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| Mike Barry Mike Barry • 1st Director at Mikebarryeco 5h • Great job opportunities with Polly Billington and UK100 team building a network of councils across the UK committed to a #NetZero future Polly Billington Polly Billington • 2nd Director at UK100 6h • WE ARE HIRING. So this is exciting. 2020 will arguably be the most important year for climate action in the UK, with COP26 looming. And our network of highly ambitious local government leaders needs a Campaign Manager, an Ops and Programmes Manager, a Finance Manager and an Ops and Campaigns assistant. More here: https://lnkd.in/gAZxJMq or message me. #climatechange #cleanenergy #climateaction #localgovernment Work With Us uk100.org Do you want to play a key role in supporting and enabling local leaders to advocate and implement am… 21 1 Comment Like Comment Share Most Relevant Peter Burgess Peter BurgessStatus is online Peter Burgess You Founder/CEO at TrueValueMetrics.org developing True Value Impact Accounting 2s I like this initiative a lot ... change can happen a lot faster at the city level than at the country level or the multi-country level ... and when it adds up it is just as big and far faster. Another way to speed up action is to use the right system of metrics and data flows that incentivise the right performance rather than being costly and getting in the way! Like Peter Burgess’ comment I like the UK100 initiative a lot. I am also a Lancashire lad born in Preston 80 years ago Wednesday! My father played rugby for the Preston Grasshoppers! I am an engineer/economist/accountant and have been in the USA for more than 50 years. My passion is management to make the world a better place. Polly Billington 2nd degree connection2nd Polly has a premium accountClick to upgrade to Premium Director at UK100 London, United Kingdom 500+ connections Contact info UK100 CITIES NETWORK LIMITED University of Central Lancashire Highlights sarah schaefer Matt Prescott 11 mutual connections You and Polly both know sarah schaefer, Matt Prescott, and 9 others About UK100 is a highly ambitious network of local government leaders, which seeks to devise and implement plans for the transition to clean energy that are ambitious, cost effective and take the public and business with them. ... see more No alt text provided for this image No alt text provided for this image No alt text provided for this image Articles & activity 2,788 followers Financing Local Clean Energy in the South West. Polly’s profile photo Polly Billington Published on LinkedIn The ambition of local leaders to facilitate the transition to clean energy is high. But they are stymied by a lack of capacity and capability when it comes to turning that ambition into reality, especially when it comes to accessing the private green finance that is available. We have teamed up with policy experts, local leaders, developers and financiers to explore ways to solve this problem. Our answer – develop Clean Energy Action Partnerships, so that national government can build an industrial strategy with local leaders, focused on place. We kicked off in January with the first ever national conference on financing the transition to local clean energy, where we connected local authorities with those ready to invest hundreds of millions of pounds in private finance. We are continuing by hosting a series of five workshops across England, with the five local energy hubs, to better understand current development and financing of local energy projects. This programme fulfils the recommendation from the Green Finance Taskforce that there should be events to connect private finance with local authorities keen to develop clean energy projects. The events are organised in partnership with each local energy hub and supported by Siemens, SSE Enterprises and Abundance. The first workshop “Financing Energy in the South East” was held in June in Cambridge, followed by one in Leicester for the Midlands last month, and on Friday 15th November we host our third one in Bristol, covering the South West. We’re bringing together sector experts and senior decision-makers for an interactive debate about green finance and the roles to be played by both public organisations and private business and investors. We’ll hear updates from the South West Energy Hub, our sponsors Siemens and from those who are both developing and investing in projects across the South West. Surgery sessions, hosted by our sponsors Abundance, SSE and Siemens will allow attendees to gain further awareness of the issues involved in the transition to clean energy. Longer term, insights will be gathered from all five workshops and turned into an Insight Report. This will share common themes, barriers and opportunities for implementing integrated local energy projects nationally. Every area of the UK has the potential to develop clean, integrated, local energy projects that deliver better homes, improved transport, high quality jobs, carbon reductions and long-term financial returns. Some of the solutions will be unique but there are many common themes that are emerging from the workshops, and some changes in national policy that would enable local leaders’ ambition to be translated into reality and for green finance to flow in to UK clean energy projects. By assisting local leaders to succeed in the shift to clean energy, we believe we can smooth the path towards the national transition. 12 1 Comment Like Comment See all articles View Polly Billington’s profile WE ARE HIRING. So this is exciting. 2020 will arguably be the most important year for climate action in the UK, with COP26 looming. And our network of highly ambitious local government leaders needs a Campaign Manager, an Ops and Programmes Manager, a Finance Manager and an Ops and Campaigns assistant. More here: https://lnkd.in/gAZxJMq or message me. #climatechange #cleanenergy #climateaction #localgovernment Polly shared this 17 Reactions No alternative text description for this image This was a great event - thanks so much to Niall Riddell from SSE as well as Siemens Shoosmiths and Abundance for backing the event. These workshops - part funded by BEIS and put on in collaboration with the Local Energy Hubs are really bringing new insights into the challenges facing local energy projects trying to access private finance. #renewableenergy #cleanenergy #greenenergy #climatechange Polly shared this 17 Reactions See all activity Experience UK100 CITIES NETWORK LIMITED Director Company NameUK100 CITIES NETWORK LIMITED Dates EmployedDec 2016 – Present Employment Duration3 yrs 2 mos UK100 is a highly ambitious network of local government leaders, which seeks to devise and implement plans for the transition to clean energy that are ambitious, cost effective and take the public and business with them. It supports decision-makers in UK towns and cities in their transition to 100% clean energy by 2050. It is the only network for UK cities focused solely on climate and clean energy policy. 76 local leaders have already committed to 100% clean energy and more are signing up. The shift to clean energy is happening, here in the UK. Make sure your community is part of it. see less UK100 - for cleaner more powerful communities UK100 - for cleaner more powerful communities | |||||||||