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East Midlands News and Announcements • ALEO East Midlands regional update for the ALEO National Executive meeting - July 2017

2017-07-25T15:24:09

- provided by Darsh Chauhan, Acting Chair of ALEO East Midlands, for the ALEO Executive meeting held on 20 July 2017.

Details of any meetings held and/or forthcoming:

The last meeting was held on 5 April at Hucknall, when Karen Lond stepped down as Chair. The next regional meeting is being scheduled for the autumn - Friday 15 September. The meeting is likely to be held at City Hall, in Leicester.

The region is now being sponsored by A&M Energy Solutions.

Details of any other events held and/or forthcoming:

There was a NEA fuel poverty forum on 14 July, where Ellipse Energy talked about the statement of intent and flexible eligibility. It was well attended by LAs from the region and was promoted by ALEO East Midlands too.

There is also the NEA annual conference in Nottingham in September.

Details of any current projects:

We have tried to collate a list of HECA reports submitted from the region. So far 24 reports have been submitted out of 34 reporting LAs. This is 10 down compared to 2015.

We have received a letter from BEIS acknowledging our response to the Bonfield review.

Any other comments, e.g. issues or barriers:

We are still waiting for a new chair for the region.

Statistics:Posted by ALEO Admin — Tue Jul 25, 2017 3:24 pm

East Midlands News and Announcements • Each Home Counts Review response to ALEO East Midlands feedback

2017-06-15T10:30:49

On 14 June 2017, ALEO East Midlands received a letter from the Each Home Counts Review Team at BEIS, in response to comments submitted by the ALEO East Midlands Secretariat following the request for feedback on the Each Home Counts Report published in December 2016.

ALEO East Midlands' feedback incorporated the opinions of regional members, gathered at the January ALEO East Midlands forum meeting, as well as comments made at ALEO's national Executive meetings. ALEO East Midlands' feedback on the review report can be downloaded from:
https://aleo.org.uk/downloads/root/regi ... LEO_EM.pdf

For more information on the Each Home Counts Review and to download the December 2016 report, visit:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... ble-energy and http://www.eachhomecounts.com/

The response to ALEO East Midlands from the Each Home Counts Review Team is attached below.

Each Home Counts Review Team response to ALEO East Midlands.pdf

Statistics:Posted by ALEO Admin — Thu Jun 15, 2017 10:30 am

East Midlands News and Announcements • ALEO East Midlands regional update for the ALEO National Executive meeting - April 2017

2017-04-27T13:59:40

- provided by Darsh Chauhan, Acting Chair of ALEO East Midlands, for the ALEO Executive meeting held on 20 April 2017.

Details of any meetings held and/or forthcoming:

So far this year, two East Midlands ALEO meetings have been held. The first was on Wednesday 18 January (update already provided by KL) and the second was held on Wednesday 5 April. Both meetings were held in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire and both were sponsored by E.ON.

At the April meeting, there were 17 attendees from across the region. The speakers were:
[*]Chairs update – developments from ALEO national
[*]E.ON – open discussion around Help to Heat
[*]Community Energy – community energy projects in the EM
[*]NEA – policy update

The April meeting was also the AGM. Karen Lond, who has been our Chair and an active member of the network for years announced that West Lindsey have deleted her post. She will be leaving West Lindsey at the end of the week. The meeting thanked KL for her years of service and dedication.

Darsh is Acting Chair until elections will be held later on in the year.

Most East Midlands authorities reported that they will be submitting a HECA report. Lincolnshire has a common template and Notts/Derbyshire will also be using a common template. Many report are expected to be submitted after the 31 March deadline but BEIS seem happy with this.

Details of any other events held and/or forthcoming:
The NEA annual conference will be held in Nottingham this September.

Details of any current projects:

The Home Energy Lincs Partnership is still going strong, and helping with the Affordable Warmth Strategy. They have recruited a fuel poverty co-ordinator for the county. Community Lincs has received £30,000 from Scottish power to continue with their work around the county. A new save and warm project has recently been launched.

Leicester City Council is looking to a launch an energy white label with Leicestershire County Council in the summer. The Health Through Warmth project run by Leicester City Council is about to go countywide. Leicester City Council is also working with E.ON on external wall insulation in the city. There is a battery storage project being launched in the city for the car parks.

Any other comments, e.g. issues or barriers:

There is no news from government around the flexible eligibility.

LAs are disappointed that LAs are not able to directly access redress funding.

LAs are disappointed at the HECA and the fact that there is no resource for it and there is no enforcement power associated with it.

