Meeting of the Intelligent Energy APPG on Intelligent Energy Title: ‘Taking the carbon out of heat’ - further details

The following are further details about next Wednesday's meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Intelligent Energy on 'Taking the carbon out of heat.’

The event will look at how to decarbonise the 20% of emissions that comes from heating the UK’s 28 million homes. A Policy Exchange report last year, ‘Too Hot to Handle’ highlighted that the previous Government’s plan to decarbonise heating by fitting electric heat pumps in most homes by 2050 would cost about £300 billion.

All in all costing as much as £12,000 per household to deliver the plans to reduce carbon emissions from domestic heating. Before 2050 around 26 million homes will each require new low carbon installations – the equivalent of ten Milton Keynes’ each year.

This event will explore options on how to do this in a cost effective and timely manner.

Peter Aldous MP, Chair of the Intelligent Energy APPG, said: "It will be difficult to meet our renewable generation targets, let alone our decarbonisation targets, without looking at the carbon impacts of our heat use. We need to apply the same effort to decarbonising heat as has been applied to electricity."

Speakers:

Neil Schofield, Head of Sustainable Development, Worcester Bosch – totally hooked on gas. Need to decarbonise using biogas, synthetic natural gas and ultimately hydrogen

Jenny Hill, Head of Buildings, Industry and Bioenergy, Committee on Climate Change - Heat decarbonisation policy – meeting carbon budgets and the Clean Growth Strategy

Dr Tim Rotheray, Director, ADE – role of district heating in decarbonisation

Dave Pearson, Director, Star Renewable Energy – A sectoral approach to heat decarbonisation using large river source heat pumps

Andrew Haslett, Chief Engineer, Energy Technologies Institute - Domestic retrofits - immediate and longer term challenges and opportunities

Biographies:

Peter Aldous is the Member of Parliament for the Waveney constituency in North Suffolk, and has been the MP since being elected in the 2010 General Election. In Parliament Peter’s work has focussed on energy policy, reform of the Common Fisheries Policy, support for small businesses, housing and local health issues.

Peter is the Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Intelligent Energy which acts to develop among parliamentarians and key opinion formers a deeper understanding of energy efficiency technologies and processes through parliamentary activity, public information and broad political debate.

Neil Schofield is Head of Sustainable Development at Worcester Bosch. Neil has been in the heating industry for many years, starting with British Gas and for the last 25 years with Worcester Bosch Group. He has focused for a number of years on Government Legislation affecting the Heating Industry within the Gas, Oil and Renewable sectors. Was very involved with the move to condensing boilers, RHI and ECO. He represents the Industry on a number of working groups and trade bodies.

Jenny Hill, Head of Buildings, Industry and Bioenergy, Committee on Climate Change and manages the Committee’s work programmes on buildings, industry and bioenergy. She is currently focused on the response to the Clean Growth Strategy along with an update of the CCC’s 2011 Bioenergy Review, scheduled for Autumn 2018. This follows on from four years as analytical lead on heat decarbonisation, including the 2016 report, ‘Next steps for UK heat policy’, the heat scenario analysis for the 2015 Fifth Carbon Budget advice and other statutory advice such as the June Progress Reports.

Prior to joining the CCC secretariat, Jenny was a consultant in the Environmental Policy team at Amec (formerly Entec), advising the European Commission and other clients on technical aspects of climate change and air quality, economic valuation and chemicals regulation. She holds an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College, and a first class honours degree from Cambridge University.

Dr Tim Rotheray, Director, ADE. Tim was appointed Director of the Association for Decentralised Energy in August 2013 having previously led the team as Head of Policy and Communications. Tim is responsible for the development and implementation of the Association’s vision for the energy system and oversees the Association’s strategic relationships with members, government, regulators and wider stakeholders.

Tim joined the ADE as policy manager at the beginning of 2010 from the Micropower Council where he also held a policy role. During his time in the sustainable energy sector, Tim has also worked for the National Assembly for Wales where he researched the renewable energy potential and barriers in Wales.
In his role as board member Tim provides strategic direction to the sector's European trade representatives Euroheat and Power and Cogen Europe while also contributing to Government's district heating and Renewable Heat Incentive industry groups, and the CBI's energy policy committee.

In his spare time Tim enjoys cycling and has completed the Prudential RideLondon; a 100 mile route.

Dave Pearson, Director, Star Renewable Energy. With engagement in the cooling industry dating back to 1989 school projects, Dave has worked for Star Refrigeration full time since 1999. In 2008 as Director of Innovation he led the business’s drive into clean heating whereby the waste heat from the compression cycle is harnessed and the business delivered the world’s largest high temperature (90C) river source heat pump in Drammen, Norway which reduced the combustion of gas by 85% thereby delivering cleaner, cheaper heat.

With uptake of similar projects in the UK somewhat slow, despite significant focus from the Renewable Heart Incentive, Star formed a targeted business segment called Star Renewable Energy (SRE) which dave leads. SRE have supported numerous case studies in the UK and some smaller projects have commenced and will shortly include heat from the River Clyde for part of Glasgow. Dave is Chairman of the Heat Pump Industry representation to the Brussel’s “Renewable Heating and Cooling Platform” and has recently taken up the Chair of CeeD-Scotland, a business to business knowledge sharing forum with over 200 members.

A strong advocate of low emission heating and cooling, Dave sees huge opportunities in harvesting waste heat and river heat in the UK. “The Thames alone could heat 2 million homes with no local emissions of NOx and CO2”. However he recognises that we need a full systems approach with cognisance of “intelligent power utilisation” (demand side management) and integration of cooling (the only rising demand of utility in our society).

Andrew Haslett FREng, Chief Engineer, Energy Technologies Institute. Andrew joined the ETI as Strategy Director in 2008 and has been the Chief Engineer since 2014. His background includes the development and operation of large chemical process plant, innovation in effect products, technology strategy development and systems analysis.

At the ETI he is responsible for technical capability and quality, and innovation ambition. This covers the whole range of energy use, distribution and supply technologies, on topics as diverse as the soil carbon effects of energy crops, consumer energy use behaviour and building efficiency improvements. His particular interest is the holistic analysis of potential future UK energy systems and the contribution of different technologies to an affordable, secure, sustainable and equitable system that meets the needs of UK residents and businesses.

Time/Date: 10.00-11.30 am, Wednesday 22 November 2017
Venue: Committee Room 19, House of Commons, SW1