Local Industrial Decarbonisation Plans Competition Briefing

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Recording overview

There is growing awareness of the role industry must play in supporting the UK to reach Net Zero emissions by 2050. Dispersed sites account for half of all UK industrial emissions and therefore play a pivotal role in achieving these ambitions. To support dispersed sites in developing strategic plans to prepare industry for the green industrial transition and a low carbon future the Government has recently announced that a £5m Local Industrial Decarbonisation Plans (LIDP) competition will begin this summer.

The LIDP online briefing session will provide stakeholders interested in applying for funding through the LIDP with key information such as dates for the competition, application guidance, definitions and eligibility, as well as the opportunity to hear from an existing industrial cluster on the lessons they learnt during their own development journey.

Who is this recording for?

The session will be of interest to industrial manufacturers and other key stakeholders, such as local authorities and Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs), who are looking to form collaborative local cluster project teams.

Why watch?

As well as the abatement of CO2 the drive to Net Zero will ensure UK industry remains competitive, drive investment and secure jobs for the long term. The £5 million LIDP competition will support dispersed industrial sites and other public, private and third sector stakeholders to form a cluster and develop strategic plans that plot a route to decarbonising industry in their area. One of the many benefits of place-based decarbonisation planning is that it enables organisations to learn together, share knowledge, build relationships, and reduce the costs and risks associated with solo decarbonisation projects. This is an approach that has been demonstrated in large-scale industrial clusters like Teesside and we now want to apply it to concentrations of industry outside the main industrial clusters in places we are calling local clusters.

This session provides stakeholders, industrial manufacturing businesses, and stakeholder organisations with the opportunity to understand how a local cluster approach could benefit them, what would be required to apply and key insights that will enable potential applicants to produce a plan that is joined up, strategic, and works towards a greener future.

Agenda

• Welcome and introduction, background
• LIDP: Aims and Objectives
• Scope and eligibility
• Lessons from Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge
• Guidance and support
• Q&A

About the competition

UK manufacturing industries from across a range of sectors, including metals and minerals, chemicals, food and drink, paper and pulp, ceramics, glass, oil refineries and less energy intensive manufacturing, combine high end technology and highly skilled workers to make products that are traded all over the world. Without the UK manufacturing industry, there would be no cars, no medicines, no food, or the packaging it goes in. But industrial businesses also emitted 78 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2019. About half of these emissions are concentrated in the UK’s largest industrial clusters by carbon dioxide emissions. These are: Humberside, Teesside, Grangemouth, the North West, South Wales, Southampton and Black Country. The other half of industrial emissions are produced by dispersed industrial sites i.e., all industrial sites not within one of the UK’s largest industrial clusters.

The government wants to support dispersed sites in developing strategic plans that prepares industry for the green industrial transition, and ultimately, a low carbon future. This is the objective of the £5m Local Industrial Decarbonisation Plans (LIDP) competition.

The £5 million LIDP competition will support dispersed industrial sites and other public, private and third sector stakeholders to develop strategic plans that plot a route to decarbonising industry in their area. One of the many benefits of place-based decarbonisation planning is that it enables organisations to learn together, share knowledge, build relationships, and reduce the costs and risks associated with solo decarbonisation projects. This is an approach that has been demonstrated in large-scale industrial clusters like Teesside and we now want to apply it to concentrations of industry outside the main clusters in places we are calling local clusters.

Successful projects will have a vision for the future of industry in their area that embraces the challenges and opportunities of decarbonisation. LIDPs will develop cutting edge solutions supported by technical experts in the field and provide an inspirational blueprint to work towards, one which is joined up, strategic, and ready for a greener future.