bugs are ironed out, the early adopters come along, and they get theirs. And then the early majority… Follow. 262 \ 00:30:46.930 --> 00:30:52.130 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So what we're concerned about here in terms of garnering capacity is 263 \ 00:30:52.550 --> 00:31:09.109 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: those 2.5% of innovators. Who wants… who wants to start something, and lead… and lead by example? And we're lucky enough to have some really good examples, both in Essex and elsewhere, and so we're garnering momentum with the early adopters. 264 \ 00:31:10.650 --> 00:31:25.030 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And as I say, one thing I do do is, present to SLCC, for instance, in terms of funding and finance. So, how can we access patient capital to help us shape our environment? And energy lends itself to that really well. 265 \ 00:31:25.620 --> 00:31:32.370 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Because it costs money. So, if we're generating energy, we produce a revenue, 266 \ 00:31:32.930 --> 00:31:51.339 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: as an energy generator, it can be hard to make a profit, but that's something we can… we can look at for particular, projects. And we can increase the likelihood of that by direct supply to institutions, schools, using on-site village halls, and get a better… better bang for our buck. 267 \ 00:31:51.660 --> 00:31:53.420 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: And a return on investment. 268 \ 00:31:53.980 --> 00:31:55.750 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So, in terms of funding. 269 \ 00:31:55.750 --> 00:31:56.540 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: They… 270 \ 00:31:57.020 --> 00:32:02.200 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: various routes, national lottery, grant funding, district or county council. 271 \ 00:32:02.270 --> 00:32:20.870 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And here we are, you know, because of, investment by Essex County Council in providing services to support the development of community renewable energy in Essex. I mentioned Community Energy Fund, now the GB Fund, for grant funding. 272 \ 00:32:20.910 --> 00:32:36.169 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Community Ownership Fund, which is currently closed, but I anticipate the government launching or relaunching something very similar. They're just launching a community right to buy for community assets, that'll probably come along. And then there are some resilience funds for energy. 273 \ 00:32:36.970 --> 00:32:37.879 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: just communicated with… 274 \ 00:32:37.880 --> 00:32:53.569 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Larger scale, there's things like community municipal investment bonds, which, are issued by local authority, and that allows pension funds to buy those bonds, and then the authority can invest that money in revenue-generating activities. 275 \ 00:32:54.480 --> 00:32:59.230 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: There's also things like SIPS and SAS, so self… that's a self-invested personal pension. 276 \ 00:32:59.430 --> 00:33:04.070 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: or a self-administered scheme, and I won't go into too much detail today. 277 \ 00:33:04.180 --> 00:33:11.619 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: But that's how we can each individually move our pensions and invest in community shares for renewable energy. 278 \ 00:33:12.620 --> 00:33:23.610 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: The next one is Community Shares, which is withdrawable share capital, and there's clear routes to funding and finance via platforms like FX, or cooperatives like Energy For All. 279 \ 00:33:23.680 --> 00:33:35.579 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: who will do a share offer, and go out to a database. I think Energy For Alls is around $20,000, $20,000, $30,000. FX is about 40,000. And that's… that's a traditional way for raising 280 \ 00:33:35.660 --> 00:33:39.340 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Capital finance for projects via community shares. 281 \ 00:33:39.870 --> 00:33:54.360 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And we can also support that. I'm also a parish councillor in Suffolk, in Hopton come Nestle, which is a very small rural village. But even as a tiny parish, we can borrow up to half a million pounds via the Public Works Loan Board. 282 \ 00:33:54.620 --> 00:33:57.439 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: For infrastructure development. 283 \ 00:33:57.660 --> 00:34:02.080 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And that lends itself, again, really well to… Funding… 284 \ 00:34:02.410 --> 00:34:07.399 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: This kind of project, because there's clear revenue and clear… clear payback on that. 285 \ 00:34:07.810 --> 00:34:20.479 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And of course, you know, half a million isn't a lot, but we've clustered with 7 local parishes, so between us, we've potentially got access to $3.5 million in development capital, which can go a long way. 286 \ 00:34:20.800 --> 00:34:27.429 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And then that can be refinanced once the project's launched, repaid, the loan. 287 \ 00:34:27.929 --> 00:34:38.280 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And, you know, the project is then on its feet. So all of this together is kind of blended finance, is the term, with significant community benefit. 288 \ 00:34:38.780 --> 00:34:42.250 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And our project in, East Anglia. 289 \ 00:34:42.409 --> 00:34:48.879 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: We'll deliver tens of thousands in community… or in surplus, which can be used for community benefit. 290 \ 00:34:48.889 --> 00:34:50.279 \ Audio shared by Joolz | Community Climate Action: Awesome. 291 \ 00:34:50.280 --> 00:34:53.310 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: feasibility. We're having early-stage conversations about 292 \ 00:34:53.440 --> 00:34:55.819 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Nature-based recovery, how we fund that. 293 \ 00:34:56.020 --> 00:35:08.880 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Talking to our local, group, the Little Ooze Headwaters Project, and also exploring how we might distribute some of that effectively as a precept to the town and parish councils involved. 294 \ 00:35:08.980 --> 00:35:12.049 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And it might not be a lot, but say it's £1,000 a year. 295 \ 00:35:12.070 --> 00:35:21.090 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Over a decade, £10,000 is really helpful to contribute to reserves, and what I've put on the slide there, as you can probably see, is things like traffic calming. 296 \ 00:35:21.090 --> 00:35:34.909 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Or VAR and VAS signs. So we've just… we've just had to pay for some new ones from our reserves, for instance, and I think that was about £6,000. And we'd much prefer if that was paid for by our local energy generation. 297 \ 00:35:36.440 --> 00:35:39.539 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So town and parish councils can support 298 \ 00:35:40.170 --> 00:35:59.230 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: community action, community climate action. There's things like allotments in terms of food resilience. We've got a statutory biodiversity duty. So again, if our energy generation is making a contribution to that, that can help with things like measuring and auditing our biodiversity. 299 \ 00:35:59.720 --> 00:36:06.960 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: We've got requirements for emergency planning to dovetail with our Resilience Forum as Community Risk Register. 300 \ 00:36:07.220 --> 00:36:15.049 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: can support funding and finance. So, town and parish councils are uniquely placed to act as a network… networkers and connectors. 301 \ 00:36:15.650 --> 00:36:18.600 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Supporting and facilitating community energy. 