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Capital Energy Investment Project and Corporate Landlord Energy and Carbon Strategy

Minutes:

The Head of Operations – Community Services submitted a report, the purpose of which, was to provide an update to Cabinet on the Capital Energy Investment Project and seek approval from Cabinet to use the Re:fit Framework and to issue an Invitation to Tender for the works; as well as seeking approval for the Corporate Energy and Carbon Strategy 2019.

 

He advised that in February 2018, as part of the Medium Term Financial Strategy 2018-19 to 2021-22, council approved capital funding of £1.3m to enable the delivery of the Capital Energy Investment Project. This was to be funded from prudential borrowing with repayments made from energy savings generated as a result of the investment.

 

The Welsh Government proposed that the Council considers delivering carbon saving measures using the Re:fit programme. Re:fit is an energy performance framework produced by Local Partnerships LLP (which is a joint venture owned by HM Treasury and the Local Government Association and established in 2009) and specialises in delivering retrofit energy projects to public sector buildings. Re:fit have delivered projects across the UK but also to many Welsh Local Authorities, such as Cardiff, Swansea, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Merthyr Tydfil, to name a few.

 

The report then confirmed that following a review being undertaken of a number of options, Officers of the Council determined that using the Re:fit framework would provide the most appropriate Capital Investment delivery model.

 

22 buildings as shown in Appendix 1 were identified as delivering the most effective measures in respect of the above, and these were shown in Appendix 1 to the report and engagement with stakeholders is currently being undertaken

 

With regard to the Corporate Energy and Carbon Strategy 2019, the Head of Operations – Community Services, advised that similar to the Capital Energy Investment Project, Officers have been working to produce this so that it could help to improve management of energy and carbon emissions produced by the Council.

 

There were set key objectives to follow here and in order to meet these, a series of actions and activities have been identified and these were illustrated through 8 key areas shown in paragraph 4.2 of the report.

 

A copy of the Energy and Carbon Strategy proposed to be approved by Cabinet was attached to the report at Appendix 2.

 

The Head of Operations – Community Services concluded his submission by giving a resume of the report’s financial implications.

 

The Deputy Leader felt that this was a timely report and referred to the fact that BCBC has previously approved a £1.3m of capital funding for the Capital Energy Investment Project utilising prudential borrowing, with a payback period of 5 years. If this was fully realised then the project would basically be self-funded he added.

 

The Cabinet Member – Future Generations and Wellbeing advised that she was pleased to note that the Capital Energy Investment Project was being rolled out in some of our schools. She asked if they could be involved in some of the processing of work through their Eco Councils.

 

The Head of Operations – Community Services advised that this would be possibly and that he would liaise with stakeholders regarding this.

 

The Leader added that in the Annual Report item considered earlier in the meeting, there was a section on Eco friendly schools and he was pleased to be able to confirm, that most schools in the County Borough had achieved  Green Flag status, of which around 50% had achieved the highest possible level i.e. the Platinum award.

 

RESOLVED:                            That Cabinet:

 

·       Noted the content of the report;

·       Gave approval to use the Re:fit Framework and to issue an Invitation to Tender using the Re:fit framework to select the service provider to deliver the capital energy investment project and associated saving measures;

·       Delegated authority to the Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Resources to approve the award of the contract to the successful bidder under Scheme A of the Scheme of Delegation;

·       Approved the adoption and implementation of the Corporate Energy and Carbon Strategy 2019.

Delegated authority for any revisions required to the Corporate Energy and Carbon Strategy 2019 to be approved by the Corporate Landlord Project Board.

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