Energy and Net Zero Carbon portfolio update Cllr Gillian Wood - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Liverpool City Region Combined Authority Overview and Scrutiny Committee

Energy and Net Zero Carbon portfolio update

Cllr Gillian Wood Deputy Portfolio Holder Low Carbon & Renewable Energy

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0.5% Small Scale UK Solar Installs 15% of UK renewable energy capacity

(Includes EfW, onshore and offshore wind)

£370M /year

Business Energy Use (Not Energy Intensive Ind. & not transportation)

£36M

Local Authority Energy Spend

£950M

Petrol & Diesel Onshore, we have installed ~60 GWh * generation vs. an estimated capacity of 2000 GWh

*Sustainable Energy Action Plan

£540M / year

Domestic Fuel Bills

~£600M/y

In Road Tax

Social cost of carbon

£180M / y

~£180M

Network Charges

~£100M

Additional Charges including Climate Levy

1 in 9 Homes

Fuel Poverty: High Cost Low Income

13,300 Jobs in energy, utilities and low carbon related businesses

400 firms in Energy & Environmental Technologies and Services Sector

17% of local emissions

Industries subject to EU ETS

Net Zero Carbon 2040

• The Metro Mayor and Combined Authority has a stated ambition for LCR to be

net zero carbon by 2040

• We believe this is difficult but feasible and we have greater options
• We can envisage a pathway with today’s available and emerging technology

– Electrify and convert to Hydrogen the majority of domestic heating – Electrify transport and shift from car to walking and cycling – Create and use hydrogen as a principle transport and process fuel and methane replacement – Create large-scale storage capacity including batteries and hydrogen – Clean electricity generation from local sources including Tidal, Offshore Wind and solar – Substantial energy efficiency in homes and businesses – Replace methane with hydrogen and carbon capture and storage for our energy intensive industries – Replace diesel HGV’s with highway electrification, hydrogen and during transition, CNG – Introduce ship to shore power and emissions restrictions on marine and aviation turnarounds

LCR Hydrogen

Why is Hydrogen important to Liverpool City Region?

• Long History
• Assets already in the ground and in production
• Expertise in our companies, universities, regulators and government
• Ability to scale and mainstream
• Offshore Wind as a recent reference point

Two H2 Production facilities with pipeline networks

Home to leading H2 transport solutions

The LCR H2 Project Pipeline

Mersey Tidal

Current status

Early work has been carried out to investigate the potential for tidal energy to deliver:

• Clean and reliable energy for LCR carbon targets (net zero carbon by 2040)
• Energy for transformational sustainable growth (local businesses and citizens)
• Economic benefit through jobs, skills, employment prospects, fuel poverty alleviation
• Harness the environmental assets of the River Mersey and Liverpool Bay
• Social value through place-making and liveable environments
• Value for money

The work has shown that tidal energy is an opportunity worth investing further in.

Development of a robust evidence-based Outline Business Case (OBC) to inform and explore viability and inform decision making - parallels with work to establish benefits of HS2 / Northern Powerhouse Rail to the LCR. The OBC will be developed in line with the Green Book Supplementary Guidance on Delivering Public Value from Spending Proposals ("Treasury Guidance"), following the proposed "Five Case Model“ which includes the: 1. Strategic Case 2. Economic Case 3. Financial Case 4. Commercial Case 5. Management Case.

Plans for development

Lessons we are learning

• We need to create new partnerships and create common cause with our

businesses and communities

• We are all on a steep learning curve and at times leading the world
• Leading the decarbonization agenda brings risks and rewards
• We need to make zero carbon technologies visible and relevant to our

communities – and be able to answer the ‘how will I benefit’ question

• We need to deliver mainstreaming and scale rather than pilots

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