A Lot Done A Lot Left to Do

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A Lot Done A Lot Left to Do!

• Micropower Council Conference
• 29 March 2006
• Jan Devito
• Micropower Council

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My project will be complete when the Labour party
learns to love Peter Mandelson
a lot done, a lot left to do
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A Lot Done A Lot Left to Do

• Lots done
• Today
• More to do

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Looking Back

• 3 - 4 years ago

• Micropower???
• Major Blocks
• Connecting to the network
• Prohibitive cost of meters to sell power
• Outside ROC mechanism
• DGCG - Workstream 4
• Work of many bodies organisations on specific
  issues

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Looking Back

• 1 - 3 years ago

• G83 (Sept 2003)

• Cheaper meters (NHH) (Sept 2003)
• Entitled to ROCs (April 2004)

• Energy Act (2004)

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Today.

• Microgeneration Strategy LCBP
• Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill
• Targets
• Permitted development status
• Export reward mechanism
• HMG RO simplifications
• Obligation to promote renewable heat
• EEC expansion
• Two Scottish Bill proposals
• The Energy Review

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More to do.

• Micropower Council Programme of Further Work
• To fill in the detail
• To tackle further barriers promote further
  market transformation initiatives
• Currently six policy development areas

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More to do.

• Targets.

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More to do.

• Targets.
• Planning..
• Permitted development status (what qualifies)
• Positive Planning Policies

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More to do..

• Targets.
• Positive Planning..
• Fiscal Inequalities.
• Fiscal incentives.

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More to do..

• Targets.
• Positive Planning..
• Fiscal Issues
• Consumer Assurance

Philip Wolfe
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More to do..

• Targets.
• Positive Planning..
• Fiscal Issues
• Consumer Assurance
• Renewable Heat..

Neil Schofield
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More to do..

• Targets.
• Positive Planning..
• Fiscal Issues
• Consumer Assurance
• Renewable Heat..
• ROCs (etc), Export Reward Metering

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More to do.ROCs

• ROO 2006/7 DTI changes
• ROCs application for accreditation
• Kirklees Councils response to RO Review

100,000 microgenerators applications 200m
pile of paper (double sided)
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More to do.ROCs

• ROO 2006/7 DTI changes
• ROCs application for accreditation
• Kirklees Council response to RO Review
• Type Approvals/pre-determined estimates
• Admin burden of meter read in timescale
• Interaction with aggregation
• Certainty of value

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More to do.Export Reward

• Simple
• High value
• No export meter
• No data collection/ processing

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More to do.Export Reward
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Always in 100/year
Always out worthless (?)

• Impact on system identical in both cases
• Value depends on life style NOT system impact

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In Summary

• Various initiatives taking us in the right
  direction
• .a lot left to do!