We are pleased to announce that, as of 17 April 2017, East Midlands ALEO will be sponsored by A&M Energy Solutions for a period of 12 months.

Statistics:Posted by ALEO Admin — Thu Apr 27, 2017 1:59 pm

East Midlands News and Announcements • BEIS response to ALEO East Midlands Questions on HECA

2017-03-16T13:00:38

BEIS have responded to questions on the latest Home Energy Conservation Act (HECA) guidance, raised by ALEO East Midlands members at the last forum meeting held on 18 January 2017.

Please see the attached PDF below:

HECA_Q_and_A.pdf

For the full HECA guidance issued by BEIS on 5 January 2017, visit:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... n-act-1995

The HECA reporting deadline is 31 March 2017.

Statistics:Posted by ALEO Admin — Thu Mar 16, 2017 1:00 pm

East Midlands News and Announcements • ALEO East Midlands regional update for the ALEO National Executive meeting - January 2017

2017-02-06T13:35:26

- provided by Karen Lond, Chair of ALEO East Midlands, for the ALEO Executive meeting held on 19 January 2017.

Details of any meetings held and/or forthcoming:

The last ALEO East Midlands meeting was held on Wednesday 18 January at The John Godber Centre, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire; the venue and lunch was sponsored by E.ON.

Presentations included:

Chair’s Update - Karen Lond
Help to heat - presented by Justine Biggs, Jane McLardy and Jonathon Dyson - EON
ALEO East Midlands feedback on the recently published Bonfield review; we considered each of the report's recommendations and general comments were also captured: once all feedback has been collated this will be submitted to BEIS before 31 January 2017
HECA reporting 2017 - Qaizer Sethi from BEIS started this session with a short presentation followed by questions from LA officers. This was followed by an open discussion.

The meeting was well attended with local authority officers from across the East Midlands.

Our next ALEO East Midlands meeting is planned for 5 or 6 April 2017 - date and venue to beconfirmed.

Details of any other events held and/or forthcoming:

The next NEA East Midlands Fuel Poverty Forum will be on 9 March 2017 at Ellipse Energy in Leicester.

NEA - FREE TRAINING – Energy Awareness Half Day Course 31 January 2017 in Northampton. This half-day course is running as part of NEA's Warm Minds project which provides free training, energy advice and energy awareness-raising sessions to organisations working with individuals living with mental health issues, dementia and learning disabilities and/or learning difficulties.
Aimed at frontline practitioners and advocates to help them to provide basic energy advice to individuals they support to enable them to manage their energy and bills, access available energy efficiency measures, energy advice and other related utility services.

Any other comments, e.g. issues or barriers:

Offers of sponsorship for our ALEO East Midland meetings and free venues across the East Midlands would be appreciated: please contact karen.lond@west-lindsey.gov.uk or david.young@leicester.gov.uk, if you are interested in sponsoring us or have a room available for a future meeting.

Statistics:Posted by ALEO Admin — Mon Feb 06, 2017 1:35 pm

East Midlands News and Announcements • ALEO East Midland regional update for ALEO National Executive meeting - October 2016

2016-10-20T16:00:45

- provided by Karen Lond, Chair of ALEO East Midlands, for the ALEO Executive meeting held on 13 October 2016.

Details of any meetings held and/or forthcoming:

The last ALEO East Midland meeting was held on Friday 9th September at Leicester City Council, Leicester: Smart Energy GB sponsored this meeting.

Presentations included:

Chair's Update, Karen Lond – ALEO East Midlands submitted a response to the Help to Heat consultation – still no feedback on Bonfield review, Will Field advised this should be released soon
Smart Meter rollout and the opportunities for LAs – Charles Malissard, Smart Energy GB
HECA reporting moving forward – Will Field, BEIS – Will confirmed BEIS will be sending out a slightly updated guidance for HECA 2017 reporting and that beyond this the guidance and HECA reporting would be reviewed and updated pending ministerial sign off; Will confirmed that future reports would be looked at by BEIS. Collaborate working between health and local authorities on energy and sustainability
Jerome Baddley, Head of Sustainable Development Unit, NHS England and PHE

The meeting was well attended with local authority officers from across the East Midlands.
The next ALEO East Midlands meeting will be held on 18th January 2017 - time to be confirmed. This meeting will be sponsored by E.ON and held at their offices.

