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Report of the Corporate Director (Public Protection, Planning and Governance) on endorsement of the Strategy to deliver benefits from the changing energy sector.

The Strategy was endorsed and Officers would engage with colleagues from the Herts Local Enterprise Partnership to deliver its actions.

Report of the Corporate Director (Public Protection, Planning and Governance) on endorsement of the Strategy to deliver benefits from the changing energy sector.

(1)        The Decision Taken

RESOLVED:

That the Strategy be endorsed and Officers engage with colleagues from the Herts Local Enterprise Partnership to deliver its actions.

(2)        Reasons for the Decision

A grouping of three Local Enterprise Partnerships, known as Local Energy East, had prepared a strategy to unblock current challenges, in order to capitalise on local energy generation, storage, distribution and supply opportunities.

It predicated this on major challenges anticipated within the industry – rising demand from evolving markets, improving the unit cost of renewable energy, improving battery technology and a transition from fuel to electric vehicles etc.

The strategy described the East as well positioned to reap the economic, social and environmental benefits of the energy revolution.

Its action and targets therefore included investment in energy technology, job creation, enabling housing growth, decentralisation of the energy network, fuel poverty, electric transportation and low carbon behaviours.