Local Area Energy Plans (LAEPs)

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