Carbon Counting Projects in the City of Edinburgh Council

Janice PauwelsHead of Sustainable Development

Department of Corporate Services

Edinburgh Vision- “to lead the most successful and sustainable city region in northern Europe by 2015 and sustain the highest quality of life of any UK city. Also

To achieve a carbon free Edinburgh by 2050

Climate Change/Carbon Drivers

Scottish Climate Change Bill

Proposed UK Climate

Change Bill

Energy Performance in

Buildings Directive

Single Outcome

Agreements

Carbon Reduction

Commitment

Carbon Management Plan

Changing Our Ways – Scotland’s Climate Change Programme’5 Key Themes – green enterprise, reducing landfill, renewable energy, low carbon economy, quality environment

Choosing our Future – Scotland’s Sustainable Development Strategy’A range of issues covered to contribute to a more sustainable future

Long standing

commitment to

Sustainable

Development and to

Climate Change

Climate Change – Some CEC Milestones

First major report on CC approved in Jun 06

DE Feasibility Study commissioned June 06

New Climate Change targets approved in October 06

DE Study launched Nov 06

Signatory to the Scottish Climate Change Declaration Jan 07

CC Framework Approved March 07

ESSB launched in May 07

Setting up of CC Cross Party Working Group in Nov 07

Completion of Carbon Mgt Programme April 08

Climate Change Targets

The Council approved a number of targets in October 2006: to “climate proof” all new Council strategies, programmes, plans and projects; to reduce all the Council’s own climate change emissions and in particular

carbon dioxide emissions by 20% by 2015; to reduce all the Council’s climate change emissions and in particular carbon

dioxide emissions by 30% by 2025; and to achieve a zero carbon Edinburgh economy by 2050

CLIMATE CHANGE FRAMEWORKApproved in March 2007

ADAPTATION

MITIGATION

PLANNING

DECENTRALISING ENERGY

CARBON ACCOUNTING/PROOFING

COMMUNITY PLANNING

Carbon Counting Project 1The ESSB

Basic Scale Developments

Developments of 1000sqm in floor area or more, 10

residential units or more or those occupying a site

area of 0.5 hectare or more

Larger Scale Development and Development

Frameworks / Master Plans

Higher standards will be sought in developments of 250 residential units or more or

non residential developments on sites of at least 1 hectare or 5000sqm of gross floor

area and in any ‘basic’ (residential or other) scale applications that are in the subject

of Development Framework or Master Plan Preparation

ESSB

Edinburgh Standards for Sustainable Building apply to all development in the city.Self assessment process through completion of a Sustainability Statement FormChecked by Planning Officers

Two Mandatory targets for Carbon to be met :Energy Efficiency –reduce predicted CO2 emissions by Buildings Emission Rating (BER) which attains a Target Emission Rating (TER) minus 5%On Site Renewable Energy – a minimum 10% of remaining energy requirements to be supplied by on –site renewable energy ( 20% in areas of major change).

This requirement in addition to the Energy Efficiency standard

Carbon Counting ESSB

Carbon Savings over Building

Standards 2007 (from 25 applications)

Carbon Savings over Building

Standards 2003 (from 25

applications)

Combined TER

9108914

kgCO2/m2/per

year

Combined

DER/BER amount

per area

6620291

kgCO2/m2/per

year

Extra Saving

2488623

kgCO2/m2/per

year

Approx 100 tonnes CO2 per App

200 Apps per annum could give

20,000 tonnes

ESSB Applications at 31.12.07

Applications Assessed 37

Basic Scale 22

Large Scale 15

Other 18

Residential 19

Other Pre applications 35

Renewable Energy Generation in Edinburgh (from 25 applications)

Solar hot water 7

Photo voltaic panels 5

Bio-mass 2

Ground source heat pumps 11

Wind turbines 1

Shared / CHP Systems 2SOLAR

PVW

GSHP

CHP

Carbon Counting Projects 2The Local Authority Carbon Management Programme

Identify and quantify options

Planning

Ste

ps

May Mar

Baseline, forecast and VAS

Finalise Strategy & Implementation Plan

Jul Sept Nov Jan

Ideas Sharing Conference

Initiation Workshop

Opportunities Workshop

Project Plan

Case for ActionPresentation

Mature draft SIP

Launch

StarterPack

Ongoing Support and Monitoring

Implementation

Final SIPInitial draft SIP

Programme Boards

Ten month programme/15 Scottish Local Authorities

Carbon related activities scoped in

Transport including fleet fuel consumption and business mileage,

Lighting including street lighting and stair lighting, Waste: municipal waste only Buildings including

– Council Buildings – all Council office premises, libraries, community centres, museums, residential centres,

