All Energy Industry Council

20^th February 2020

West Suffolk College, Bury St. Edmunds

In attendance:

Andrew Harston - Associated British Ports

Chris Starkie - New Anglia LEP

Colette Matthewman - UEA

Johnathan Reynolds - Opergy/ New Anglia LEP

Julian Munson - New Anglia LEP

Mark Goodall (Chair) - Aker Solutions

Maxine Narburgh - Greater South East Energy Hub

Michelle Burdett - Great Yarmouth Borough Council

Nikos Savvas - West Suffolk College (dialled in)

Paul Warmington - Suffolk County Council

Paul Wood - East Suffolk Council

Sherlyn Deguzman - Shell

Simon Gray - East of England Energy Group

Tom McGarry - EDF

Guests:

Andy Holyland - ORE Catapult

Simon Cheeseman - ORE Catapult

Apologies:

Madeleine Coupe - New Anglia LEP

Shan Lloyd - BEIS

Victoria Sinclair - Scottish Power Renewables

Vince Muspratt - Norfolk County Council

Andy Paine - Vattenfall

Bill Cattanach - Oil and Gas Authority (dialled in)

Graham Hacon - 3sun

Konstantinos Chalvatzis - UEA

Martin Dronfield - James Fisher Marine Services

Stuart Rimmer - East Coast College

Stuart Smith - People with Energy

Richard Goffin - Peel Ports

Sheila Oxtoby - Great Yarmouth Borough Council

Exec Attendees:

Katie Snell - New Anglia LEP

Philippa Warren - East of England Energy Group

Welcome from the Chair

Actions

Mark Goodall (MG) welcomed everyone to the meeting, noting new participants including

Tom McGarry, Paul Warmington, Sherlyn Deguzman, substitutions f rom GYBC and UEA

and our guest speakers f rom ORE Catapult. No comments on previous minutes.

Actions still outstanding:

BC and JR to open discussions on synergies between SuNRISE coast bid /strength in

JR and BC

places and OGA initiatives.

Update f rom BC on OGA Energy Integration Interim Findings document

AEIC meeting will not be held at Adastral Park, but KS is organising an Innovation Forum

PWar and

event which f ocuses on ICT and Clean Energy. This event f orms a series of events f or

2020/21 and sits under the Innovation Forum. BT will be asked if AEIC can have a tour af ter

the event. The provisional date24^th June doesn’t work well with other events by AEIC

stakeholders. KS and PWar to discuss suitable dates. KS will need to consider the ICT

sector also.

Local Industrial Strategy Deep-Dive on the Greater South East Energy Hub

(GSEEH)

Please refer to the attached presentation for more details.

There are 5 energy hubs across England, all supporting local authorities and LEPs with

energy strategies. The GSEEH covers a huge area and incorporates 11 LEP /Combined

Authority areas.

There are issues with our grid in terms of connection and capacity. There are 57 sites across

the whole GSEEH area where projects are being constrained, of which 23 are in our (NALEP)

region.

How can we capitalise on the energy projects on our coast and realise that energy in

constrained regions? National Grid owns the grid, distribution is via UKPN, however major

developers own the connection up to the grid. The current regulatory model means that

DNO’s can’t create new substations ahead of demand.

You can by-pass the grid by ‘direct wiring’ to customers directly such as the community

generation projects.

Links between all interested stakeholders is very complicated with a lot of companies trying

to help raise awareness too. Sometimes companies are approached by multiple agencies all

wanting to help and it can b e conf using as to who can really make a dif f erence. Is there a way

to simplify the stakeholders and who do we need to contact or corral to make this happen?

An Introduction to the ORE Catapult - potential opportunities for the region

Please refer to the attached presentation for more detailed information.

An introduction to the Catapult network was provided and specif ically the ORE Catapult and

aims in the East of England now with base at Orbis Energy.

Catapult Energy Systems look at f uture energy connectivity issues. The Catapult as a whole

aims to support the supply chain and regional development, taking ideas f rom concepts to

market, quickly.

3 core f unctions of the Catapult: Testing & Validation, Operational Perf ormance and Research

& Disruptive Innovation.

Currently the ongoing Catapult initiatives include an O&M CoE in the Humber, a CoE for

floating offshore Wind, Tidal Stream Industry Energiser Project, SPARTA

(anonymised

offshore wind data collection) and E-Grid (grid emulation system).

