NEWS Councils urged to back district heating ● Local authorities challenged to speed up energy measures
Local authorities have been challenged to speed up energy effi ciency programmes and increase the development of district heating schemes. The Committee on Climate Change (CCC), which advises the government, has produced a report detailing how councils can help reduce emissions by 20% before 2020.
The CCC said local authorities could have ‘signifi cant infl uence’ over key sources of carbon emissions and urged them to put energy effi ciency programmes in place for existing buildings and ‘ensure new builds are highly energy effi cient’. The report, How local authorities can reduce emissions and manage climate
risk, was commissioned by the Department of Energy and Climate Change. DECC said councils could do more to promote reduced energy consumption among residents and local businesses.
It recommended increased deployment of district heating schemes, but advised local authorities to avoid gas-fi red combined heat and power (CHP) schemes as these ‘will eventually become incompatible with national carbon budgets’. ‘Although local authorities have a unique role in developing and making district heating schemes commercially viable, only low carbon district heating (for example, supplied by waste-to-energy plants or low carbon power stations) should be pursued in the longer term,’ the report said. It added that the government should ‘seriously consider providing additional funding’ to help local authorities become Green Deal providers.
A district energy network serves the Olympics Park and Stratford in east London
However, it added that a number of barriers would have to be overcome ‘to ensure the benefi ts for local authorities are realised’.
The report added that major opportunities also exist for local authorities to help achieve emission reductions in the power sector: through local planning in approving renewables projects; by acting as champions for renewable energy generation; and by developing decentralised energy plans that include district heating schemes and small-scale low-carbon power plants. ‘The most important role local authorities can play in the residential buildings sector is through implementing home insulation measures,’ the report added.
www.theccc.org/reports/local-authorities
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