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PLANNING AND PARTNERSHIPS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Cambridge Renewable Energy Study
ESD in partnership with Global to Local undertook a study to identify
the potential for renewable energy in large scale developments in
the City and vicinity. A key aspect of the work was engagement of
partners and stakeholders (including developers and landowners)
to consider the land-use planning and technological issues relating
to renewable energy integration. (Cambridge City Council, 2003).
Kustendil Municipality, Bulgaria
ESD has developed an integrated, bottom-up package for working with
local and regional authorities to identify and finance sustainable
energy activities. Called LSEP (Local Sustainable Energy Planning),
ESD works with local authorities to identify key stakeholders in
the area, define their priorities and needs, determine current energy
supplies and utilisation, list and quantify renewable energy, cogeneration
and energy efficiency options, work with stakeholders to look at
potential sustainable energy options, examine the impact on employment,
social services, greenhouse gas emissions and other key factors,
prioritise investments and other interventions in sustainable energy,
and obtain finance for such.
ESD Bulgaria, working with ESD UK staff, began the LSEP process
in Kustendil Region and Municipality in Bulgaria in 2000 with UK
DFID financial support. Working with local stakeholders, ESD helped
the community to develop a five year sustainable energy plan with
over 20 ‘interventions’. Of these, the municipal council
and local businesses, raised the equity to convert all municipal
buildings from heavy oil heating to biomass heating, purchasing
sustainably produced wood from some 40 local farmers, thereby stimulating
the local rural economy and saving the municipality £20,000
per year in fuel costs.
They alsoidentified and financed the conversion of two secondary
school heating systems to biomass, supplemented with locally produced
solar water heaters. The municipality and local business community
are now raising the capital to finance a geothermal heat distribution
network supplying over 100 households and businesses, as well as
local public housing, health facilities, schools and an old folks
home. ESD Bulgaria has helped them secure long-term finance from
the Bulgarian Commercial Bank, and they look to save over £5
million in heating costs.
North Devon and Torridge renewable energy action plan
This project provided the local authority and its communities with
a realistic action plan to develop the renewable energy potential
of the area in a way that benefited the local economy and community
without being detrimental to the high quality of the landscape.
The work involved a renewable energy resource assessment of the
area, the evaluation of social, economic and environmental implications
of renewable energy developments, the consultation and involvement
of the local community and, finally, the preparation of an action
plan for the implementation of renewable energy projects. Client:
North Devon and Torridge Council, 2001.
Renewable energy and land use planning in the eastern region
ESD was part of a team working for the Government Office for the
East of England preparing regional assessments of the potential
for providing energy from renewable sources and establishing draft
regional targets for renewable energy. A key part of this was the
setting up and implementation of a dialogue between local planning
authorities, regional stakeholders and energy producers/ trade associations
to better enable the implementation of renewable energy projects
on the ground. Client: Government Office East of England, 2002.
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