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RESOLVED:
 

1.   
That Cabinet provides high level in principle
approval to the solar rooftops and Public Sector Decarbonisation
Scheme Phase 3b (PSDS3b) schools and corporate buildings projects
proposed to be taken forward in this report.
 

2.   
That Cabinet delegates business case approval of the
solar rooftops and the PSDS3b schools and corporate building
decarbonisation projects to the Cabinet Member for Environment, the
Cabinet Member for Property and Waste, and the Cabinet Member for
Finance and Resources, on the recommendations of the Executive
Director for Environment, Transport and Infrastructure, the
Executive Director for Resources, alongside Capital Programme
Panel.
 

3.   
That Cabinet agrees the delegation of approval based
on the costs of the two combined programmes being no more than 10%
above the total cost presented here.
Reasons for
Decisions:
 
These projects are set out in the
Greener Futures
Climate Change Delivery Plan, which was approved by Cabinet in October 2021, and will
deliver direct reductions in carbon emissions and generate energy
savings for Surrey County Council and the schools in scope. The
list of buildings in the decarbonisation and solar rooftops
programme is included in Appendix A.
These projects and the associated costs are part of a wider
programme of projects and initiatives that put together plot a
pathway to achieve net zero 2030 for Surrey County Council as an
organisation with the ambition of being overall self financing. The approach to financing
SCC’s net zero 2030 programme outlined in Greener Futures
Finance Strategy is coming to Cabinet for approval in July
2023.
The
principles of accepting Government grant funding to enable such
projects was agreed by Cabinet in April 2022 (Surrey’s
Greener Futures Grant
Programmes). The principles
of these PSDS3b programmes are as already approved in December 2022
for the previous PSDS3a funded programme and will be adopted for
similar future programmes, the next of which will be PSDS3c in
autumn 2023. The principles are described further in Appendix B.
The principles are fully in line with those which will be presented
in the overarching Greener Futures Finance Strategy, which will be
brought to Cabinet in July 2023.
A
high-level summary of the projects is set out in this paper along
with the business case development timescales. To meet the time
constraints requiring installation over the summer months it is not
possible to bring a fully costed business case for all projects
based on final scheme designs to Cabinet, as such this report
requests that approval of the final business case be delegated to
Cabinet Members via Capital Programme Panel
recommendation.
To
make use of this year’s funding and to maximise the financial
savings, the projects need to be undertaken this summer and have a
very short time scale for delivery.

(The decisions on this item can be called-in by the
Communities, Environment and Highways Select Committee)