Issue - meetings

Received a report proposing the adoption of an Energy Efficiency Programme across Council buildings, and seeking approval for the Council’s participation in the Carbon Trust’s ‘Carbon Management Programme’.

The draft Energy Efficiency Programme contained 23 energy saving projects, including installing a software system to accurately monitor energy consumption, implementing an invest-to-save programme of physical improvements to heating and cooling systems and running an energy awareness campaign for all staff.

Members noted that to enable implementation of the energy efficiency programme, a new ‘energy management system’ had been drafted that clarified responsibilities across the Council for dealing with energy bills, addressing energy consumption and implementing energy saving opportunities.

Agreed, in order to assist the Council achieve its Community Priorities of:

‘Making Barking and Dagenham Cleaner, Greener and Safer’, ‘Improving Health, Housing and Social Care’, ‘Regenerating the Local Economy’

and ‘Raising General Pride in the Borough’, to:

1)  Approve the draft Energy Efficiency Programme for delivering energy savings in Council buildings and note the need for any additional funding to be sought and agreed from external and internal resources before implementation;

2)  Approve funding of £100k to implement the first project in the programme – an energy data management  and monitoring system from the existing capital budget of Regeneration Initiatives - and the appropriate virement required;

3)  Approve the development of an ‘energy management system’ that outlines roles and responsibilities across the Council for managing bills, energy consumption and implementing energy saving opportunities; and

4)  Approve the Council’s (free) participation in the Carbon Trust’s ‘Carbon Management Programme’; and

5)  Note the transfer of the Sustainable Energy Officers from Spatial Regeneration to the Strategic Procurement Team.