Concise Minutes - Environment and Sustainability Committee

Meeting Venue:

Committee Room 3 - Senedd

Meeting date: Thursday, 22 October 2015

Meeting time: 09.30 - 12.30
This meeting can be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/3274

Attendance

Category	Names
Assembly Members:	Alun Ffred Jones AM (Chair) Mick Antoniw AM Jeff Cuthbert AM Russell George AM Llyr Gruffydd AM Janet Haworth AM Julie Morgan AM William Powell AM Jenny Rathbone AM
Witnesses:	Malcolm Eames, Cardiff University David Clubb, Renewables UK Cymru Chris Blake, The Green Valleys Nigel Turvey, Western Power Stephen Stewart, Scottish Power Energy Networks
Committee Staff:	Alan Simpson (Expert Adviser) Martha Da Gama Howells (Second Clerk) Adam Vaughan (Deputy Clerk) Graham Winter (Researcher)

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Transcript

View the meeting transcript.

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1 Introductions, apologies and substitutions

1.1 Apologies were received from Joyce Watson. There were no substitutions.

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2 Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the meeting for the following business: Items 4 and 6

2.2 Members of the Committee agreed the motion.

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3 Inquiry into "A smarter energy future for Wales?"

3.1 Witnesses responded to questions from Members of the Committee. 

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4 Discussion of evidence (in camera)

4.1 Members of the Committee discussed the evidence.

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5 Inquiry into "A smarter energy future for Wales?"

5.1 The witnesses responded to questions from Members of the Committee.

5.2 Stephen Stewart agreed to provide the Committee with:

· Heat maps, depicting grid connection capacity;

· Further details on activity within Liverpool in relation to its selection as a ‘Smart City’.

5.3     Nigel Turvey agreed to provide the Committee with:

· Charts that show the amount of output seen at different months from the different technology types;

· Information on the megabytes needed to support a smart city such as Bristol/Liverpool;

· Further information on the scale necessary, in terms of breakthrough costings, for new storage systems to become economically viable;

· Further information on what investment Western Power Distribution is putting into research and development in relation to storage.

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6 Discussion of evidence (in camera)

6.1   Members of the Committee discussed the evidence.

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