when will the maps be published?

Has this been supported by T&W council

will there be instructions on operating the map function

At the bottom of Shropshire Council's home page (https://www.shropshire.gov.uk/) is a maps symbol that takes you to the maps gallery. The energy maps are on the second page of maps

No

Thanks Dan - got it now.

Sorry can you put that in terms of maximum GW capacity required as solar and wind are not baseload

Please can you tell us the GW capacity we need not GWHr

The XLinks project is scheduled to come online in 2027 and supply 8% of UK's demand. Has this been factored in? https://electrek.co/2021/09/27/the-worlds-longest-subsea-cable-will-send-clean-energy-from-morocco-to-the-uk/

A lot of assumptions and many figures which would need careful review and checking. Not possible to assess these quantitative calculations without review by specialists in electricity supply and the grid.

A good YouTube talk here about it: https://youtu.be/iJunxkln578

Might there also be an opportunity to export to the Black Country and Birmingham as they are constrained due to population density?

Was the analysis done by Encraft for the Marches Energy Strategy which looked at grid constraints used in your analysis?

can we focus on talk.

So the question is what provides Shropshire with its power for 90% of the time solar is not and 80% when wind is not for Shropshire to remain 100% zero carbon

Dave - is the study from MEA you mentioned published please? Thanks.

In response to question on what provides the power when the sun is not shining and the wind is not blowing - This study looked at the generation we need for ZCS, but did not consider how we store that energy. Energy storage and balances of supply and demand are a big topic that with a national grid we can consider more broadly, including eg nuclear base load, batteries, storage reservoirs etc etc

What about micro and pico hydro on many of our rivers to give baseload- where are the studies of this potential with in Shropshire carbon neutral

The BC Heat & Wind Heat Network project is struggling to get into the draft Neighbourhood Plan (despite Town Council approval). As applies with housing, we need a County Council policy that imposes the development of renewable energy on Town & Parish councils.

There are studies showing the viability of using both Wind and Sun across a UK typical year to show that the energy from both sources complement one another Winter/Summer. Of course there will be occasional gaps but this % variation is still small relative to the total energy usage. Energy storage of some form will improve the situation. However if these energy differences are within the present day/night energy demand difference then its not much difference to the operational grid levels that are managed every day at present.

Will we have copies of the slides? Reocrding of the meeting?

One thing so far not mentioned is the urgent need to engage with the local community in order to ensure acceptance and support from the majority rather than the knee jerk rejection we have experienced in the past in this region. Therefore supporting the Big Solar CoOp type of approach that allows local residents to be shareholders in energy generation. The results that Dave G is just discussing from BC are heartening but we need to do it across the county and Marches. So its geographical , legal and planning, electricity grid and community co operation that are all needed. I should say that I am also working on Big Solar CoOp projects in this region.

https://www.tcpa.org.uk/Handlers/Download.ashx?IDMF=ebf95a2f-490a-43ce-b2d0-73acb9b8b4fd

how do you put your hand up

There's an interesting scheme to map existing power generation using OpenStreetMaps framework here: https://openinframap.org/#10.12/52.8905/-1.5871/L,P,S,W . It might be useful to work with them

Has anyone any knowledge of a 'run-of-river' type hydro installations. I've often thought of our (small) River Kemp with a tethered, FLOATING hydro unit (to avoid issues of flood conditions, with mesh intake to safeguard water life, a funnel intake (Venturi effect, increasing power) and a helical blade inside. Could that work on a larger scale? You could have a line of them close to an electricity user. Dave

dave L, I looked into this last year couldn't find anything in run of river hydro that's worth installing..

Re green hydrogen - a proportion of the A49 HGV traffic is from a small number of non-Shropshire companies which could be ‘targeted’ to increase Chris’s figures.

Thanks Chris, a very useful & interesting seminar..

Useful report , well done

Big thank you to all involved, particularly Chris Deaves and Natalie. Excellent afternoon. Dave L

very good session thanks very much to all.

Well done, it was good to be at the beginning of better things to come

Was the map link Dan Wrench mentioned get shared? https://shropshire.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=e3b884cadead4965a0462242a1bc62c0