– Edinburgh Leisure Properties – swimming pools, leisure centres, sport centres, gyms etc.,

– Schools (including PPP),– Council housing,

Building or Site

Building Type (required for benchmark comparison)

Category (required for breakdown pie chart)

Electricity

Total kWh per year

Cost (Based on

typical p / kWh table abov

e)

Gas

Total kWhper year

total for all building types including offices, leisure facilities and schools

      £0  

  Housing HOUSING   £0  

Council Offices Council - Town Halls CIVIC BUILDINGS 16,374,144 £818,707 24,192,552

Libraries Council - Libraries CIVIC BUILDINGS 1,636,704 £81,835 3,706,249

Primary Schools School - Primary (no pool)PRIMARY

SCHOOLS14,096,252 £704,813 41,396,111

Secondary Schools School - Secondary (no pool)SECONDARY

SCHOOLS12,826,258 £641,313 44,961,476

Leisure Centres and facilities

Leisure Centre (Dry) LEISURE 10,954,441 £547,722 24,413,753

Museums and Galleries Council - Museums CIVIC BUILDINGS 3,848,848 £192,442 7,410,763

Homes and Hostels Council - Care Homes SOCIAL SERVICES 4,649,508 £232,475 10,190,257

Crematoria Other MISC 234,983 £11,749 2,935,215

Misc Other MISC 4,445,397 £222,270 9,350,333

Bus Station Other CIVIC BUILDINGS 769,571 £38,479 987,872

Car parks Car Park - open CARPARKS 42,295 £2,115  

Theatres Other CIVIC BUILDINGS 1,780,275 £89,014 6,839,915

Software Programme provided by the Carbon Trust

BaselineIn 2005/06 CEC annual emissions of CO2 from buildings, transport and municipal waste was :

210,163 tonnes of carbon

Projecting from the baseline

emissions in 2008

predicted

to rise to

214,963 tonnes

Summary CO2 Emissions Breakdown

Transp.5%

Buildings31%

Streetlights8%

Waste Collected56%

Buildings 65,487

Transport 10,469

Street lighting 17,321

Waste 116,886

Emissions from Buildings make up 33% of the total CO2

emission with 65,487 tonnes.

Buildings CO2 Emissions Breakdown

SOCIAL SERVICES

6%

SECONDARY SCHOOLS

21%

PRIMARY SCHOOLS

23%

CIVIC BUILDINGS

29%

LEISURE 14%

MISC7%

Transport CO2 Emissions Breakdown

Car20%

Fuel80%

Emissions from Transport make up 5% of the total CO2

emission with 10,469 tonnes.

Edinburgh’s Target

LABaseline

Year

Reduction

Target

Reduction

Year

Barking &

Dagenham2004/2005 20% 2010

Brent 2004/2005 20% 2011

Derby 2004/2005 25% 2012

Isle of Wight 2004/2005 22% 2012

Lincoln 2004/2005 20% 2012

Sheffield 2005/2006 30% 2012

Westminster 2005/2006 20% 2020

Edinburgh 2005/2006 25% 2013

Total CO2 Emissions Per Employee*

0.000.501.001.502.002.503.003.504.004.50

2005

/06

2006

/07

2007

/08

2008

/09

2009

/10

2010

/11

2011

/12

2012

/13

2013

/14

2014

/15

To

nn

es o

f C

O2

Actual

Target

Carbon Footprint per Employee

Current: 3.8 Target : 2.3 by 2013

Cost of CarbonValue At Stake

0

2,000

4,000

6,000

8,000

10,000

12,000

14,000

16,000

18,000

20,000

2005/06 2006/07 2007/08 2008/09 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15

£'0

00 Total BAU

Total RES

Value At Stake

BAU: Business As Usual Scenario – energy cost to the Council would be £16.5 million in 2013.RES : Reduced Emission Scenario - energy costs to the Council as a result of the programme will be £10 million in 2013SAVING : Over £6.5 million or £28 million over the 5 years

( aggregated savings)

Composition of Value At Stake

Climate Change Levy

Energy Efficiency

Energy Price Rises

Fuel & business milessavings

Fuel Price rises (&business miles)

Further Projects

Carbon Proofing of Services – looking at the cost of carbon in service delivery and incorporating into Best Value

Participation in the Scottish Ecological Footprints Project: Development of the Resource Efficiency Action Programme Tool (REAP) to look at carbon modelling and scenarios for the 2050 target

Participation in the UK Local Carbon Impacts Programme (UKCLIPS) with 4 other Scottish Local Authorities to look at the cost of carbon in adaptation to impacts

Piloted energy awareness training