Details of any other events held and/or forthcoming:

SET-UP Smart Energy Grids Workshop – Held on Tuesday 4th October at Leicester, Attenborough Hall - for further information contact Aiden.Davis@leicester.gov.uk

PHE Midlands and East – Sustainable Development: Whole System Approach and Sustainable Development – Thursday 3rd November at University of Leicester.
See http://www.phe-events.org.uk/mesdc2016

NEA East Midlands Fuel Poverty Forum – 3rd November at Ellipse Energy in Leicester.

Any other comments, e.g. issues or barriers:

Offers of sponsorship for our ALEO East Midland meetings and free venues across the East Midlands would be appreciated: please contact karen.lond@west-lindsey.gov.uk or david.young@leicester.gov.uk, if you are interested in sponsoring us or have a room available for a meeting.

Statistics:Posted by ALEO Admin — Thu Oct 20, 2016 4:00 pm

East Midlands News and Announcements • SET-UP Smart Energy Grids Network

2016-09-02T12:12:40

Leicester Energy Agency is pleased to announce the SET-UP Smart Energy Grids Workshop, to be held in Leicester on Tuesday 4 October 2016.

Attendance is open to all who have an interest in smart grids and smart energy.

SET-UP is an Interreg Europe funded project that aims to improve the implementation of smart energy grids to better manage supply and demand of energy across the European partner regions. Leicester City Council is one of the partners, and our workshop will be focused on the economic case for smart energy grids in the partner regions.

The workshop will feature speakers from across the UK Smart Energy sector, as well as opportunities for discussion and networking with speakers, attendees and our European partners. For full details of all speakers, please see the agenda.

To confirm your free place at the workshop, or if you have any questions, please email Aidan Davis at Aidan.Davis@leicester.gov.uk by 23 September.

Statistics:Posted by Davidyoung — Fri Sep 02, 2016 12:12 pm

East Midlands News and Announcements • ALEO East Midlands Forum Meeting

2016-08-10T12:30:03

The next ALEO East Midlands forum meeting will be held on Friday 9 September 2016, in City Hall, Leicester City Council, Charles Street, LE1 1FZ.

A draft agenda will be provided shortly.

The event will run from 10:00 until 12:30, including a presentation from the lead on HECA from the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Will Field.

Please let me know if you would like to attend and if you have any dietary requirements using the following email address: David.young@leicester.gov.uk

Statistics:Posted by Davidyoung — Wed Aug 10, 2016 12:30 pm

East Midlands News and Announcements • ALEO East Midlands AGM and Forum Meeting Minutes

2016-04-27T15:16:48

Minutes and presentations slides, as well as the Chair's Briefing, from the ALEO East Midlands (EM CAN) AGM and forum meeting, held on 03 March 2016, are now available to download from:
http://www.aleo.org.uk/em/meetings/inde ... 0704223511

Presentations were given by:
Hillary Tanner - Local Government Association
Sara Earl - Northants Warm Homes Partnership
Stephen Mirkovic - Electric Corby

The venue and morning refreshments were kindly provided by Corby Borough Council.

The next ALEO East Midlands Forum Meeting is due to take place on Friday 10 June, 2016.

Venue suggestions are welcome.

Statistics:Posted by Davidyoung — Wed Apr 27, 2016 3:16 pm

East Midlands News and Announcements • ALEO National Executive meeting regional update for ALEO East Midland

2016-04-15T13:35:27

- provided by Karen Lond, Chair of ALEO East Midlands, for the ALEO Executive meeting held on 14 April 2016.

Details of any meetings held and/or forthcoming:

The last EMCAN and AGM meeting was held on Thursday 3rd March at Corby Cube, Corby: Corby Borough Council provided the room and morning refreshments for free. The following were re-elected unopposed: Karen Lond – Chair, Darsh Chauhan – Vice Chair and Treasurer, David Young – Secretariat. Presentations included: Chair's Update, Karen Lond; LGA policy update on energy, fuel poverty and Climate Local, Hillary Tanner; Electric Corby and Northants Warm Homes Partnership, Sara Earl. Following the Executive’s decision to re-brand to ALEO, we discussed the pros and cons of changing our name also. It was agreed we would re-brand as ALEO East Midlands providing that Rob Leeson was able to adjust the logo so that East Midlands was after ALEO and that this was acceptable to the ALEO Executive.

The next ALEO East Midlands meeting will be held in June/July date, time and venue to be confirmed. No sponsorship for this meeting has been secured as yet.

