On 13th March 2007, Sunderland City Council hosted an Energy Summit at Nissan Motors UK in Washington. The Energy Summit, supported by the Council's Environment and Planning Review Committee attracted over 80 delegates and brought together the key agencies and organisations that use, supply and influence energy within Sunderland.  The event aimed to; Review the likely energy consumption in Sunderland over the next 10-15 years. Present low energy, low carbon solutions from the agencies and practitioners that already implement them. Begin to develop a city-wide approach that will help to reduce energy consumption and develop low-carbon energy sources in a way that supports all our goals.

Delegates were welcomed to the Energy Summit by the Deputy Mayor of Sunderland, Councillor Les Scott, who looked back at Sunderland's history and it's relationship with energy and stressed the need for agencies to now start working together to develop opportunities out of the need to reduce energy consumption in the future.

Our hosts, Nissan, were on hand to take delegates to see at close hand the wind turbines on the site that are helping to reduce the plants energy consumption by 5%.. Follow the links below for information and presentations produced from the summit.

Energy Summit report ( 142Kb)

Presentations:

•  The National and Regional Energy Context ( 96Kb) - Jon Bird, Director of External Affairs, CE Electric UK, and Chair of the North East Energy Partnership -
• Business opportunities in energy in the North East ( 718Kb) - Dermot Roddy, CEO, Renew Tess Valley Ltd
• The future of energy in Sunderland ( 444Kb) Jim Gillon, Sustainability Coordinator, Sunderland City Council
• Moving to Zero-Carbon Developments ( 83Kb) - Barry Coe, Building Control Officer, Sunderland City Council
• Urban Wind Opportunities and the Nissan Wind Turbines ( 67Kb) - Matthew Lumsden, Managing Director, TNEI Services Ltd
• Renewable Energy in Housing Developments ( 2.5Mb) - Robert Clark, Senior Consultant, Energy for Sustainable Development
• Stimulating local energy networks in the North East ( 148Kb) - Graham Hillier, Director of Fuel Cell Applications Facility, Centre for Process Innovation