Other national OREC programmes include: Launch Academy

(market readiness),

Fit4Renewables (stamp of approval for companies entering into the industry), Offshore Wind

Growth Partnership, Of f shore Wind Innovation Hub and OREC ‘Powered By’ (endorsement).

They help disseminate inf ormation such as the f ree-to-access reports on the ORE Catapult

website.

Qx. How are we going to approach LIS target to decarbonise ports? Ore Catapult is working

with Maritime UK, who are working with KTN (who also have an ongoing port initiative).

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The Regional Opportunity:

There are a lot of good energy transition projects that are happening in isolation. Can we

take a dif f erent approach and reduce the levelised cost of energy and look at an all -energy

picture? Can we instil an ethos of sustainable production and the wise use of energy?

The onshore capacity cannot handle of f shore production at present we need to look at:

• Battery Storage

• Hydrogen Production (and the uses of the bi-products)

• Offshore ‘Ring-Main’ / Interconnector with connectivity for Gas Operators too

• Carbon Capture and Storage

• Using old platforms for Hydrogen production

• Plugging in Nuclear, solar, biomass and offshore wind to the big energy picture

The inf rastructure onshore really needs look at consumption but also the production potential.

Link to this the grid and we need to look at:

• Batteries

• Hydrogen storage and the use as a fuel

• HGVs and Vessels

• EV charging and infrastructure

• Heating and cooling (residential and commercial)

• Energy monitoring systems and smart controls

TM noted that bef ore moving ahead this is an enormous project that will need the support of

communities, the media but most importantly UK Government to support and drive forward

what will be a number of nationally signif icant energy projects.

MN - The region will need to be ‘bid -ready’ if they want to access some of the InnovateUK

f unding streams that may support this type of project.

In terms of regional geography this group and NALEP covers Norf olk and Suf f olk, but we

need to work with other partners in other regions and collaboratively with other LEPs to

achieve this. But the result could be a model that could be replicated, and we would be the

AH to update

exemplar.

ORE Catapult to scope out what’s next and update at the next meeting. It was agreed at this

stage that the concept should not be disclosed to any stakeholders outside of the AEIC.

Workgroup Progress

Building on World class Research - group agreed that ref erence to the Strength in Places bid

needs to be made, with discrete projects f rom this group f unded prior to the bid decision.

Capability Matrix - group liked the progress so f ar. AH to send PWar the EIC matrix.

Joined up Marketing Message - audiences need to be clearly defined and messages tailored

accordingly. CM added that the UEA may be able to help as they have a team working on

public perception at present.

Work identif ied by this subgroup will f eed into the new Marketing Manager who will soon be

in post. This post will f ocus on all energy and f its in with the activity undertaken by EEEZ.

PWar to

External marketing consultants will be engaged to support this activity. All partners including

coordinate.

EEEGR, LAs and LEP will jointly take forward this work and report back to AEIC.

Slides to be circulated for comment and SOW to be written for each of the pieces of work.

AOB

Developing Norfolk and Suffolk Investment Plan information.

Your help is needed to identify and develop the interventions that will be part of the

Investment Plan. The Investment Plan will capture the interventions that will deliver the

ambitions and goals in the Economic Strategy and Local Industrial Strategy - projects,

programs and initiatives - which require f unding.

The purpose of the Investment Plan is to enable the LEP and partners to be in a positive

position to secure future funding when opportunities arise. It will enable the AEIC to be

proactive in seeking f unding and will ensure investment is made in interventions that will

deliver the desired impact rather than f unding projects just because they are ‘shovel ready’.

The attached guidance note provides details on the approach to develop the Investment plan

and outlines what we need to do should we have an intervention we would like to be

considered for inclusion.

The Investment Plan will be a living document, this is the start of a new way of working. To

develop the initial Investment Plan that the LEP Board will sign of f in July we are seeking

submission of expressions of interest by 20^th March 2020. But we are looking f or

partners and groups to continue to consider interventions in the coming months and as and

when new ideas are developed submit an EoI to the LEP f or consideration.

If you have any questions or would like to discuss this with one of the team please send an

email to [email protected] call Marie Finbow - 07788280214 or James Allen -

07392091336.

Date of next meeting 30^th April 2020, PM - venue TBC.