Farm Renewables Overview: the political and environmental picture - Oliver Harwood (CLA)

Renewable Energy Event

Thanks to our sponsors:• Fisher German• Farming Futures• and of course the CLA

Renewable options for rural business

Oliver HarwoodChief SurveyorCLA

Background

• Energy prices on upward trend• Increasing regulation on carbon emissions• Market pull for carbon accreditation• Increasing financial support for renewables

=• Market opportunities

Oil and Gas supplies

Electricity supplies

The Rural Menu

What works for you (and your banker) ?• Energy efficiency• Wind?• Solar?• Biofuels? • Energy Crops?• Biomass heat?• Hydro? • Biogas?

Energy efficiency

It is boring, but:• Energy audits and metering• Insulation of buildings• Switching to low energy equipment• Management (cleaning, maintenance etc)• Servicing and settings• Employee training and commitmentThe cheapest unit of energy is the one you don’t buy

Next steps: CLA lobbying

• Working with a wide coalition, ten years of lobbying• Energy Act 2008 includes

– Double ROCs for microgeneration and biomass CHP– Double ROCs for biogas– 1.5 ROCs for straight biomass electricity

• Smaller scale renewable electricity (up to 5MW or three large turbines) from April – arguing about the rates!

• New incentives for renewable heat - widescale biomass heat use, and biogas fed into the gas grid from 2011

Next steps: CLA Advice

Three detailed handbooks• Biomass and woodfuel as an enterprise• Wind farms and wind energy as an enterprise• Biogas: anaerobic digestion as an enterprise

Provide background and reference information on the costs and benefits of the technologies.

Tailored advice• CLA advice on the legal, taxation, planning, financial

support and practicalities of investment in renewables available regionally and in London.

Proposed Heat Incentive (1)

Proposed Heat Incentive (2)

Proposed Heat Incentive (3)

Contact

Oliver Harwood MA (Cantab) FRICSChief SurveyorCountry Land and Business Association (CLA)16 Belgrave SquareLondonSW1X 8PQT 0207 235 0511e oliver.harwood@cla.org.uk