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  • Decision details
  • Decision details

    21/00034 - Public Sector Decarbonisation Fund grant award

    Decision Maker: Cabinet Member for Environment

    Decision status: Recommendations Approved

    Is Key decision?: Yes

    Is subject to call in?: No

    Purpose:

    Proposed decision – For KCC, subject to S151 officer sign off, to accept a Grant from the Public Sector Decarbonisation Fund from Salix Finance on behalf of the Department of Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy. (BEIS). The grant funding will be for up to £21m for several proposed energy projects, and up to a further £2.25m for school site energy projects. A Section 31 grant is proposed.

     

     

     

     

     

    The Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) launched the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme in autumn 2020 which is being delivered on its behalf by Salix Finance.

     

    The Grant Scheme offered £1bn of grant funding which aligned with BEIS’s new mission and priorities: fighting coronavirus, backing business, unleashing innovation and tackling climate change. The scheme will also encourage green investment, supporting the Government’s net-zero and clean growth goals.

     

    The scheme provides funding for capital energy efficiency and heat decarbonisation projects within public sector non-domestic buildings, including central government departments and non-departmental public bodies in England only, and will deliver the following objectives:

     

               Deliver stimulus to the energy efficiency and heat decarbonisation sectors, supporting jobs. 

     

               Deliver significant carbon savings within the public sector. 

     

    The scheme allows public sector bodies including eligible central government departments and their non-departmental public bodies in England only to apply for a grant to finance up to 100% of the costs of capital energy-saving projects that meet the scheme criteria. 

     

    This FED is in recognition of BEIS wishing to award KCC a grant totalling £20,643,013.64 for several energy projects to decarbonise the KCC estate. These include two solar park projects, solar PV (photovoltaic) on KCC buildings, funding for a Maidstone Heat Network, heat pump projects and funding for LED (light-emitting diode) lighting projects.

     

    This FED is additionally in anticipation of a further £2.25m for school site energy projects that will support schools’ efforts to also reach Net Zero.

     

    Reason for Urgency

    The Grant Offer Letter requires KCC to sign and return binding documents accepting the grant by1 March 2021.

     

    This funding has the potential to help KCC make significant reductions to it carbon emissions and meet its target to be net zero by 2030. It also has the added benefits of reducing KCC’s energy costs and providing an income to KCC. It also helps to stimulate the low carbon economy in Kent and create local jobs as well as set up some key development infrastructure to meet future energy challenges such as security of supply.

     

     

     

     

    Decision:

    As Cabinet Member for Environment, I agree to:

     

    -       Accept a Grant from the Public Sector Decarbonisation Fund from Salix Finance on behalf of the Department of Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), subject to s151 Officer consideration.

     

    -       Confirm that the grant funding will be for up to £21m for several proposed energy projects (subject to separate decision-making where appropriate), and up to a further £1.2m for school site energy projects; and

     

    -       Delegate authority to Corporate Director of Growth, Environment and Transport to take relevant actions, including but not limited to, entering into contracts and other legal agreements, as necessary to implement decisions to spend the grant.

     

    Urgent item?: Yes

    Publication date: 01/03/2021

    Date of decision: 01/03/2021

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