302 \ 00:36:20.510 --> 00:36:30.650 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And Professor Tim O'Riordan, who's the chair of Norfolk Association of Local Councils, said there's real scope for Norfolk ALC to explore the lessons being learnt by community climate action. 303 \ 00:36:30.720 --> 00:36:41.080 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: In terms of management, financing, recruitment, and widespread improvement of local livelihoods. And it should be connected to county-based evolution at an early stage. 304 \ 00:36:41.180 --> 00:36:44.040 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And so those are some of the conversations we're having. 305 \ 00:36:44.050 --> 00:36:53.200 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: with, you know, prospective mayoral candidates for Norfolk and Suffolk, and, you know, Essex is going through a similar devolution process. 306 \ 00:36:53.200 --> 00:37:08.040 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And, you know, this is a real opportunity for us and respective town and parish councils, because we'll be more at the coalface with unitary authorities, talking to our residents, to keep that spend and keep those pounds 307 \ 00:37:08.040 --> 00:37:13.250 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Locally and back in the community, providing employment, economic development, and a just transition. 308 \ 00:37:14.240 --> 00:37:19.430 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So, climate change plus growth, Is an existential threat. 309 \ 00:37:20.650 --> 00:37:22.199 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: to our economy. 310 \ 00:37:22.390 --> 00:37:27.430 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Our environment, our security, our happiness, and our way of life. 311 \ 00:37:27.680 --> 00:37:29.990 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And we can choose to ignore this problem. 312 \ 00:37:30.770 --> 00:37:38.490 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: or we can choose to tackle it. So I'm guessing you're all in this room because you think the second option is… second approach is preferable to the first. 313 \ 00:37:38.880 --> 00:37:55.620 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Now, that's a quote from Sir James Bevan, who was Chief Exec of the Environment Agency in 2019. So today, we're inviting you to walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their head in the clouds and their feet on the ground. 314 \ 00:37:55.820 --> 00:38:00.839 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And let their spirit ignite a fire within us to leave this world better than when we found it. 315 \ 00:38:03.820 --> 00:38:08.549 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And so, we've got an offer, and it's for power workshops. 316 \ 00:38:09.200 --> 00:38:11.069 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And I'm just gonna play a short video. 317 \ 00:38:11.910 --> 00:38:13.410 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Hopefully this will work. 318 \ 00:38:16.070 --> 00:38:25.070 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So we can actually… so we can actually have a look, and you can get a taster for what, our workshops are like. 319 \ 00:38:36.930 --> 00:39:01.859 \ Audio shared by Joolz | Community Climate Action: I've founded Community Climate Action because nobody's coming to save us, and so I think it's really important that we gather and build that resilience for the change that's here when facing the climate crisis. Today, we've been in Colchester at first sight, which is amazing, delivering a workshop, trying to help the community to come together around what kinds of action they can take locally to improve energy resilience, really, and to make sure that their community has got what it needs in the face of the changes 320 \ 00:39:01.860 --> 00:39:03.870 \ Audio shared by Joolz | Community Climate Action: climate. Connecting people together. 321 \ 00:39:03.870 --> 00:39:24.880 \ Audio shared by Joolz | Community Climate Action: is a really important starting point, and hopefully we can, yeah, take something forward and build something. Just starting that conversation is the really important thing. Starting that conversation in a pub, at a parish meeting, or something like that, just to get it out in the open. That's what we're all about. It's community climate action happening right now, today. I'm also a cabinet member for environment. 322 \ 00:39:24.960 --> 00:39:38.980 \ Audio shared by Joolz | Community Climate Action: reuse and recycling. One of the things that we do, and we find very important is bringing people together from communities to have a conversation and to start thinking about what their 323 \ 00:39:38.980 --> 00:39:47.510 \ Audio shared by Joolz | Community Climate Action: green energy future will look like. I'm really motivated by trying to get more people involved and trying to sort of get the issues around climate change and 324 \ 00:39:47.510 --> 00:39:55.439 \ Audio shared by Joolz | Community Climate Action: community energy, sort of back out to the community. The idea is that we can share all of this expertise, that they can talk to each other. 325 \ 00:39:55.540 --> 00:40:20.469 \ Audio shared by Joolz | Community Climate Action: And they will be able to gain a lot of knowledge very quickly. When I got here this morning, I didn't feel where we were going with this, or where I was going with this, but I do feel that more so now. I feel actually quite focused, and I feel like I'm going to leave here with something tangible. I think I've got some ideas for going forward, and was also very reassured to learn that in order to be someone who starts the conversation, you don't have to have 326 \ 00:40:20.690 --> 00:40:24.710 \ Audio shared by Joolz | Community Climate Action: all the answers. And that's exactly what's happened today. It's been a really good. 327 \ 00:40:24.850 --> 00:40:43.629 \ Audio shared by Joolz | Community Climate Action: A good meeting of some minds, a bunch of passionate people who want to make a difference. You can really feel the energy talking about energy. Yeah, it's really exciting. So if you wanted to get involved in any action locally to you, or if you wanted us to come and deliver a workshop, our website is communityclimateaction.uk. We would love to speak to you. 328 \ 00:40:54.730 --> 00:41:05.690 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So there we go, and the last bit at the end where our community climate action crew were doing this, was designed to be a still, but it was great that they captured it on the, on the video. 329 \ 00:41:05.880 --> 00:41:11.069 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So the offer here is, we're obviously on a free webinar. 330 \ 00:41:11.250 --> 00:41:17.289 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And Essex County Council are match funding, workshops, 50%. 331 \ 00:41:17.570 --> 00:41:21.210 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: The price for a workshop is £3,500. 332 \ 00:41:21.440 --> 00:41:26.090 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And that includes… I'll come on to, 333 \ 00:41:26.400 --> 00:41:32.809 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: a little bit more detail, but venue, catering, promotion, Eventbrite, Facebook Marketing. 334 \ 00:41:32.810 --> 00:41:38.079 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: All of that kind of thing, to get our, anchor institutions along in our respective areas. 335 \ 00:41:38.800 --> 00:41:45.609 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: We're anticipating that would be funded by yourselves, town or parish councils. 336 \ 00:41:45.740 --> 00:41:54.349 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And we would propose that for smaller councils, clustering, in threes, for instance, would be a really good, 337 \ 00:41:55.300 --> 00:42:04.409 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Option, and that reduces the cost further, so the contribution from your parish or town reserves would be in the region of £600. 338 \ 00:42:04.930 --> 00:42:08.220 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: With match funding from Essex County Council. 