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A Smarter Energy Future for Wales?
- This consultation has completed. It ran from Monday, 20 July 2015 to Friday, 4 September 2015
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Response to the consultation
Evidence submitted in response to this Consultation
- SEFW Consultation responses booklet PDF 6 MB
- SEFW 01 Identical response from numerous respondents (Welsh only) PDF 816 KB
- SEFW 02 Identical response from numerous respondents PDF 798 KB
- SEFW 03 RenewableUK Cymru PDF 551 KB
- SEFW 04 Professor Ian Knight Cardiff University PDF 163 KB View as HTML (5) 30 KB
- SEFW 05 National Energy Action Wales PDF 395 KB
- SEFW 06 British Gas PDF 445 KB
- SEFW 07 Dr Richard Cowell, Cardiff University PDF 171 KB View as HTML (8) 37 KB
- SEFW 08 Citizen Advice PDF 246 KB View as HTML (9) 63 KB
- SEFW 09 Smart Energy GB PDF 150 KB View as HTML (10) 34 KB
- SEFW 10 Cardiff Community Energy PDF 120 KB View as HTML (11) 19 KB
- SEFW 11 Royal Town Planning Institute PDF 408 KB
- SEFW 12 Community Energy Wales PDF 184 KB View as HTML (13) 60 KB
- SEFW 13 Ofgem PDF 137 KB View as HTML (14) 20 KB
- SEFW 14 RWE npower PDF 223 KB View as HTML (15) 38 KB
- SEFW 15 Calor PDF 307 KB
- SEFW 16 Community Housing Cymru Group PDF 174 KB View as HTML (17) 47 KB
- SEFW 17 The Green Valleys (Wales) CIC PDF 245 KB
- SEFW 18 South Hook LNG Terminal Company Ltd PDF 160 KB View as HTML (19) 17 KB
- SEFW 19 Friends of the Earth Cymru PDF 173 KB View as HTML (20) 50 KB
- SEFW 20 Professor Gareth Wyn Jones PDF 254 KB View as HTML (21) 81 KB
- SEFW 21 Highview Power Storage PDF 624 KB View as HTML (22) 36 KB
- SEFW 22 Tidal Lagoon Power PDF 504 KB
- SEFW 23 Welsh Local Government Association PDF 248 KB
- SEFW 24 Natural Resources Wales PDF 255 KB View as HTML (25) 73 KB
- SEFW 25 World Wildlife Fund Wales PDF 184 KB View as HTML (26) 41 KB
- SEFW 26 National Grid PDF 143 KB View as HTML (27) 28 KB
- SEFW 27 Construction Industry Training Board Wales PDF 827 KB
- Additional information received during the inquiry
- Western Power Distribution PDF 2 MB
- Homebuilder Federation Wales PDF 165 KB
- University of Exeter PDF 199 KB
- Construction Industry Training Board Wales PDF 143 KB View as HTML (33) 24 KB
- Res Publica - After the Green Deal PDF 806 KB
- Scottish Power PDF 5 MB
- Scottish Power 2 PDF 2 MB
- Regen South West PDF 153 KB
- Abergwyngregyn Regeneration Company PDF 89 KB View as HTML (38) 17 KB
- National Trust PDF 103 KB View as HTML (39) 25 KB
- Ynni Padarn Peris PDF 163 KB
- Cardiff University PDF 224 KB
- Bridgend County Borough Council PDF 158 KB View as HTML (42) 24 KB
- Wrexham County Council PDF 13 MB
- British Gas PDF 567 KB
- Community Housing Cymru PDF 409 KB
Purpose of the consultation
The National Assembly for Wales’ Environment and Sustainability
Committee is undertaking an inquiry into a smarter energy future for Wales.
Purpose of this consultation
The purpose of this consultation is to
inform how the Committee believes energy policy in Wales needs to develop in
the next Assembly and beyond, in the context of meeting Wales’s commitments to
contribute to the prevention of global average temperatures rising more than 2°
Celsius.
Terms of reference
Starting from the basis that Wales needs to
rapidly reduce its carbon emissions if it is to contribute to the prevention of
global average temperatures rising more than 2° Celsius, and the need to
enhance energy security in Wales, we will aim to arrive at a view on:
- how Wales can achieve a smarter energy future,
including low carbon energy supply, energy demand management and energy
storage, at a sufficient pace to achieve the necessary reductions in
emissions;
- whether the current infrastructure and
regulatory framework can deliver these changes at the rate of change that
is necessary;
- the action that needs to be taken by citizens
and the public, private and third sectors; and
- the balance of devolved competence in this
area of policy.
Questions
The energy mix
- How can we decarbonise our energy system at a
sufficient pace to achieve the necessary reductions in emissions?
- What mixture of distributed generation
resources best meets Wales' renewable energy needs in respect to the
supply of a) electricity, b) gas, and c) heat?
The grid
- How does the grid distribution network in
Wales enable or restrict the development of a new smarter energy system?
- What changes might be needed in terms of
ownership, regulation, operation and investment?
Storage
- How can energy storage mechanisms be used to
overcome barriers to increasing the use of renewable energy?
Ownership
- To investigate the desirability and
feasibility of greater public and community ownership of generation,
transmission and distribution infrastructure and the implications of such
a change.
Energy efficiency and demand reduction
- How can the planning system and building
regulations be used to improve the energy efficiency of houses (both new
build and existing stock)?
- What would the environmental, social and
economic impacts be if Wales set higher energy efficiency standards for
new build housing? (e.g. Passivhaus or Energy Plus)
Communities - making the case for change
- How can communities, businesses and industry
contribute to transforming the way that Wales thinks about energy?"
Does the answer to this challenge lie in enabling communities to take
greater responsibility for meeting their future energy needs?
Disclosure of
Information
You can find further details about how we
will use your information at http://www.assemblywales.org/help/privacy/help-inquiry-privacy.htm. Please ensure that you have considered
these details carefully before submitting information to the Committee.
Further information
If you'd like any
further information, please contact the Clerk to the Committee.
Contact details
Should you wish to speak to someone regarding this consultation, please use the below contact details:
Environment and Sustainability Committee - Fourth Assembly
Welsh Parliament
Cardiff Bay
Cardiff
CF99 1SN
Email: Contact@senedd.wales
Telephone: 0300 200 6565