energise hastings full presentation 29 jan 2010
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Energise Hastings
Saturday 29th January 2010
Southwater Area Community Centre
Welcome!
10.30 the story so far Chantal Lass HBC
10.40 Claremont Art Space Caroline Le Breton
10.50 Energy grants update Maureen Brown
11.00 HEAT Simon Lee &
Vanessa Ravenscroft
11.10 Biogas & solar Richard Watston
11.20 Q & A
11.40 Refreshments and networking
12.10 Plenary – the way forward
Southwater Area Community Centre
Hastings Trust, Robertson Street
The Bridge
Claremont Art Space
2002 2005
Side façade 2009
Battens: 75mm x 50mm horizontal treated timber at 600 centres.
Windows Rationel Aldus
Coping stones: Supreme Concrete once weathered precast concrete with weather drips on mortar bed with ledcore DPC and steel brackets
Insulation Knauf Universal Slab CS48 glass mineral wool Membrane: Rubbershield Pro Breather membrane.
Wood Cladding: Western Red Cedar cladding. 25 x 150 (2ex) sawn featheredge. Rother Valley Timber.
Materials Final Cost breakdown
windows 1900
insulation 1650
structural 4000
wood cladding 4310
scaffold 4200
fire treatment 1145
Total 17205
Energy Grants Update
Maureen Brown
Hastings Borough Council
Energise Hastings Southwater Area Community
Centre St Leonards
29th January 2011
Hastings Energy Advice Team Ltd
About HEAT
• An independent company that draws on the Government’s ‘Big Society’ concept and aims to promote social enterprise.
• Providing impartial advice to individuals, the communities and businesses of Hastings and surrounding towns and villages on:
– energy efficiency, – micro and community renewable
generation and – Sustainable Development– Grants and funding
“Government on its own cannot fix every problem. We are all in this together. We need to draw on the skills and expertise of people across the countryas we respond to the social, political and economic challenges Britain faces.” Building a Big Society David Cameron
Hastings Energy Advice Team Ltd
Social EnterpriseClimate change is happening • The UK climate is changing and we will potentially experience colder winters. • The cost of traditional fuels to heat our homes is increasing.
Hastings Energy Advice Team Ltd
To adapt, society must change
It’s to our benefit to manage this change locally, providing a hub to:
•educate local suppliers and installers and implement solutions using local resources
•engage society, raise public awareness of sustainability
•change energy usage in our homes and businesses
•modernise existing structures and promote sustainable behaviour
What we do• Staffed by qualified energy advisors
• Provide face to face or telephone advice on:
– Climate Change, – Eco efficiency and – Energy generation products– Grants and funding
• Workshops and presentations to the community on climate change, eco efficiency and energy generation products.
• Encourage and provide Assistance for community teams in initiating and running community projects.
• Providing sustainable development advice and assistance to businesses
Hastings Energy Advice Team Ltd
Sustainable Business Advice
The challenges for Businesses
• Ever tighter employment and environmental regulation
• Increasing energy costs
• Increasing costs of natural resources
• Increasing waste disposal costs
• Climate change
• The recession
• Growing customer expectations
• Growing client expectations
Hastings Energy Advice Team Ltd
How HEAT can help businessesHastings Energy Advice Team Ltd
Improve your employment policies and practices to build staff loyalty and improve productivity
Develop robust environmental policies and practices that reduce your environmental impact, cut costs, find new revenue streams and increase company profit
Cont….
• Energy management
• Waste management and recycling
• Water management
• Improving building performance
• Supply chain management
• Driving sustainability through your core business
Hastings Energy Advice Team Ltd
Thank you!
Hastings Energy Advice Team Ltd
For more information about HEAT please contact:
Simon Lee on at: [email protected] or
Vanessa Ravenscroft at: [email protected]
Positive Energy (Sussex)
Community Biogas Proposal
Biogas plants and district heating
Benefits of Community Biogas
• Reduces quantity of waste going to landfill.• Less landfill gas (methane) produced.• Less food waste - reduces problems of rodents /
seagulls at the landfill site.• Turns waste into useful power source (gas,
electricity or heat).• Fits with ‘Big Society’ ambitions of Government.
Waste - Hastings (only):30,000 houses ~ 15,000 tons of waste = 7,500 tonnes of food/paper waste
Include businesses, hospitals, schools = 7,500 tonnes bio-degradable waste
Include garden/landscaping waste = 20-25,000 tonnes per year (?)
A very rough estimate!
This plant would handle 13,000 tons of bio-waste per year
The reality
Plot size 80 m2 x 30 m2
Pebsham Countryside Park, showing the landfill site and water treatment works
There are 3 potential sites:
1. Southern Water Waste Water Treatment works – WWT- space permitting
2. The former Biffa composting area in front of the WWT
3. The bunded area with hard standing behind the former Reprotech site
Could the land-raise site support a solar park as well as a biogas chp plant? Wind turbines? As identified in the Element Energy Carbon Reduction report commissioned by HBC.
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Questions & Answers
Tea, coffee, and networking
Return at 12.10 for the plenary:
The Way Forward for Energise Hastings
Concluding Remarks