339 \ 00:42:09.180 --> 00:42:09.670 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: So. 340 \ 00:42:10.160 --> 00:42:24.569 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: There are other options for people who want to dive in, or might be already on the journey, so we heard from a couple of, I think Tendering, and there's Colchester with existing community energy companies, where we can do a tailored community energy plan. 341 \ 00:42:24.570 --> 00:42:30.880 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Which is beyond the first workshop, and that's a deeper dive 342 \ 00:42:30.880 --> 00:42:36.610 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Into energy usage and, and ongoing support. 343 \ 00:42:37.150 --> 00:42:56.649 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: for an action plan, and then there's a full program with year-long support, which is more in the 45,000 to £55,000 pound range for people who really want to decarbonise, aiming for… for councils aiming for transformation, and Essex County Council grant funding is available for that. 344 \ 00:42:59.490 --> 00:43:08.099 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So, let me just… there we go, back to the presentation. So, as I say, we do the Facebook, marketing. 345 \ 00:43:08.290 --> 00:43:10.670 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: For the respective events. 346 \ 00:43:10.730 --> 00:43:16.490 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: We… we do… we manage all of the attendees and the registrations. 347 \ 00:43:16.490 --> 00:43:31.359 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And the institutions that we're really looking to attend are our anchor institutions, what makes a community. So that's our schools, our community pubs, our faith groups, our town and parish councils, and in particular, our sports clubs. 348 \ 00:43:31.650 --> 00:43:32.640 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: Awesome. 349 \ 00:43:32.810 --> 00:43:40.090 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: We, as I say, manage the, marketing in terms of flyers and posters to get people to come along. 350 \ 00:43:41.470 --> 00:43:45.339 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: The outcome of our, some of our workshops have been. 351 \ 00:43:45.440 --> 00:43:58.310 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: The kind of, stakeholders that you can see, on screen, so people like Sport England, Ministry for Ecoeducation, who supply schools with curriculum, and of course our associations of local councils. 352 \ 00:43:58.510 --> 00:44:04.309 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: We've now got, our 7 clusters, 7 parishes in our cluster. 353 \ 00:44:04.420 --> 00:44:10.399 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: We have regular meetings with working groups on each of the items, and one of the things we've done is bought a pub. 354 \ 00:44:11.020 --> 00:44:13.039 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: That's going to be covered in solar. 355 \ 00:44:13.170 --> 00:44:16.980 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And we're gonna do direct supply to our neighbours, so behind the meter's supply. 356 \ 00:44:17.750 --> 00:44:23.620 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: We can supply energy locally via a primary substation for… via energy local clubs. 357 \ 00:44:23.890 --> 00:44:35.750 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Which is a new initiative that can reduce the cost by up to 30% for our residents. And depending on usage profile of a typical customer, it can be anywhere… saving of anywhere between 10 358 \ 00:44:35.750 --> 00:44:44.939 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: to 30%. So that's things like where we have groups of schools, and this is a live project we're working on in Norfolk. Groups of schools, of course, schools aren't there. 359 \ 00:44:45.300 --> 00:44:52.150 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: In August. They're not using the power. So, who's going to have the off-take? You know, that kind of thing is ideal. 360 \ 00:44:52.620 --> 00:45:03.269 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And I'm also working on a rugby club, where I play rugby, albeit touch rugby, and this would be of particular interest to you, Judith, I think, for your village hall. 361 \ 00:45:03.710 --> 00:45:10.700 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: So this is funding from the Key Fund, and they will grant fund a £2,500 energy audit. 362 \ 00:45:11.870 --> 00:45:13.160 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: Nope. We've had that. 363 \ 00:45:13.600 --> 00:45:14.300 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Sure. 364 \ 00:45:14.300 --> 00:45:18.949 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: We haven't paid to… we had an energy audit. 365 \ 00:45:19.610 --> 00:45:24.410 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: Which wasn't actually as helpful as we'd hoped. 366 \ 00:45:24.900 --> 00:45:29.530 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Sure. Because we'd already had our solar panel estimate. 367 \ 00:45:30.260 --> 00:45:35.450 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: It didn't go much further than the estimate that we had from the commercial company, actually. 368 \ 00:45:35.770 --> 00:45:42.439 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Sure. So this is an on-site survey, and we'll go… will be a very, detailed. 369 \ 00:45:42.740 --> 00:46:05.559 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: survey. I mean, for instance, with Rugby Club, it's looking at cellar cooler, insulation, air source, ground source heat pumps, zonal… zonal heating, renewable energy, floodlights, all of that kind of stuff. So it's really, really in-depth, and it's generally probably required to then access further cap… and it's the capital funding, and then we can access, for instance, for your village hall. 370 \ 00:46:05.630 --> 00:46:10.669 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Six-figure capital funding, which is 40% 371 \ 00:46:10.790 --> 00:46:16.560 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Grant, and 60% friendly loan that's repaid from the savings accrued. 372 \ 00:46:16.820 --> 00:46:17.490 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: Alright. 373 \ 00:46:17.810 --> 00:46:19.710 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: Is that kind… is that kind of… 374 \ 00:46:19.720 --> 00:46:31.180 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: That kind of thing. And with support groups, in terms of making those applications, as, like I say, we've successfully done it for our rugby club, so, you know, I'm on hand to help with that kind of application. 375 \ 00:46:31.900 --> 00:46:49.470 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: We… we look at where the carbon comes from, in a… in your community via an impact tool, which is really helpful from the center for Sustainable Energy. We can see what's gas, what's electric, what comes from food, and potentially what comes from transport. 376 \ 00:46:49.930 --> 00:46:54.110 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And this on screen is a young lad called Ollie. 377 \ 00:46:54.300 --> 00:47:12.529 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: from Plume Academy in Molden, and this is him at a Malden workshop with his certificate achievement and solar-powered wind turbine to take away, which is a bit of a prop, bit of fun. But Ollie, on the day with his colleague Zoe, did a desktop feasibility study for Plume Academy. 378 \ 00:47:12.830 --> 00:47:15.559 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Which shows enormous solar potential. 379 \ 00:47:15.630 --> 00:47:20.709 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Generating nearly 800,000 kilowatt hours, potentially, per year. 380 \ 00:47:20.750 --> 00:47:37.839 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: making huge annual savings, and can potentially supply, locally as well. And that project… Ollie and Zoe went back and presented their findings to the head teacher, and the chief financial officer, and we're now having further conversations. 381 \ 00:47:38.650 --> 00:47:44.190 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: This is an example of, of a map where you can find spaces to put a wind turbine. 382 \ 00:47:44.350 --> 00:47:49.229 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And this is what we use for our desktop feasibility for our project in Norfolk. 