Details of any other events held and/or forthcoming:

The last NEA East Midlands Fuel Poverty forum was held on 25th February 2016 at Ellipse Energy in Leicester; presentations included: NEA Policy Update that included DECC review on Energy Efficiency policy and update on Warm & Healthy Homes fund.
The next NEA East Midlands Fuel Poverty Forum is expected to take place in June at Ellipse Energy in Leicester.

Details of any current projects:

Leicestershire County Council and Leicester City Council are looking to launch a white label for residents.
Lincolnshire Energy Switch has now saved Lincolnshire residents over £600,000 since the start of the project and are currently signing a new contract to continue for a further two years.
Harborough have launched a project offering energy advice to local residents and have also installed solar panels on their Market Hall.

Statistics:Posted by ALEO Admin — Fri Apr 15, 2016 1:35 pm

East Midlands News and Announcements • East Midlands CAN becomes ALEO East Midlands

2016-03-21T13:25:56

The East Midlands Carbon Action Network will now be known as the Association of Local Energy Officers East Midlands (ALEO East Midlands), following approval from members at the regional forum meeting held on 3 March 2016.

This follows the change of the Carbon Action Network's national identity to the Association of Local Energy Officers, on 1 February 2016.

For more information, see:
viewtopic.php?f=86&t=744

Statistics:Posted by ALEO Admin — Mon Mar 21, 2016 1:25 pm

East Midlands News and Announcements • EMCAN forum meeting and AGM - 3 March 2016

2016-02-10T09:57:06

The next East Midlands Carbon Action Network forum meeting and AGM will be held on Thursday 3 March 2016, in Corby.

The draft agenda is now available at: http://www.aleo.org.uk/em/meetings/inde ... 0704223511

The event will run from 9:30 until 13:30, with confirmed speakers for this meeting including Hilary Tanner, LGA, who will update us on ‘LGA policy on energy, fuel poverty and Climate Local’ and Sara Earl, Corby Borough Council, who will be updating us on Corby Electric and the Northants Warm Homes partnership.

The National identity of the network has changed to the Association of Local Energy Officers (ALEO), so there will be a discussion around whether the region will rebrand or stay as EM CAN.

The meeting will also include the AGM, so we need as many LA officers to attend as possible to ensure a representative vote.

If you would like to attend please let me know using the following email address: David.young@leicester.gov.uk

Statistics:Posted by Davidyoung — Wed Feb 10, 2016 9:57 am

East Midlands News and Announcements • EMCAN Meeting Minutes & Presentations

2015-12-22T16:54:25

Minutes and presentations slides, as well as the Chair's Briefing, from the East Midland Carbon Action Network Meeting, held on 27 November 2015, are now available to download from:
http://www.can.uk.net/em/meetings/index ... 0704223511

Presentations were given by:
Jose Hernandez - Pick Everard
Gail Scholes - Robin Hood Energy

The meeting was kindly sponsored by Pick Everard.

Statistics:Posted by ALEO Admin — Tue Dec 22, 2015 4:54 pm

East Midlands News and Announcements • EMCAN Forum Meeting 27 November

2015-11-20T08:53:42

The next East Midlands CAN forum meeting is next Friday (27 November), which is kindly sponsored by Pick Everard.

The agenda is now available at: http://www.can.uk.net/em/meetings/index ... 0704223511

The presentations include:
•The Chair’s Update – including an update on the Autumn Statement
•Pick Everard – on the forthcoming policies for energy efficiency and renewables,
•Nottingham City Council - on setting up a Local Energy Company (Robin Hood Energy).

This is followed by two interactive workshops; the future of CAN and accessing funding in financially difficult times.

If you would like to attend please let me know using the following email address: David.young@leicester.gov.uk

- David Young
EMCAN Secretariat

Statistics:Posted by Davidyoung — Fri Nov 20, 2015 8:53 am

East Midlands News and Announcements • Agenda for the next EMCAN forum meeting

2015-11-03T14:59:04

The agenda is now available for the next East Midlands Carbon Action Network forum meeting, to be held in Nottingham on Friday 27 October. This can be found at:
http://www.can.uk.net/em/meetings/index ... 0704223511

The event will run from 9:30 until 15:30, including speakers, policy updates and a sponsors update in the morning, followed by a training session after lunch.

The meeting is kindly sponsored by Heatseekers who will be presenting on “Heatseekers – Making the Invisible, Visible”.

If you would like to attend please let me know using the following email address: David.young@leicester.gov.uk

- David Young
EMCAN Secretariat

Statistics:Posted by Davidyoung — Tue Nov 03, 2015 2:59 pm