Councillor Sharon Galliford to move that this Council
(i) acknowledges the efforts that this Council is making to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote renewable energy;
(ii) further recognises
a) that very large financial setup and running costs involved in selling locally generated renewable electricity to local customers result in it being impossible for local renewable electricity generators to do so;
b) that making these financial costs proportionate to the scale of a renewable electricity supplier’s operation would create significant opportunities for local companies, community groups and councils to be providers of locally generated renewable electricity directly to local people, businesses and organisations, if they wished;
c) that revenues received by such local companies, community groups and councils that chose to become local renewable electricity providers could be used to help improve the local economy, local services and facilities and to reduce local greenhouse gas emissions;
(iii) supports the Local Electricity Bill, currently supported by a cross-party group of 236 MPs and which, if made law, would establish a Right to Local Supply which would promote local renewable electricity supply by making the setup and running costs of selling renewable electricity to local customers proportionate to the size of the supply company; and
(iv) informs the local media of this decision;
(v) writes to local MPs, asking them to support the Bill; and
(vi) writes to the organisers of the campaign for the Bill, Power for People, (at 8 Delancey Passage, Camden, London NW1 7NN or info@powerforpeole.org.uk) expressing its support.
Minutes:
It was moved by Councillor Sharon Galliford and seconded by Councillor Morgan Rise and unanimously
RESOLVED to
(i) acknowledge the efforts that this Council is making to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote renewable energy;
(ii) further recognise
a) that very large financial setup and running costs involved in selling locally generated renewable electricity to local customers result in it being impossible for local renewable electricity generators to do so;
b) that making these financial costs proportionate to the scale of a renewable electricity supplier’s operation would create significant opportunities for local companies, community groups and councils to be providers of locally generated renewable electricity directly to local people, businesses and organisations, if they wished;
c) that revenues received by such local companies, community groups and councils that chose to become local renewable electricity providers could be used to help improve the local economy, local services and facilities and to reduce local greenhouse gas emissions;
(iii) support the Local Electricity Bill, currently supported by a cross-party group of 236 MPs and which, if made law, would establish a Right to Local Supply which would promote local renewable electricity supply by making the setup and running costs of selling renewable electricity to local customers proportionate to the size of the supply company; and
(iv) inform the local media of this decision;
(v) write to local MPs, asking them to support the Bill; and
(vi) write to the organisers of the campaign for the Bill, Power for People, (at 8 Delancey Passage, Camden, London NW1 7NN or info@powerforpeole.org.uk) expressing its support.