383 \ 00:47:49.470 --> 00:47:59.310 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And we have other mapping available as well, which includes EPC certificates for energy savings. You know, where's the biggest bang for your buck, and which properties do we need to do first? 384 \ 00:48:00.290 --> 00:48:09.400 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: That's a different version of the same data for, siting wind turbines, and we've got similar data available for potential wind farms. 385 \ 00:48:10.010 --> 00:48:18.869 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So, that's a whistle-stop tour, with apologies for my router playing up and a little bit of a late start, of, our 386 \ 00:48:19.000 --> 00:48:22.069 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: planning our way to an energy resilience Programme and power. 387 \ 00:48:22.530 --> 00:48:32.950 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So we invite you to join in, and we'd love to come and help support your communities to deliver community renewable energy throughout Essex, which is cleaner, greener, and cheaper. 388 \ 00:48:34.380 --> 00:48:39.289 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So, really happy to answer any questions. I'll just stop sharing my screen. 389 \ 00:48:39.590 --> 00:48:44.029 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Before we dive into questions or expressions of interest. 390 \ 00:48:44.280 --> 00:48:59.729 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: we've got a couple of community energy groups on the call, including Colchester Community Energy and Tendering. So I also want to just highlight that, the program extends to supporting community energy groups in terms of government, governance, community engagement. 391 \ 00:48:59.820 --> 00:49:06.659 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Shared services, how we reduce our respective costs and work together collaboratively, perhaps even cooperatively. 392 \ 00:49:06.800 --> 00:49:09.040 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: In a wider co-op of COPs. 393 \ 00:49:09.180 --> 00:49:14.940 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Great, so there we go, like I say, a whistle-stop tour, and happy to answer any questions. 394 \ 00:49:17.860 --> 00:49:18.750 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Ian. 395 \ 00:49:19.480 --> 00:49:22.979 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: It's a very simple question. Is it possible to have a copy of the slides? 396 \ 00:49:23.330 --> 00:49:24.180 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yes, of course. 397 \ 00:49:24.670 --> 00:49:26.700 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And this is being recorded. 398 \ 00:49:27.440 --> 00:49:33.749 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And there will be an AI transcript of the meeting as well, so we will share the slides, the recording, and the transcript. 399 \ 00:49:34.000 --> 00:49:42.100 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: That's brilliant, because then, assuming that I am co-opted, as they say, I would want to share that with Donna, who I know you know. 400 \ 00:49:42.100 --> 00:49:42.820 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yes. 401 \ 00:49:42.820 --> 00:49:43.450 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: Yes. 402 \ 00:49:43.920 --> 00:49:44.820 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Fantastic. 403 \ 00:49:45.410 --> 00:49:54.939 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: Jules, can I ask, have you engaged, particularly with an energy company to purchase the excess electricity? Because we're going to have a lot of electricity left over. 404 \ 00:49:55.230 --> 00:49:56.689 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: From your village hall, do you mean? 405 \ 00:49:56.690 --> 00:49:57.470 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: Yes. 406 \ 00:49:57.670 --> 00:50:07.290 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So yes, you've got a number of options, and that would be, you know, that would be part of an initial desktop feasibility study. 407 \ 00:50:07.760 --> 00:50:10.940 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So, specifically, we could look at where the village hall is. 408 \ 00:50:11.460 --> 00:50:13.710 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: We can look at storage. 409 \ 00:50:13.950 --> 00:50:15.640 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: of excess. 410 \ 00:50:15.650 --> 00:50:16.600 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: Energy? 411 \ 00:50:17.130 --> 00:50:18.020 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Hmm. 412 \ 00:50:18.020 --> 00:50:19.210 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: Like, of a battery. 413 \ 00:50:19.430 --> 00:50:20.330 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yeah, which… 414 \ 00:50:20.330 --> 00:50:24.289 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: And with the amount of roof that that's got, there will be excess. 415 \ 00:50:24.530 --> 00:50:35.999 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Fabulous. So, like I say, there's a number of options there. There may be our village hall, and again, we're looking at our village hall, our school, and our shop, and our dentist, which are pretty much… 416 \ 00:50:36.410 --> 00:50:38.269 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: just… just together. 417 \ 00:50:40.100 --> 00:50:45.169 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And so we can do what's called, a behind-the-meter supply, direct supply. 418 \ 00:50:45.620 --> 00:50:52.039 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Which is… which is to an existing business, or somebody that would use the energy during the… during the day. 419 \ 00:50:52.960 --> 00:51:01.429 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Or alternatively, we could look at an energy local club, which means household use via the local primary substation. 420 \ 00:51:01.560 --> 00:51:08.650 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So if you've got some excess energy, you can make a bit more money than you would selling to, a supplier. 421 \ 00:51:09.620 --> 00:51:16.130 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So, to give you an example, you know, people might purchase energy at 24p, per unit. 422 \ 00:51:16.460 --> 00:51:21.469 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And the supplier might buy it from a generator, 8P. 423 \ 00:51:21.920 --> 00:51:28.500 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So that's where the margin and profit is. But, you know, let's imagine, well, this is a model with, 424 \ 00:51:28.770 --> 00:51:37.369 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: with, Energy Local, potentially, members of an Energy Local club could buy energy at 15p. 425 \ 00:51:37.840 --> 00:51:43.680 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And you could sell your excess for an additional 7p, so it's kind of win-win. So yes, there are some options for that. 426 \ 00:51:44.860 --> 00:51:45.780 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: Hmm. 427 \ 00:51:51.820 --> 00:51:53.499 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Do we have any other questions? 428 \ 00:51:53.500 --> 00:52:05.420 \ Martyn Hart: Martin here, I've got a question. Okay. To set up one of these energy local groups, do you… I mean, what do you have to do? I mean, do you have to declare yourself as a supplier? 429 \ 00:52:06.100 --> 00:52:09.289 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: No, you're not a supplier, you're a generator, or we are. 430 \ 00:52:09.290 --> 00:52:10.359 \ Martyn Hart: Generator, okay. 431 \ 00:52:10.360 --> 00:52:17.470 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: a generator. So, again, a bit like the really large-scale solar farms that private capital are hoping to build or building. 432 \ 00:52:17.600 --> 00:52:30.970 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: They are not an energy supplier. They are a generator, and they will sell their electricity to a supplier. In the… with the energy local, the supplier involved is called 100 Green. 