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Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: George Martin

Commercial is mentioned in the first sentence and then forgotten. Commercial and industrial sites are often the biggest and most immediate opportunity for decentralised solutions.

UK industrial electricity prices are 4-5 times those of the US (pre-Trump) and 50% higher than Germany. If we want to retain industries and jobs like car manufacturing in Warwickshire, or Aga, etc, then making decentralised renewable energy generation (and energy efficiency) easy is fundamental!

b) should allow for the possibility of going beyond the development site.

Affordability is likely to be a function of the business model. It is easy for a property developer to argue a scheme is unaffordable when a specialist ESCO or similar would have no problem. Attitude to risk (and ability to manage this) is a key factor – but in my limited experience easy for planning consultants and developers to exploit to get the answer they want.

Need to check whether this is in scope of the UK Planning System, but for non-domestic sites, on average 80% of the energy demand is not for buildings per se – it will be for industrial processes. These should be included within scope of any reviews as these are where the major benefits and potential sources of waste heat come from (for use in local heat networks for example).

The section on decentralised energy systems is good but it might make sense to reorder the sections to put support for this before section 7.1 to put it in context.