A Climate Emergency Demands New Solutions
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A Climate Emergency
We face an unprecedented global climate crisis requiring immediate action.
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A Cost of Living Crisis
Rising energy costs are putting immense pressure on households and communities.
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A Path to Net Zero That's Failing Us
Current approaches are insufficient to meet our climate goals in time.
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We Need More & Better Paths to & Beyond Net Zero
Rather than 'Waiting for the Cavalry' - or trying to change their minds...
What If There Was a Better Way?
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Circumvent the grid infrastructure gridlock
The 10+ Year wait for connections is too long for our climate emergency
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Support, transform and decarbonise the existing grid
Working with existing infrastructure while building the future
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Empower 100s of areas, and thousands of new clean energy projects
Instead of waiting for Westminster to act
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Make Solar Self Funding… for starters
Creating sustainable financial models that work for communities
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Return £100Ms each year into local economies
While creating good local jobs and building resilience
There a Better Way: Localeonomics
- Most Energy, up to 75%, generated centrally is 'Rejected' - ie lost
- This no longer inevitable - it does not apply to Energy Captured Locally - eg.Solar…
- Local Energy also incurs little or no infrastructural costs or delays
- 75% of 407 UK Local Authorities have formally declared a Climate Emergency
- The UKs 97 LA Local Energy Plans in various stages of preparation are blind to this and other key facts, including the true Localeonomics of 21st Century Energy - as they're mostly advised by experts trained and immersed in centralised thinking & assumptions
- It's strongly in the interest of Local Authorities to act - repatriating an increasing share of the UK £130B annual spend sent to global energy markets back into their local economy…
- While accelerating towards their Net Zero commitments as the same time…
- Supporting and increasingly greening the grid, while decarbonising locally
- Side-swerving the Grid-Gridlock and adding many New Paths to and beyond Net Zero
To do so we need to…
- Inspire & Empower Local Authorities, Communities & Households to take their own initiatives
- Make solar and clean energy systems pay for themselves - via new models, we can!
- Provide the means, information, analyses and tools - unimpeded by expertise framed only in the existing, centralised, paradigm
All instead informed and rooted in the new local energy paradigm… Enter…
Deep Impact 2.0…
Green Street: Deep Impact - While Building
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Resilience
Creating communities that can withstand energy price shocks and supply disruptions
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Independence
Freeing households and communities from dependence on centralized energy systems
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Community
Strengthening local bonds through shared purpose and collaborative action
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." - Buckminster Fuller
The Facts Have Changed... The Thinking Hasn't!
New Model Successfully Piloted in Sheffield
Doubled the number of solar & battery installation
In our pilot area in S11, showing the model works at scale
Halving the Total Cost
40%+ reduction making clean energy accessible to more households
Understanding Attitudes/Mindsets
Addressing the psychological barriers to adoption
Removing the Barriers to Adoption
Making the process simple and accessible for everyone
Creating a New Enabling Model
Building a framework that can be replicated across communities
The Green Streets Friction Free Process
Addressing the limiting factors:
- People's Time (they don't have much)
- Household Budget (cost of living crisis)
- Waste of time, effort & £££ - Distrust, Myths…
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Green Streets Club
Leading the Way: ACTIONS
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LEGs
Local Energy Groups Also… Energy, Water, Air Quality… MP, Mayor, LAEPs
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Pathfinders & Green Angels
Showing the Way
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Hub Members & CoFounders
Your Street, Neighbourhood, Town / Constituency
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Deep Impact Events
Your Town & Local Energy Harvest Festivals
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Volunteering
Your time & skills
Inspiring & Equipping Local Teams Bringing Together People, Ideas & Funding Providing the Expertise, Tools & Resources They Need
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