433 \ 00:52:31.150 --> 00:52:35.789 \ Martyn Hart: Well, that's their preferred supplier, but Octopus do something like this as well, don't they? 434 \ 00:52:35.790 --> 00:52:41.459 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Octopus do something similar, but for Octopus Generation, yeah, they have a… they have a… they have their own octopus club. 435 \ 00:52:41.780 --> 00:52:46.799 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: But specifically for Energy Local, it would be 100 Green is the supplier. 436 \ 00:52:46.800 --> 00:52:49.979 \ Martyn Hart: So, could we choose our own supplier? 437 \ 00:52:49.980 --> 00:52:51.340 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: No. 438 \ 00:52:51.340 --> 00:52:51.820 \ Martyn Hart: Boom. 439 \ 00:52:51.820 --> 00:52:54.070 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Not at the moment, not through Energy Local. 440 \ 00:52:54.070 --> 00:52:57.519 \ Martyn Hart: No, I mean, if we were to do it ourselves, without Energy Local. 441 \ 00:52:57.520 --> 00:53:06.310 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yes, absolutely, but there are… there are fewer benefits. So, yes, there are, there are a number of options, for… 442 \ 00:53:06.470 --> 00:53:16.220 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: For customers, basically, for a generator. And yes, we can negotiate and, individual power purchase agreements, depending on scale. 443 \ 00:53:16.490 --> 00:53:21.950 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Of generations. So it might be very different, for instance, from a pub and a village hall. 444 \ 00:53:22.290 --> 00:53:25.990 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: to our project, which is way too big for Energy Local. 445 \ 00:53:26.110 --> 00:53:43.710 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: I think the limit is maybe 2MW, don't quote me on that, but our project is 11 megawatt, and it will power 6,000 homes, so we're too big to fit into that category. So yes, we'll be negotiating a different power purchase agreement with, respective organizations. 446 \ 00:53:43.710 --> 00:53:53.339 \ Martyn Hart: So is, Jules, is Energy Local then a bit like a sort of small aggregator? It takes power for a number of small community energy groups. 447 \ 00:53:53.620 --> 00:53:57.330 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And therefore makes itself more attractive to say 100… 448 \ 00:53:57.440 --> 00:53:58.420 \ Martyn Hart: green. 449 \ 00:53:59.120 --> 00:54:08.959 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: 100 Green is their specific partner, and Energy Local are a cooperative, and they… and the Energy Local clubs are relatively new. 450 \ 00:54:09.140 --> 00:54:13.739 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So, you know, some colleagues, some friends of mine have set one up in Hull. 451 \ 00:54:13.880 --> 00:54:23.140 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And they've been funded by the government's Community Energy Fund to do that as a feasibility study. There's another one, I forget, I think it's in the northwest. 452 \ 00:54:23.150 --> 00:54:34.449 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: That's set up, and so it's relatively new, and there's a private member's bill going through Parliament to just ratify exactly, exactly how that works at the moment. 453 \ 00:54:34.450 --> 00:54:44.469 \ Martyn Hart: we've been approached, and Omar knows this, through Exit Scouter Council, Energy Local, which appears to be a bit like a consultancy. 454 \ 00:54:44.740 --> 00:54:45.979 \ Martyn Hart: They do. 455 \ 00:54:47.000 --> 00:54:50.180 \ Martyn Hart: They should help us set up a local energy group. 456 \ 00:54:50.760 --> 00:55:04.019 \ Martyn Hart: So they're not a… they don't seem… I don't know, am I right, Omer? They're not a, generator on their own, but they seem to have lots of small generators that they've helped, a lot of them in Wales. 457 \ 00:55:04.460 --> 00:55:05.110 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yes. 458 \ 00:55:06.120 --> 00:55:17.259 \ Omar Al-Amin: Yes, but they, I don't think it's that they aggregate the generation, it's that they, 459 \ 00:55:17.510 --> 00:55:21.980 \ Omar Al-Amin: Are able to, to, kind of, 460 \ 00:55:22.400 --> 00:55:31.160 \ Omar Al-Amin: Help, local generators kind of go through the bureaucracy, kind of un… 461 \ 00:55:31.390 --> 00:55:36.430 \ Omar Al-Amin: help realize the model, basically. They, they, they're… they have the… 462 \ 00:55:36.620 --> 00:55:41.880 \ Omar Al-Amin: The processes that they go through to help, yeah, kind of unlock the model. 463 \ 00:55:43.640 --> 00:55:57.770 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And we have some deeper dive training in January, coming up. I've got two days booked on, for that. And that involves, you know, signing up people in the local community on the… on the local… it has to be on the local primary substation. 464 \ 00:55:57.990 --> 00:56:02.840 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: But yes, they're an aggregator, really, of customers rather than generators. 465 \ 00:56:02.840 --> 00:56:10.669 \ Martyn Hart: Yeah, that's what I meant. They're acting on behalf of all those small customers, and they have their deal with 100 Green. 466 \ 00:56:11.180 --> 00:56:11.760 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yeah. 467 \ 00:56:11.900 --> 00:56:18.989 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yeah, that's right. And 100 Green is the supplier, so when there isn't any generation from the Village Hall. 468 \ 00:56:19.230 --> 00:56:19.809 \ Martyn Hart: You know, it's. 469 \ 00:56:19.810 --> 00:56:20.840 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: commodity Day. 470 \ 00:56:20.840 --> 00:56:22.189 \ Martyn Hart: They make up the difference, yeah. 471 \ 00:56:22.190 --> 00:56:33.569 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: 100 green would be the supplier through your normal grid connection, you know, at a reasonable competitive rate. So, it certainly looks to be win-win. 472 \ 00:56:33.700 --> 00:56:53.230 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And certainly something I'm super keen to deliver, primarily because it actually delivers a pound saving for our residents. When people say, oh, I don't want a wind turbine, I don't want to look at the wind turbine, well, if it saves 20-30% of their energy costs, those conversations are different. 473 \ 00:56:54.130 --> 00:56:58.099 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: You know, so, yeah, really looking forward to that. Lavinia. 474 \ 00:56:58.390 --> 00:57:04.690 \ Lavinia Tendring -Essex: No, I just want to understand Energy Local from a technical point of view, so… 475 \ 00:57:04.890 --> 00:57:19.569 \ Lavinia Tendring -Essex: if we produce the electricity, it only goes to the substation, so it doesn't have to go through all the transport network where the losses are happening. Is this what's gonna happen? 476 \ 00:57:19.780 --> 00:57:20.390 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yes. 477 \ 00:57:20.390 --> 00:57:28.380 \ Lavinia Tendring -Essex: So, literally, it's like… not a peer-to-peer, but we save the losses that will happen in the cables. 478 \ 00:57:29.090 --> 00:57:36.860 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yes, and also, I mean, also there's a cost associated with onward transmission when using the grid. 479 \ 00:57:36.860 --> 00:57:39.700 \ Lavinia Tendring -Essex: No, it's the advantage, then, to actually use… 480 \ 00:57:40.050 --> 00:57:40.540 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yes. 481 \ 00:57:40.730 --> 00:57:41.590 \ Lavinia Tendring -Essex: Yeah. 482 \ 00:57:41.590 --> 00:57:52.130 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yeah, so that's where… that's where a good percent… you know, that's where the majority of the cost savings come from, is there's no onward transmission through the grid, so there's no payment to the grid network. 483 \ 00:57:52.220 --> 00:58:04.460 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: To make those savings and pass those savings on to our… our respective residents. And it's very elegant, because it means, you know, the power's being used where it's needed. 484 \ 00:58:04.580 --> 00:58:06.070 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And used locally. 485 \ 00:58:07.670 --> 00:58:14.699 \ Joanne Knowles - Horsham: Can I just ask Jules a couple of quick questions? Can you define community? How big or small is that? 486 \ 00:58:15.030 --> 00:58:18.429 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Really good question. I mean… 487 \ 00:58:18.900 --> 00:58:22.390 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: It's… it's almost how long is a piece of string, in the… 488 \ 00:58:22.390 --> 00:58:23.170 \ Joanne Knowles - Horsham: Excellent. 