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Please make sure you have read all the notes carefully before you start to fill in the application form. This application form can either be completed by hand or electronically - it is available on the Planning homepage at www.scotland.gov.uk/planning. Please complete all five sections. The deadline for submitting applications is 29 August 2007. An acknowledgement letter will be sent to the person who has completed this form.
1 Please provide a name and contact details of the lead organisation responsible for this work.
Name | Geoffrey Tudor |
Job title | Director |
Organisation | Aberdeen Heat & Power Company Ltd |
Address | 59 Rubislaw Den South, Aberdeen, AB15 4BA |
Telephone | 01224 317877 |
Fax | |
Email | geoffrey.tudor@virgin.net |
2 If this is a joint application, please list the other partners who had a key role. You should also inform your partners that you are nominating the project for an award.
1 Aberdeen City Council | 2 Combined Heat & Power Association |
3 Integrated Energy Utilities | 4 Community Energy Services |
5 | 6 |
3 Tick one nomination category
Title of entry | Aberdeen Heat & Power |
Please complete the form on the following pages by providing a brief summary of the piece of work you have entered. You must also conclude with a key reason as to why you think this work merits an Award. Only the two A4 pages supplied here can be used and your text must fit within the boxes. The font size should be no less than 12pt.
The judging criteria are set out below. Please tick only the key criteria relevant to your entry:
You must describe, in your written submission, how the criteria which you have ticked relate to your project.
Description of project
Aberdeen Heat & Power Co Ltd ( AHP) has developed and installed two combined heat and power ( CHP) schemes and is well advanced on a third. Development at each scheme comprises a CHP plant, the heat distribution system, and the installation of heating equipment (the internals) in each flat. Stockethill : supplies heat and hot water to 288 flats, including sheltered accommodation, in four 19-storey blocks. 210kW gas powered generator in separate building. Hazlehead : 300kW generator installed in the former underground boiler room of Hazlehead Academy. Heat and hot water supplied to the school, 4 multi-storey blocks with 184 flats, 45 sheltered housing units, swimming pool and separate sports facility. Electricity is supplied direct to the school by private wire. Seaton : Heat and hot water will be supplied to 503 flats, some sheltered, in 6 multi-story blocks, to a sports changing facility, and to the Council's beachfront complex comprising ballroom, leisure centre and ice-rink. The CHP plant is located in a new building which also accommodates the changing facilities. Currently 1mW gas powered generator with second to be installed. Plans in hand to install 2mW generator and convert all three to biomass. |
Describe the background to the project
The project was developed in response to the commitment of Aberdeen City Council ( ACC) to Local Agenda 21 and to the requirement to comply with the Home Energy Conservation Act 1995. ACC had adopted an Affordable Warmth Policy in 1999 and recognised that many of its tenants suffer from fuel poverty. The project also emerged from work undertaken by ACC beginning in 2000 in response to the Government's and the Scottish Executive's consultation documents on climate change. That work was being led by a chartered planner who is now on the Board of AHP. AHP was established as an independent not-for-profit company with powers to borrow capital and trade in electricity. |
What are the aims and objectives of the project?
To improve the energy efficiency of as many as possible of ACC's 4,500 multi-storey flats most of which were heated by electric storage heating. Specific objectives of the project are: 1. to reduce fuel poverty 2. to reduce emissions of CO2 3. to provide training and employment opportunities in heating installation and maintenance 4. to ensure associated infrastructure is integrated with the local environment 5. to provide a safe and reliable heating/hot water system 6. to ensure capital costs were affordable to the Council |
Over what timescale has the project been developed?
AHP was established as a company in 2002. Stockethill scheme commenced in December 2003 and was completed in May 2005 Hazlehead scheme commenced in summer 2005. Work to supply the flats, school and swimming pool was completed by summer 2006. Supply pipes extended to the sports facility pending its completion. Work at Seaton commenced in 2006 and is ongoing. The combined CHP and changing facility building was completed in April 2007 and 300 flats have so far been connected and are receiving heat and hot water. ACC's beach complex was connected in July 2007; work on internals is in hand. The aim is to extend the CHP building and convert the fuel source to gasified biomass by March 2008. |
Explain the process and action taken
ACC identified energy inefficient properties in its housing stock and carried out a feasibility study into means of achieving affordable warmth for tenants. CHP was selected as the preferred technology for high rise flats. Multi-storey clusters suitable for the installation of CHP are identified by ACC and referred to AHP for development. Tenants are involved by the Council in decision making. Feasibility study carried out by Design Engineer, planning permission obtained, tenders sought and contracts awarded. The contractor for the installation of internals is also a training organization and has recruited and trained otherwise unemployed people. On conclusion of work landscape reinstatement undertaken in conjunction with ACC grounds maintenance staff. Customer satisfaction surveys undertaken on the completion of each scheme. |
Explain the role of the key partners
ACC, the Combined Heat & Power Association and Tulloch Training were founding members. Several Council services have been involved at different times and to varying extents: housing, finance, legal, planning, culture and leisure, grounds maintenance. ACC sourced Community Energy Programme and other grants from central Government and the Scottish Executive and underwrote a commercial loan. Technical design and project management undertaken by Integrated Energy Utilities. Electricity trading managed by Community Energy Services. Both these companies are committed to the aims of reducing fuel poverty and emissions reduction. The Board of AHP has directors from the Council, the CHP Association, the tenants and SCARF. It also has several independent directors including two chartered planners. A planning consultant was engaged to identify the best site in an exposed location for the Seaton CHP station and to progress the planning application. |
What results were achieved?
Three CHP schemes have been constructed. Affordable warmth and significant financial savings have been provided to approximately 1,000 households, including many in sheltered accommodation. Various civic buildings have been connected with considerable cost savings to ACC. The CHP stations are delivering heat and generating power with 85% efficiency. The Seaton scheme will provide base load capacity for the extension of CHP into the city centre and to several regeneration areas when capacity is increased and conversion to biomass effected. The CHP stations have been successfully integrated into the local environment. Particular attention given to siting and design of the Seaton CHP station. Here, use of recycled materials, inclusion of a 'green' roof to reduce rate of rainfall runoff, and employment of SUDS limit environmental impact, while the opportunity to co-locate with the sports facility gives additional benefit to a deprived community |
In summary, why does this piece of work merit an Award?
Stockethill was the first successful community CHP scheme in Scotland. AHP is a genuine locally based community initiative and working partnerships needed to be established to achieve this. It is being regarded as a model ESCo for similar projects across the UK, eg Barking, Southampton, Wick. The quality of a substantial proportion of Council housing stock has been improved and fuel poverty experienced by tenants reduced. It has successfully demonstrated the practical application of sustainable development concepts: - robust training programmes have reskilled unemployed people and provide them with employment;
- residents' response has been investigated at all stages and satisfaction confirmed;
- CO 2 emissions have been reduced compared to traditional means of producing heat and power;
- the basis has been established for creating a CHP network around the City.
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