Have Your Say on Greater Lincolnshire’s Energy Strategy
Securing enough energy for the future and managing water supplies is crucial if the Greater Lincolnshire economy is to grow.
That’s why the Greater Lincolnshire Local Enterprise Partnership is leading on an energy and water strategy for the area – and the LEP wants to hear the views of the business community and the public sector.
From now until Friday 21st September 2018 Greater Lincolnshire businesses can go online and have their say on future energy and water needs.
The short online survey is open to all businesses in Greater Lincolnshire and can be found here: http://snapsurveys.lincolnshire.gov.uk/snapwebhost/s.asp?k=153546617350
The LEP has received funding from BEIS (the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) to develop an energy strategy which will link to the LEP’s Strategic Economic Plan and form one of the chapters of the emerging Local Industrial Strategy.
Following the survey, the LEP will stage a number of focus groups and one-to-one sessions with business people, especially those who attended the LEP’s first Utilities Summit in July last year.
“The LEP is taking a leadership role on the connection between the economic agenda and the landscape for energy and water,” said Andrew Brooks, who is leading the project for the Greater Lincolnshire LEP.
“The energy strategy will identify where the LEP can tackle some of these issues, but it will also identify where help is needed to take on bigger challenges and where local actors need to take steps to tackle issues closer to home.
“It’s very important for us to collect this data, as it will form an effective baseline from which we can properly articulate energy and water needs for the first time.”
To take part in the online survey visit: http://snapsurveys.lincolnshire.gov.uk/snapwebhost/s.asp?k=153546617350
If you would like to be considered for the one-to-one sessions or focus groups, please contact Andrew Brooks by emailing andrew.brooks@lincolnshire.gov.uk
The Greater Lincolnshire LEP’s vision is to support the creation of a sustainable supply of energy which meets its ambitions for growth and business sector development.
This vision is underpinned by four key objectives:
- delivering secure, low-cost, low-carbon energy to every home, office, and factory
- supporting commercial and residential development in capacity constrained areas
- mobility of the future, and the opportunities for further changes
- empowering the emerging local energy industry within Greater Lincolnshire
The work will also feed into one of the major national challenges facing the UK, which is the need to develop new sources of sustainable energy, and to create a shift in the way that industry uses energy to deliver green growth.
The Greater Lincolnshire Energy Plan will seek to identify how our green energy infrastructure can be further developed and used to benefit both our businesses and our communities.
Notes for editors:
- The Greater Lincolnshire LEP was set up in 2010 and works with businesses and local authorities to develop and grow Greater Lincolnshire’s diverse economy.
- It is a public / private partnership led by the private sector.
- It works with central government and the private sector to invest in infrastructure, skills, innovation and productivity.
- More than 100 businesses are involved in its strategies, and 80 business people sit on its boards.
- The LEP has an ambitious and balanced strategic economic growth plan for Greater Lincolnshire.
- The LEP’s six priority sectors are agrifood, the visitor economy, manufacturing, logistics, health and care and low-carbon energy.
- The LEP has invested £307 million in local economic growth schemes in Greater Lincolnshire since 2014.
- The Greater Lincolnshire LEP covers an area including North Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire and the administrative county of Lincolnshire and is led by a LEP board made up of leading figures in the public and private sector.
- To find out more visit www.greaterlincolnshirelep.co.uk or follow the LEP on Twitter: @greaterlincslep.
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