DEBATE ENERGY
IN ASSOCIATION WITH:
GETTING ENERGISED FOR THE NET ZERO JOURNEY
Cleaner, greener business is rising on the agenda and the UN Climate Change Conference, COP26, is on the horizon. With the support of Lancashire Enterprise Partnership we brought together an expert panel to put forward the business case to engage in the clean energy agenda and to highlight the challenges and opportunities the commitment to net zero brings
Richard Slater
Lancashire Business View (chair) Ged Ennis
The Low Carbon Energy Company
Ged Heffernan Fern Innovation
PRESENT: Henri Murison
Northern Powerhouse
Lyndsay Roche Westinghouse Miranda Barker
East Lancashire Chamber of Commerce and Lancashire Enterprise Partnership Ged Ennis, The Low Carbon Energy Company
The start of the first lockdown was transformational. A lot of manufacturing businesses had time on their hands to start looking at reducing carbon properly. We’ve seen a significant increase in enquires and it’s not greenwashing.
Energy prices are rising significantly; legislation is changing significantly, and we’re trying to deliver to our customers a return on investment that would give paybacks of less than five years.
Once people understand, it’s a bit of a no-brainer. We have fielded £40m of enquiries in the last 12 months, which is up 50 per cent on the year before, bearing in mind we’ve just gone through a global pandemic. So, you can see the sea change.
What we need as an industry, and what we’ve just started to get, is a set framework in which to operate. We need to depoliticise the agenda so we’re not under threat of a changing government and changing policy.
We’ve targets that we’re being asked to meet now, put that framework in place and let people operate and the industry will sort itself out.
Ged Ennis
There are good businesspeople out there who will take the risky decisions that they need to, to make the investments, but you need consistency, and that’s what we’ve really struggled with. You can’t ask a business to make a potential 20-25-year investment on the back of something that might change in two years.
LANCASHIREBUSINESSVIEW.CO.UK
Prof Karl Williams UCLan
Rosie Connor JRC Roofing
Mike Taylor Electricity North West
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