489 \ 00:58:23.170 --> 00:58:24.410 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Ain't that. 490 \ 00:58:24.410 --> 00:58:28.170 \ Joanne Knowles - Horsham: No… no too small, no too big. We can make it… something work. 491 \ 00:58:28.170 --> 00:58:31.880 \ Lavinia Tendring -Essex: Yes, that's right. So, our project, for instance, and we've… 492 \ 00:58:31.880 --> 00:58:37.780 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: you know, it's seven… seven parishes coming together. We're a relatively rural network of villages. 493 \ 00:58:38.080 --> 00:58:42.340 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: But it's an 11 megawatt project that will power 6,000 homes. 494 \ 00:58:42.940 --> 00:58:50.640 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Some of the projects that Christopher mentioned are of an ilk or a scale. 495 \ 00:58:50.690 --> 00:59:08.140 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And so we're looking to really support communities to bring forward smaller-scale projects, that might be a village hall, you know, let's make them as efficient as possible and save money, or larger scale generation. You know, how do we really get 496 \ 00:59:08.310 --> 00:59:17.210 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: hit those, renewable energy targets for Essex. So, you know, let's look at some wind turbines and what have you. 497 \ 00:59:17.400 --> 00:59:18.270 \ Joanne Knowles - Horsham: Right. 498 \ 00:59:18.270 --> 00:59:27.729 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: One of the… one of the real objections in Norfolk is to a 3,500 acre solar farm. 499 \ 00:59:28.280 --> 00:59:40.500 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Surrounding a whole bunch of villages just south of Norwich, that's Faunset, and that's referred to as the Tazway Solar Project. It's 3,500 acres, and it literally surrounds loads of rural villages. 500 \ 00:59:40.640 --> 00:59:50.750 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And our alternative proposal that we're discussing with, the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England is, well, let's consider maybe if we could cite 501 \ 00:59:51.220 --> 01:00:00.750 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: a similar generation capacity with wind turbines, and we could use 10% of the land. That would be 350 acres, rather than 3,500. 502 \ 01:00:00.750 --> 01:00:14.149 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So that's a large-scale community project, you know, and that would power a lot of Norwich, for instance. So, in terms of community, it… I guess it's the geographical area it might supply or be in. 503 \ 01:00:15.290 --> 01:00:22.140 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Because we're the people that need to look at it on a day-to-day basis, and who will benefit from it? 504 \ 01:00:22.790 --> 01:00:28.360 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: But then in terms of a wider community, you know, who might benefit from the supply and this kind of thing? 505 \ 01:00:29.670 --> 01:00:36.870 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Also, it's worth considering, in terms of community, the custodian, the legal entity. 506 \ 01:00:37.150 --> 01:00:39.470 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So, Christian… 507 \ 01:00:39.470 --> 01:00:41.329 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: I have to go now, I'm sorry. 508 \ 01:00:41.530 --> 01:00:43.210 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Oh, no worries, Judith. 509 \ 01:00:43.210 --> 01:00:46.810 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: Yeah, I've got a… I've got a meeting at Harpust 6. 510 \ 01:00:46.810 --> 01:00:47.520 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Sure. 511 \ 01:00:47.720 --> 01:00:48.070 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: Thank you. 512 \ 01:00:48.460 --> 01:00:55.420 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yeah, well, lovely to see you, and good luck with you. Thank you, thank you very much. Look forward to further conversations about the Village Hall. 513 \ 01:00:55.780 --> 01:00:57.329 \ Judith Woolley Roxwell: Thank you. Bye-bye then. 514 \ 01:00:57.330 --> 01:00:57.950 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Bye-bye. 515 \ 01:00:58.640 --> 01:01:03.349 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So we've got Christopher here from Colchester Community Energy, and… 516 \ 01:01:04.590 --> 01:01:18.099 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Lavinia from Tendring, who already have community energy companies. So I would suggest it's worthwhile looking at what might be in and around the area in terms of an existing legal entity. 517 \ 01:01:18.400 --> 01:01:29.739 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Because it's, it costs more with duplicate effort, popping up loads of micro-entities, so, you know, you can sort of join in. But we can then support, through that co-op. 518 \ 01:01:29.940 --> 01:01:33.209 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And potentially shared services through a corp of cops. 519 \ 01:01:33.320 --> 01:01:38.599 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Micro projects, or much larger scale, development. 520 \ 01:01:39.420 --> 01:01:40.910 \ Joanne Knowles - Horsham: Brilliant, thank you. Thanks very much. 521 \ 01:01:40.910 --> 01:01:41.670 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: You're welcome. 522 \ 01:01:42.280 --> 01:01:43.430 \ Jane Holloway: Can I jump in? 523 \ 01:01:43.790 --> 01:01:44.530 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Sure. 524 \ 01:01:45.100 --> 01:01:48.680 \ Jane Holloway: I live in northwest Essex. 525 \ 01:01:48.970 --> 01:01:52.079 \ Jane Holloway: And I have a sister, actually, who lives in St. Peter. 526 \ 01:01:53.640 --> 01:01:56.790 \ Jane Holloway: Who is… they're dreadfully upset about what's happening. 527 \ 01:01:56.790 --> 01:01:57.710 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yes. But… 528 \ 01:01:57.710 --> 01:02:00.540 \ Jane Holloway: I was interested in your solar on stilts. 529 \ 01:02:01.880 --> 01:02:02.210 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yeah. 530 \ 01:02:03.950 --> 01:02:06.010 \ Jane Holloway: Teams are very sensible. 531 \ 01:02:06.170 --> 01:02:09.019 \ Jane Holloway: Way forward, but how… how high are the stilts? 532 \ 01:02:09.980 --> 01:02:15.870 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So there's, part of our feasibility study is looking at different options. 533 \ 01:02:16.300 --> 01:02:20.410 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: You can put solar on stilts, they can be big enough to get a combine under. 534 \ 01:02:21.160 --> 01:02:25.150 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Oh, really? Yes, so they are suitably high. 535 \ 01:02:25.320 --> 01:02:41.359 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Or you can have what's called bifacial panels, which are more like fences, east and west, and you can have cattle grazing, or you can have it in rows, so you can get your combine up and down the row with your tractor and trailer taking the wheat on the, in the other, in the other row. 536 \ 01:02:41.910 --> 01:02:42.470 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Now… 537 \ 01:02:42.470 --> 01:02:49.190 \ Jane Holloway: This seems like a sensible way forward if you've got, say, quite a big village hall. 538 \ 01:02:49.320 --> 01:02:51.000 \ Jane Holloway: Car park, perhaps. 539 \ 01:02:52.390 --> 01:02:54.879 \ Jane Holloway: If you've got solar over that. 540 \ 01:02:55.150 --> 01:02:59.809 \ Jane Holloway: Then not only would you be generating power, You would have… 541 \ 01:03:00.000 --> 01:03:03.430 \ Jane Holloway: Shade in the summer for people parking their cars. 542 \ 01:03:03.690 --> 01:03:08.440 \ Jane Holloway: And you'd have shelter in the winter for people trying to get from their car to the village hall. 543 \ 01:03:08.610 --> 01:03:10.549 \ Jane Holloway: It… it just seems like a… 544 \ 01:03:11.920 --> 01:03:18.529 \ Jane Holloway: sensible way forward, because you're then not covering agricultural land, you're already… you're covering something that's already 545 \ 01:03:18.680 --> 01:03:21.469 \ Jane Holloway: Concreted or hard-surfaced. 