Green Tech South West welcomes James Sterling, Communications, Engagement and Partnerships Manager at Bristol City Council, to explain all about City Leap - an exciting new approach to accelerating green energy investment in Bristol and helping us achieve our net zero carbon ambitions.

Like all cities, Bristol’s energy system is set to undergo a transformation. City Leap has the potential to facilitate this change by use of real time data, investment in energy storage and distributed energy generation to create a genuinely smart energy system for Bristol. Bristol can become a focal point for new low carbon technologies and smart energy systems, opening up the prospect of fast deployment of new services and technologies at scale.

City Leap interventions will have an impact on many aspects of life for Bristol residents including the way people move around the city e.g. EV charging points, and the way we power and heat our homes e.g. mass roll out of solar panels, expanding the city’s heat network and decarbonising our social housing stock. This will lead to improved air quality and the creation of local jobs in energy and related supply chains.

For investors and partners, City Leap will offer a competitive return on investments, the chance to create and test new energy propositions and business models which are replicable at a national and international scale.

James heads up the Communications, Engagement and Partnerships workstream for Bristol City Council’s Energy Service. He’s worked on some key sustainability projects including European Green Capital, Bristol Community Energy Fund and more recently on Bristol’s pioneering new City Leap initiative – aiming to attract £1bn investment to transform the local energy system.

With a strong background in communications and an unmatched passion for sustainability, James has been an instrumental champion for his city’s green efforts over the years, ensuring collective action to keep Bristol on track to be the UK’s first carbon neutral city.

James on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-sterling-a96169104/

This is a free online event streaming via the CrowdCast platform. You will see the link once you RSVP. The evening before the event, we'll email those that RSVPed with more details about what to expect when using CrowdCast.

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👋 12.30pm - Event starts with a welcome from your meet-up organisers, Ellen, Hannah and Mike

📢 12.35pm - Our famous 60 second intros - a chance for attendees to introduce themselves, ask for help and tell us about something the group might find interesting

🗓️ 1.25pm - Round-up, other community notices and next event announcement

The event will be recorded and will be available along with James's slides to view shortly afterwards.

Bristol's City Leap: A new hope for city-scale decarbonisation