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: simonleetaipei@hotmail.com or

Vanessa Ravenscroft at: vravenscroft@talktalk.net

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