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Local Energy Plan for Brae July 2018 A Local Energy Plan for Brae July 2018 This Local Energy Plan has been developed to enable the Brae community to look at its existing and future energy needs in terms of power, heat and transport and determine where it sees priorities for action. A separate non‐technical summary document is also available that provides an overview of the plan. The development of the plan is supported by Delting Community Council and has been led by a steering group of residents and representatives from Local Energy Scotland, Home Energy Scotland and Shetland Islands Council. The development of the plan has been funded as part of the COBEN project (COmmunity BENefits of Civic Energy), an EU Interreg (North Sea Region) funded programme with fifty per cent match funding through the Scottish Government’s Community and Renewable Energy Scheme (CARES). CARES is delivered by Local Energy Scotland. Technical support and plan development has been undertaken by Wood Environment & Infrastructure Solutions UK Limited. Community consultation support has been provided by Beyond Green Advisors Limited. Table of Contents 1. Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 About Local Energy Plans ........................................................................................................ 1 1.2 Overview of ‘whole system’ approach .................................................................................... 1 1.3 Aims and objectives ................................................................................................................ 2 2. Local Infrastructure ......................................................................................................................... 3 2.1 Electricity ................................................................................................................................. 3 2.1.1 Strategic Electricity Provision .......................................................................................... 3 2.1.2 Local Electricity Provision ................................................................................................ 4 2.2 Heat ......................................................................................................................................... 4 2.3 Water ...................................................................................................................................... 4 2.4 Transport ................................................................................................................................. 4 3. Characterisation of local area ......................................................................................................... 5 3.1 Population of Brae .................................................................................................................. 5 3.2 Employment and journey to work .......................................................................................... 6 3.3 Residential ............................................................................................................................... 7 3.3.1 Residential Property Overview ....................................................................................... 8 3.3.2 Estimate of fuel poverty levels from Scottish Government statistics ............................. 8 3.4 Non‐residential ....................................................................................................................... 9 3.5 Transport ............................................................................................................................... 10 3.5.1 Domestic Ownership ..................................................................................................... 10 3.5.2 Public Transport ............................................................................................................ 11 3.5.3 Commercial Vehicles ..................................................................................................... 11 3.5.4 Electric Vehicles ............................................................................................................ 12 3.6 Environment .......................................................................................................................... 12 3.6.1 Summary of environmental designations and other relevant heritage items ............. 12 3.6.2 Estimated solar resource .............................................................................................. 13 3.6.3 Estimated wind resource .............................................................................................. 13 3.6.4 Estimated hydro resource ............................................................................................. 13 3.6.5 Estimated biomass resource ......................................................................................... 14 3.6.6 Geothermal ................................................................................................................... 14 3.6.7 Marine Renewables Resource....................................................................................... 14 4. Energy Baseline ............................................................................................................................. 14 4.1 Electricity ............................................................................................................................... 14 4.1.1 Domestic Electricity ............................................................................................................. 15 4.1.2 Non‐Domestic Electricity ..................................................................................................... 15 4.2 Heat demand......................................................................................................................... 15 4.2.1 Domestic Heat Demand ....................................................................................................... 15 4.2.2 Non Domestic Heat Demand ............................................................................................... 15 4.3 Transport ............................................................................................................................... 15 4.4 Overall Energy Demand ........................................................................................................ 16 4.5 Future changes ...................................................................................................................... 16 5. Options Appraisal .......................................................................................................................... 17 5.1 Scottish context .................................................................................................................... 17 5.1.1 Financial support for renewables ................................................................................. 18 5.2 Local context ......................................................................................................................... 18 5.2.1 Local Planning Policy and Guidance .............................................................................. 19 5.2.2 Draft Supplementary Guidance .................................................................................... 21 5.2.3 Other Applicable Documents ........................................................................................ 22 5.3 Community commentary on areas of action ........................................................................ 24 5.3.1 Community Workshops ....................................................................................................... 24 5.4 High level technology review ................................................................................................ 27 6. Review of local options ................................................................................................................. 29 6.1 Energy Saving Measures and Educational Framework ......................................................... 29 6.1.1 Energy Efficiency Awareness and Support .................................................................... 29 Proposed Action Point #1 ............................................................................................................. 31 6.1.2 Energy tariffs and market switching ............................................................................. 31 Proposed Action Point #2 ............................................................................................................. 31 Proposed Action Point #3 ............................................................................................................. 31 6.1.3 Promotion of energy efficiency ..................................................................................... 31 6.2 Energy efficiency measures .................................................................................................. 31 Proposed Action Point #4 ............................................................................................................. 32 6.3 Small Scale Renewable Generation ...................................................................................... 33 6.3.1 Small scale wind ............................................................................................................ 33 Proposed