18 Sep 2024
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Rural Net Zero Session
The Speaker Presentations can be downloaded below:
Kerry Booth, Chief Execuitve, The Rural Services Network
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Neil Harrison, Director, Reheat
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Gareth Field, Senior Sustainability Consultant, Turner & Townsend, RISE“RISE: Supporting Rural Retrofit” |
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Simon Anthony, Head of Environmental Services for Cotswolds District Council, Forest of Dean District Council and West Oxfordshire District Council“Electrification of Waste Fleets” |
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An AI generated summary of this session can be downloaded below:
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Useful links from the session:
RSN Membership:
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/page/rsn-membership
Rural Services Network Fair Funding Campaign:
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/page/rural-fair-funding
Rural Services APPG:
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/inaugural-meeting-of-the-appg-for-rural-services-a-promising-start-for-rural-communities
RSN Delivering for Rural Campaign:
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/winning-the-rural-vote
Net Zero Chapter of Delivering for Rural Campaign:
https://dev.rsnonline.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/rural-net-zero-chapter.pdf
Reheat Rural Business Case Study:
https://nicre.co.uk/case-studies/reheat-rural-business-case-study/
BEIS Heat and Building Strategy 2021:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/heat-and-buildings-strategy
Digest of UK Energy Statistics DESNZ 2023:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/digest-of-uk-energy-statistics-dukes
Local Energy Scotland Community Heat Development Programme:
https://localenergy.scot/funding/community-heat-development-programme/
Bristol City LEAP Heat Networks:
https://www.bristolcityleap.co.uk/heat-networks/
Northumberland Decarbonised Heat Network:
https://www.ruraldesigncentre.com/projects/district-heating-haydon-bridge
Report on Geothermal Energy Solution:
https://www.thinkgeoenergy.com/new-report-proposes-next-gen-geothermal-as-solution-to-uks-energy-crisis/
Is heating homes with hydrogen all but a pipe dream? An evidence review:
https://www.cell.com/joule/pdf/S2542-4351(22)00416-0.pdf
Report on Fossil Fuel vs Batteries for Transport:
https://dev.rsnonline.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2021_02_Battery_raw_materials_report_final.pdf
Great British Energy:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/introducing-great-british-energy
Article on future of wood burners and backlash on bans:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cneeyej4jy4o
Renewable Electricity Energy Initiative:
https://kraken.tech/
Summary Report Greenhouse Emissions Cumbria:
https://dev.rsnonline.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Summary-of-greenhouse-gas-emissions-in-Cumbria-and-trajectories-to-net-zero-12-compressed.pdf
DESNZ Annual Fuel Poverty Statistics 2024:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/annual-fuel-poverty-statistics-report-2024
How Fuel Poverty is Measured:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/articles/howfuelpovertyismeasuredintheuk/march2023
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fuel-poverty-statistics
The business and community benefits of housing retrofit in Cornwall:
https://riseretrofit.org.uk/latest-news/the-business-and-community-benefits-of-housing-retrofit-in-cornwall
Retrofit Information, Support & Expertise (RISE) Self-Assessment, helping to identify the support you need:
https://riseretrofit.org.uk/self-assessment
Great British Energy:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/introducing-great-british-energy
Britain’s Leading Edge reframing the story of the contribution that rural regions can make to a sustainable national economy:
https://www.britainsleadingedge.org/
Retrofit energy design guidance for village halls:
https://acre.org.uk/village-halls-net-zero-guide/
Forestry sector and decarbonisation including large electric vehicles:
https://www.forestryjournal.co.uk/news/24271760.james-jones-hails-electric-timber-truck-great-success/
Methanol from locally collected and processed waste biomass:
https://creel.co.uk/creel-maritime-ltd-launches-innovative-methanol-powered-land-rover-project-beside-loch-ness-scotland/
Article re converting US School buses to electric:
https://www.wri.org/insights/repowering-electric-school-buses
Rural Cost of Living produced by Kovia Consulting:
https://dev.rsnonline.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/rural-cost-of-living.pdf
Rural Cost of Living Survey 2023 by Rural Services Network and Citizens Advice Rural Issues Group:
https://dev.rsnonline.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Rural-Cost-Living.pdf
Resources from previous RSN Seminars and Events on Rural Net Zero:
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/31-01-24-rsn-seminar-rural-net-zero
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/22-11-2023-countryside-cop3-rsn-event-on-rural-net-zero
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/25-01-23-rsn-seminar-rural-net-zero
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/27-04-22-rsn-seminar-rural-decarbonisation
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