546 \ 01:03:21.610 --> 01:03:23.820 \ Martyn Hart: You can charge their cars. 547 \ 01:03:23.980 --> 01:03:34.949 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yeah, absolutely, and we're looking at some car park canopy project, or a specific car park canopy project with, South Norfolk District Council at the moment. 548 \ 01:03:35.130 --> 01:03:52.169 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And also inspired by… I'm not… I think Vita might have, might have left, but also inspired… Vita is the, Community Energy Officer for Cambridgeshire, and they're doing a very big park and ride solar canopy for a car park, and 549 \ 01:03:52.930 --> 01:03:59.510 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: engaging with or supporting communities, like, I think you said your sister, lived. 550 \ 01:03:59.510 --> 01:04:00.020 \ Jane Holloway: Mmm. 551 \ 01:04:00.020 --> 01:04:00.650 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: It is… 552 \ 01:04:00.650 --> 01:04:01.590 \ Jane Holloway: Influence it, yeah. 553 \ 01:04:01.590 --> 01:04:08.369 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: is, and with the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England, is really, we're looking at a, you know, rooftop-first 554 \ 01:04:08.530 --> 01:04:24.490 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: policy where we can look at large, large commercial warehouse rooftops, car parks. I'm a big fan of solar canopies for car parks, because yes, there's power… power's where you need it. You can stop and charge, and shade… 555 \ 01:04:25.210 --> 01:04:28.000 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And shelter from rain. 556 \ 01:04:28.000 --> 01:04:28.550 \ Jane Holloway: Yeah. 557 \ 01:04:28.550 --> 01:04:32.710 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Particularly important these days when it's so hot in the summer. 558 \ 01:04:32.710 --> 01:04:39.939 \ Jane Holloway: And you're going to lower that impact on all the rest of the ecology that goes with that agricultural land. 559 \ 01:04:39.940 --> 01:04:44.589 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yes, so I'd be delighted if anyone on the call has a car park they'd like to have a look at. 560 \ 01:04:45.910 --> 01:04:50.060 \ Jane Holloway: Yeah, well, I'm busy thinking about our village hall, but I'm not sure if it's big enough. 561 \ 01:04:50.060 --> 01:04:57.679 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Sure. I would say, I mean, any… I would say any car… any Village Hall car park is likely large enough for a solar canopy. 562 \ 01:04:58.270 --> 01:04:59.010 \ Jane Holloway: Really? 563 \ 01:05:00.490 --> 01:05:03.920 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: If you imagine, it's just extra roof space, basically. 564 \ 01:05:04.190 --> 01:05:04.650 \ Jane Holloway: Yeah! 565 \ 01:05:04.650 --> 01:05:16.890 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: You know, it's… yes, I think it would work, you know. And there's some quite elegant designs as well. It doesn't just have to be, you know, fixed solar panels. There are flexible panels that can be curved, and all sorts now, so… 566 \ 01:05:17.140 --> 01:05:17.980 \ Jane Holloway: Wow. 567 \ 01:05:18.690 --> 01:05:23.170 \ Jane Holloway: And where can you see these? Are there any actually built? 568 \ 01:05:23.740 --> 01:05:25.419 \ Jane Holloway: And being used. 569 \ 01:05:25.420 --> 01:05:26.870 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yes, yes, there are. 570 \ 01:05:27.190 --> 01:05:31.260 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: I can, I can find some examples and send them to you. 571 \ 01:05:31.720 --> 01:05:36.069 \ Jane Holloway: Right, then the other issue she was talking about was she went to a, 572 \ 01:05:36.670 --> 01:05:49.189 \ Jane Holloway: I think the developers were… held some sort of forum, and they want something like 7 acres of land out there, just for battery storage for all this power. 573 \ 01:05:49.770 --> 01:06:01.730 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yes, that's right, and transformers and what have you, and there are likely to be, you know, large metal fences put up surrounding them for security with lights, which will disturb the wildlife in this. 574 \ 01:06:01.730 --> 01:06:02.290 \ Jane Holloway: Ray. 575 \ 01:06:02.490 --> 01:06:10.400 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And, yeah, I mean, I've been… so I've been to a couple of events recently, hence, you know, hence… and just… just to offer support. 576 \ 01:06:10.470 --> 01:06:22.639 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: But, you know, I think, community energy is the way forward, because this project at Tazway, while it's generating 700 megawatts of energy and will power 200,000 homes. 577 \ 01:06:23.080 --> 01:06:37.570 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: all of that energy will be consumed elsewhere, and there's no benefit to the community. So it's pretty much an extractive model of international capital, you know, and very, as I say, no real benefit. 578 \ 01:06:37.770 --> 01:06:38.550 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: To those… 579 \ 01:06:38.550 --> 01:06:43.980 \ Jane Holloway: But for a community, is it not more sensible to go, people's roofs first? 580 \ 01:06:44.600 --> 01:06:50.059 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So there are economies of scale when you're looking at rooftop solar, so if you're doing homes. 581 \ 01:06:50.290 --> 01:07:07.189 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: that's less efficient, than doing, large-scale commercial buildings, and in turn, that's slightly less efficient than doing really large-scale, land-based. But there's options. You can do agrivoltaics, solar and stilts. 582 \ 01:07:07.190 --> 01:07:19.589 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: But I am a fan of… I am a fan, and it's a piece of work we're doing for the Campaign for Protection of Rural England, looking at rooftop First. They've got a report by University College London about the amounts and what have you. 583 \ 01:07:21.250 --> 01:07:30.620 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And, you know, and we're now just doing a survey of what could be possible if we were to, if, you know, if we've… 584 \ 01:07:30.760 --> 01:07:44.749 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: If we did rooftops, you know, we've got a project, in… or a nascent proposal for a very large commercial warehouse in Malden, and again, that was the outcome of one of our workshops. 585 \ 01:07:45.400 --> 01:07:47.750 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And… 586 \ 01:07:47.940 --> 01:07:58.310 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: We're just contacting the owner, and, Essex, Omar's colleague, Adam, has done that, and we're now trying to figure out how much, how much they want for the rent of the roof space. 587 \ 01:07:59.460 --> 01:08:00.030 \ Jane Holloway: Alright. 588 \ 01:08:00.030 --> 01:08:04.850 \ Bonny | Community Climate Action: I'm afraid I'm going to have to excuse myself, but it's lovely to see you all. Thank you so much for coming. 589 \ 01:08:05.170 --> 01:08:06.200 \ Joanne Knowles - Horsham: Thanks, Bonnie. 590 \ 01:08:06.200 --> 01:08:07.630 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Sure, thanks, buddy. 591 \ 01:08:08.480 --> 01:08:11.779 \ Jane Holloway: Just one more jumping in, because my head is now… 592 \ 01:08:12.650 --> 01:08:21.639 \ Jane Holloway: going into overdrive, thinking, we only have one… we're very rural, we only have one proper pavement, but thinking, actually, that solar on stilts 593 \ 01:08:22.380 --> 01:08:24.249 \ Jane Holloway: If that was down the pavement. 594 \ 01:08:24.250 --> 01:08:24.970 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Huh. 595 \ 01:08:25.140 --> 01:08:30.770 \ Jane Holloway: Again, People out walking, Wouldn't have to have umbrellas, would they? 596 \ 01:08:31.050 --> 01:08:34.420 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: No, that's right. I mean, some people might like the sunshine. 597 \ 01:08:34.720 --> 01:08:38.960 \ Jane Holloway: But I suppose, as well, then you've got the danger of cars. 598 \ 01:08:39.869 --> 01:08:43.829 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yeah, the car's… I think the car's probably less so, but, 599 \ 01:08:43.939 --> 01:08:46.309 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: There may be an objection to that, because. 