POWER workshops - 26Nov25 - Planning Our Way to Energy Resilience
The CCA's Energy Resilience programme offering funding and support for community projects
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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.
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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:
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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.
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. Bye-bye.
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