Issue - meetings

Recommendations

Executive Response

1. Street Lighting Officers discuss and renegotiate the rate charged to the authority for lamp stock electricity supply to minimise financial costs and ensure that the contract to CYC includes upwards of 20% renewable sourcing to be increased towards a target of 100%.

Agreed, with the following addition:  Insert at the end of the recommendation

 “where the supplier is able to provide renewable sourced energy and subject to the outcome of the forthcoming procurement of energy for street lighting, which will be reported to Members for decision.'

2. Street Lighting and Finance Officers ensure that the cashable and non cashable energy and financial savings are reported in Gershon Efficiencies responses, ring fenced and invested in increasingly sustainable street lighting stock.

Not agreed.

Re-word as follows:

Insert, after “Gershon Efficiencies responses”, “and where feasible reinvest following consideration as part of the annual budget process”.

3. Street Lighting Officers with the assistance of the Sustainability Officer ensure that CO2 emissions from energy use in street lighting stock are reported annually under EMAS and that targets are set for annual carbon savings.

Agreed, with the following addition:

Insert, at the end of the recommendation: “provided that appropriate resources can be allocated to deliver the savings proposals”.

4. Street Lighting Officers should complete the audit and database detailing street lighting stock in line with best practice and the "whole life" details outlined at para 20 as a matter of urgency prior to renegotiating the electricity contract this year.

Agreed,  with the following addition Re-word to:

“Street Lighting Officers should use the newly completed and audited inventory detailing the street lighting stock to renegotiate the electricity supply contract this year”.

5. Upon completion of Audit, Street Lighting Officers should prepare a Street Lighting Strategy for submission to the Executive.

Agreed, with the following change

Remove the words “Upon completion of Audit”.

Add: “The Strategy should include a requirement to implement new technology when appropriate”.

6. Street Lighting Officers should maintain their established contact with pilot authorities trialling Photovoltaic (PV) lighting and other sustainable technologies and endeavour to keep track of the best versions of this technology available.

Agreed

7. Street Lighting Officers should recommend the use of PV powered "standalone" systems and other sustainable technologies as the technologies improve and community netted systems installations for areas of the authority without grid netting requiring lighting. Officers should, in this instance, consider whole life costs of installation, including offsetting the installation costs against savings made from electricity billing during the systems life. That the position of using PV and any other advances to sustainable technologies should be included in the annual "Highways Report"

Agreed

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Recommendations

Executive Response

1. Street Lighting Officers discuss and renegotiate the rate charged to the authority for lamp stock electricity supply to minimise financial costs and ensure that the contract to CYC includes upwards of 20% renewable sourcing to be increased towards a target of 100%.

Agreed, with the following addition:  Insert at the end of the recommendation

 “where the supplier is able to provide renewable sourced energy and subject to the outcome of the forthcoming procurement of energy for street lighting, which will be reported to Members for decision.'

2. Street Lighting and Finance Officers ensure that the cashable and non cashable energy and financial savings are reported in Gershon Efficiencies responses, ring fenced and invested in increasingly sustainable street lighting stock.

Not agreed.

Re-word as follows:

Insert, after “Gershon Efficiencies responses”, “and where feasible reinvest following consideration as part of the annual budget process”.

3. Street Lighting Officers with the assistance of the Sustainability Officer ensure that CO2 emissions from energy use in street lighting stock are reported annually under EMAS and that targets are set for annual carbon savings.

Agreed, with the following addition:

Insert, at the end of the recommendation: “provided that appropriate resources can be allocated to deliver the savings proposals”.

4. Street Lighting Officers should complete the audit and database detailing street lighting stock in line with best practice and the "whole life" details outlined at para 20 as a matter of urgency prior to renegotiating the electricity contract this year.

Agreed,  with the following addition Re-word to:

“Street Lighting Officers should use the newly completed and audited inventory detailing the street lighting stock to renegotiate the electricity supply contract this year”.

5. Upon completion of Audit, Street Lighting Officers should prepare a Street Lighting Strategy for submission to the Executive.

Agreed, with the following change

Remove the words “Upon completion of Audit”.

Add: “The Strategy should include a requirement to implement new technology when appropriate”.

6. Street Lighting Officers should maintain their established contact with pilot authorities trialling Photovoltaic (PV) lighting and other sustainable technologies and endeavour to keep  ...  view the full minutes text for item 107