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REvision 2010

REvision 2010. Sub-regional targets for renewable electricity by 2010 Resource Mapping in former Avon area REvision 2010 is: Funded by Government Office for the South West in partnership with the Regional Assembly

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REvision 2010

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  1. REvision 2010 Sub-regional targets for renewable electricity by 2010 Resource Mapping in former Avon area REvision 2010 is: Funded by Government Office for the South West in partnership with the Regional Assembly Delivered by a consortium including Centre for Sustainable Energy, Energy for Sustainable Development, CSMA Consultants and Peter Capener

  2. PRESENTATION OUTLINE • Context and background to REvision 2010 • Progress of REvision 2010 and role of resource mapping • Resource mapping exercise • Landscape sensitivity assessment • Summary

  3. RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY IN CONTEXT • International, national and regional obligations and targets and aspirations • Collective responsibility – supplying our demand – meeting the challenge of climate change • The renewables opportunity! • Rural regeneration • Economic development • Focus on electricity • Not either/or, just one thing at a time • First step in developing regional sustainable energy strategy – with targets

  4. WHY MORE TARGETS? • Focussing debate • Raising awareness • Generating ownership and support • Managing expectations • Leading policy/strategy and action

  5. REVISION 2010 • REvision 2010 – provides consultation process, resource mapping and target scenarios • Not starting with a blank sheet of paper • Targeting county and unitaries – engaging districts – • One target/area – installed capacity, not broken down by technology • Wide stakeholder involvement • Local authorities and partners – adopting targets and embedding within policy and practice

  6. MESSAGES FROM STAKEHOLDER SURVEY IN ‘FORMER AVON’ • Generally positive response to targets, need to be achievable, have wide support, linked to delivery mechanisms and be monitored • Only one or two examples of existing projects though acknowledged activity within NGO sector, Energy Forum • Support for role of LSPs and wide LA engagement • Variable progress on strategy development within four unitary authorities, potential for West of England SES • Need for greater political will and concerns about how unitaries may work together • Concerns about lack of local awareness, expertise, and policy guidance • Potential from energy from waste and integration within new development • Landscape impacts and energy from waste contentious - link with waste management strategies

  7. RESOURCE MAPPING • Accessible economic resource Technical: economic: practical: environmental (basic) • Draws on Regional Resource Assessment, updates data where appropriate and provides a clearer sub regional focus • Offshore resource allocated to region • Accessible resource not meant as a statement of what will be achieved • Acts as a stimulus for debate - a stepping stone to targets

  8. ONSHORE WIND RESOURCE

  9. BIOMASS RESOURCE

  10. ENERGY FROM WASTE

  11. SOLAR PV • Technical/gross resource for Solar huge • Very small accessible resource • Important technology for future development

  12. OFFSHORE RESOURCE

  13. ‘FORMER AVON’ RESOURCE SUMMARY Excludes development in AONBs, National Parks, Heritage Coasts Next stage will not, will use landscape sensitivity assessment

  14. LANDSCAPE MATTERS • Impact on landscape is one of the most contentious aspects for wind energy • Landscape sensitivity/capacity assessment being carried out by Land Use Consultants • Based on Countryside Character Areas developed by the Countryside Agency and English Nature with input by English Heritage • Is being used as an additional filter when going from the accessible resource to the target scenario

  15. CRITERIA FOR ASSESSING LANDSCAPE SENSITIVITY • Landform and scale • Landscape pattern • Landcover/ landuse • Sense of enclosure • Sense of tranquillity • Settlement pattern/transport network • Nature of the skyline • Inter-visibility with adjacent landscapes • Density of sensitive/rare landscape features

  16. NATURE OF ASSESSMENT • Tables contain guidance on size and spacing suitable for each landscape character area (independent of landscape sensitivity): • Wind farm size will depend upon the scale of the landform and landscape pattern • Spacing between windfarms will be determined by topography, enclsoure and visibility • Turbine arrangement/configuration will be determined by each area’s individual character • Sensitivity to wind turbines - determined by physical landform shape and scale, visual enclosure, sense of remoteness or tranquillity, inter-visibility with adjacent landscapes and presence of sensitive or rare landscape features. • Develop 5 point scale low to high sensitivity and assess each character area • Determines proportion of development that would not be suitable

  17. SUMMARY • Limits to resource mapping exercise • Cannot account totally for changes in regulatory regime, technology development, economics • Things may happen quicker than thought, offshore technology development for example • However given current knowledge, reliance on biomass, energy from waste and onshore wind is clear • 2010 timeframe vital to establish whilst planning for 2020 • We need an achievable target but one that represents a proportionate response to the challenge and secures benefits for ‘former Avon’

  18. So what do we need to consider in moving from the accessible resource to an achievable target? How do we make sure that the target is embedded within policy and practice? Over to you ……………

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