Local Area Energy Plans (LAEPs)

Tender description

We require a consultant to provide consultancy services to achieve the following objectives. The main objective of the LAEPs is to provide energy infrastructure options that can reduce carbon emissions in West Yorkshire. In addition to this, objectives include: • Reducing overall energy demand • Improving air quality • Increasing the energy efficiency of homes and reducing fuel poverty • Improving business resilience through improvements in energy efficiency, transport etc. • Enabling development of the green supply chain • Supporting green skills, training, and upskilling to enable employment growth in this sector • Building citizens’ awareness through stakeholder engagement. Lot 1: Procurement for a supplier to provide the following: • Stakeholder engagement – supporting WYCA and four local authorities (LAs) to define stakeholders’ roles; preparing an engagement plan; engagement activities to ensure a credible, cohesive and sustained approach to governance and delivery of the LAEPs. Organising stakeholder events • Representing the regional area and its energy system; spatial mapping; identifying relevant data sources and analysing them; reviewing outputs with stakeholders • Modelling options for the future to decarbonise the regional area; establishing potential scenarios and modelling approaches with stakeholders; modelling a range of costed options and assessing them • Refining scenarios and selecting pathways through techno-economic analysis; evaluating wider factors; engagement with stakeholders • Assessing national, regional and local policy at the level of government and key stakeholders • Desk research and overview of consumer acceptance of and preference for different technologies, based on income quintiles/deciles • Creating LAEPs for the four LAs • Ensuring that all five LAEPs are aligned in terms of topics addressed and cross-boundary opportunities • Drafting an overview report of the LAEPs for the five LAs (including Calderdale). This will bring together the content of each LAEP, address cross-boundary issues, etc • Actions, priorities and decisions – assessing the pathways to identify interventions and timelines for deployment with: - Diversity/flexibility in different places - Priority project identification - Long-term (opportunities for scale up) • Revising finalised LAEPs to take account of any significant policy, technological or regional/local changes