600 \ 01:08:46.310 --> 01:08:46.810 \ Jane Holloway: Yeah. 601 \ 01:08:46.819 --> 01:08:48.149 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: I'd like to walk in the sun. 602 \ 01:08:48.729 --> 01:08:49.369 \ Jane Holloway: Yeah, they might. 603 \ 01:08:49.370 --> 01:08:59.869 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: But… but Jane, I mean, if you're in a rural area, perhaps consider your neighbouring parishes, whether or not they might cluster, and these are all the kind of lovely ideas that we can, you know, we can. 604 \ 01:08:59.899 --> 01:09:03.740 \ Jane Holloway: look at… Would that work if that was cross… cross-county? 605 \ 01:09:04.920 --> 01:09:10.049 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: We could ask Omar very nicely, it depends which county. 606 \ 01:09:10.050 --> 01:09:15.199 \ Jane Holloway: I mean, I'm just… I mean, we're literally on the… we border Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire. 607 \ 01:09:15.200 --> 01:09:24.770 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Okay, well, Vita, who's the Community Energy Officer for Cambridgeshire, has, has not on the… what… joined earlier. 608 \ 01:09:24.779 --> 01:09:25.099 \ Jane Holloway: Go on. 609 \ 01:09:25.100 --> 01:09:41.019 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: She's not no longer on the call, but I will ask her, because they're just launching theirs, and their county is, providing some limited funding for feasibility studies. So, I don't know, Omar, wouldn't that be a really cool outcome if we joined up 610 \ 01:09:41.300 --> 01:09:43.839 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: You know, resources? I think so. 611 \ 01:09:43.840 --> 01:09:50.189 \ Omar Al-Amin: Well, yeah, we're actually meeting Vita later this week, to kind of, 612 \ 01:09:50.819 --> 01:09:57.149 \ Omar Al-Amin: learn from them, and then learn from us about what we're both doing in our respective counties, and… 613 \ 01:09:57.260 --> 01:10:03.490 \ Omar Al-Amin: Explore the possibilities of, yeah, joining forces. 614 \ 01:10:03.930 --> 01:10:13.839 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Great. So again, I've had similar conversations around stirre power. I think it's stir… it… that doesn't roll off the tongue quite as… 615 \ 01:10:13.840 --> 01:10:14.230 \ Jane Holloway: No. 616 \ 01:10:14.230 --> 01:10:16.290 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: exists as stower power. 617 \ 01:10:16.660 --> 01:10:23.319 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: But the… but Stir Power, our community energy company based in Suffolk. 618 \ 01:10:23.630 --> 01:10:24.080 \ Jane Holloway: Take care. 619 \ 01:10:24.080 --> 01:10:32.459 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: operations south of the river to look at communities in Essex. So again, let's not worry too much about, you know. 620 \ 01:10:32.460 --> 01:10:33.280 \ Jane Holloway: County boundaries. 621 \ 01:10:33.280 --> 01:10:40.150 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: county boundaries. Specifically, the funding here is for communities in Essex, but, you know, we're stronger together. 622 \ 01:10:40.630 --> 01:10:43.420 \ Jane Holloway: Yeah, I agree. Thank you very much. 623 \ 01:10:43.420 --> 01:10:52.290 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: Yeah, I think, from my experience, I've looked at, commercial… Soda. 624 \ 01:10:53.020 --> 01:11:11.690 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: In its various levels. And one of the practical considerations is about connectivity, and how you actually do the physical cabling and the cost of it. I've looked at various schemes. 625 \ 01:11:11.840 --> 01:11:16.960 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: In the past, and… With one exception, they've all died. 626 \ 01:11:17.400 --> 01:11:29.249 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: Because the cost of doing the cabling has made them unattractive, which I think is a terrible shame, but it is a reality of life that I think people just do need to be aware of. 627 \ 01:11:30.460 --> 01:11:35.220 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yeah, absolutely. I mean, everything's fully costed via a feasibility study. 628 \ 01:11:35.360 --> 01:11:42.739 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Often there's an opportunity for direct use, particularly in industrial or, you know, business contexts, so… 629 \ 01:11:43.900 --> 01:11:44.820 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: Yeah. 630 \ 01:11:44.820 --> 01:11:45.460 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yep. 631 \ 01:11:45.920 --> 01:11:46.580 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: Yeah. 632 \ 01:11:51.410 --> 01:11:57.490 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So, any further questions, or indeed expressions of interest? Anyone like to… Crack on? 633 \ 01:11:57.770 --> 01:11:59.289 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: Yeah, I'm happy to put my hand up. 634 \ 01:11:59.640 --> 01:12:14.759 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Okay, great. We've already… we've done… invariably with Stanway, you'll know that we've delivered a workshop in Colchester, and that's how I met Donna, who's the clerk at Stanway, and we were talking to, Persimmon and, and the, the, 635 \ 01:12:15.160 --> 01:12:23.229 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: And the primary school, so yeah, look forward to further conversations on that. That's fantastic, Ian, and good luck getting co-opted onto the council. 636 \ 01:12:23.610 --> 01:12:24.460 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: Yeah, thank you. 637 \ 01:12:28.800 --> 01:12:29.750 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Great. 638 \ 01:12:30.490 --> 01:12:36.870 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: So, Jane or Martin, any further questions before we… before we dive off? And I hope you found it interesting, and. 639 \ 01:12:37.370 --> 01:12:38.180 \ Jane Holloway: Very interesting. 640 \ 01:12:38.180 --> 01:12:40.550 \ Martyn Hart: Very interesting, yeah. Thank you. 641 \ 01:12:40.550 --> 01:12:41.780 \ Jane Holloway: for your time. Thank you. 642 \ 01:12:41.780 --> 01:12:49.590 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: You're welcome. And do either of you have an interest in holding… taking it further, and, you know, you might need to give it a little bit more thought, or talk to. 643 \ 01:12:49.590 --> 01:12:50.250 \ Jane Holloway: Hmm. 644 \ 01:12:50.340 --> 01:12:53.900 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: But do you feel, generally, this is something you'd like to move forward on? 645 \ 01:12:54.410 --> 01:12:58.799 \ Martyn Hart: Well, we're certainly going to move… try and move forward on our community energy group. 646 \ 01:12:59.010 --> 01:12:59.500 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yeah. 647 \ 01:12:59.500 --> 01:13:03.819 \ Martyn Hart: So we're going to the, energy local training in January. 648 \ 01:13:03.860 --> 01:13:04.710 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yes. 649 \ 01:13:04.820 --> 01:13:08.489 \ Martyn Hart: To try and bottom out exactly what we need to do. 650 \ 01:13:08.840 --> 01:13:10.540 \ Martyn Hart: Fantastic. And then, do it. 651 \ 01:13:11.910 --> 01:13:12.560 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Right. 652 \ 01:13:13.250 --> 01:13:14.020 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: Great. 653 \ 01:13:14.020 --> 01:13:15.390 \ Jane Holloway: Great, thank you. 654 \ 01:13:15.390 --> 01:13:16.250 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: Thank you. 655 \ 01:13:16.250 --> 01:13:24.290 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: You're welcome. Well, I'll look forward to further conversations, and see how we might be able to support your aspirations. So, thanks for your time. 656 \ 01:13:24.700 --> 01:13:25.569 \ Jane Holloway: Thank you very much. 657 \ 01:13:25.570 --> 01:13:27.189 \ Joolz | Community Climate Action: I will see you soon. 658 \ 01:13:27.190 --> 01:13:27.800 \ Jane Holloway: Thank you. 659 \ 01:13:27.800 --> 01:13:30.840 \ Ian Griffin -Stanway, Colchester: Bye-bye! Bye-bye. Bye. 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