Tomorrow’s Energy Scenarios Northern Ireland 2019 Consultation:

Consultation Response Form

Welcome to Tomorrow’s Energy Scenarios Northern Ireland (TESNI) 2019 Consultation response form. We have designed the form to help you provide feedback on specific chapters and sections of the consultation report.

Return Instructions

Please email completed response forms to scenarios@soni.ltd.uk.

Alternatively, mail printed completed response forms to:

SONI Scenario Planning

SONI, Castlereagh House

12 Manse Road

Belfast, BT6 9RT

We look forward to receiving your feedback. Feedback received will be used when developing the final TESNI 2019 publication and the associated dispatch modelling.

Where possible, please provide evidence, such as reports and your analysis, to support your feedback. Supporting evidence can be emailed to the TES NI team at scenarios@soni.ltd.uk.

All information provided as part of your response will remain confidential and be used for reasonable business purposes only. We will provide an anonymised summary of the feedback received as part of the final publication.

For more details on the process please visit our Energy Future webpage: http://www.soni.ltd.uk/customer-and-industry/energy-future/

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Question 1: Has SONI provided adequate background information on the scenario planning process in Section 2 of the TESNI?

☐	Yes	☐	No	☐	Not Sure

Please use the grey box below to provide any additional feedback (500 characters max.):

Question 2: Was adequate information provided in Section 2.3 of the TESNI to explain how the different SONI publications work together?

☐	Yes	☐	No	☐	Not Sure

Please use the grey box below to provide any additional feedback (500 characters max.):

Question 3: Please rank the policy measures, discussed in Section 2.4 of the TESNI, from 1 to 4 (with 1 being the most important and 4 the least important):

Low Cost Intermittent Renewables

Low Carbon Heating

Energy Efficiency in Homes and Businesses

Deployment of Electric Vehicles (EVs)

Question 4: Were the three TESNI scenarios (Least Effort, Modest Progress, and Addressing Climate Change) adequately explained in Section 3:

☐	Yes	☐	No	☐	Not Sure

If not, please provide comment on how this might be improved (500 characters max.):

Question 5: Table 1 on page 29 of the TESNI sets out the design characteristics for the three scenarios. Is SONI being ambitious enough in its selection of scenarios in the context of climate change and the need to decarbonise our economy?

☐	Not Ambitious Enough	☐	Suitable	☐	Too Ambitious

If you feel that one or more of the scenarios could be improved, please tell us how this might be achieved in your view using the grey box below (500 characters max.):

Question 6: Do you have any comments on our assumptions in relation to Demand in section 5 of the TESNI (please use the grey box to provide comments; 500 characters max.)?

Question 7: Do you have any comments on the generation mix included in our scenarios in section 6 of the TESNI (500 characters max.)?

Question 8: Do you have any comments on the generation and demand locations presented in section 8 of the TESNI (500 characters max.)?

Question 9: Please rank the following low carbon solutions for decarbonising Northern Ireland residential from 1 to 5, with 1 being the most important and 5 the least important:

EVs

Heat pumps

Micro renewables

Smart Meters

Reduction in Oil Heating

Question 10: Did you find the TES NI consultation document informative and useful?

☐	Yes	☐	No	☐	Not Sure

If not, please provide comment on how this might be improved (500 characters max.):

Question 11: Please explain how you or your company might use the TESNI and related publications (500 characters max.)?

Question 12: Is there any additional information that SONI could provide, alongside the publications, to aid how you or your company use these documents (500 characters max.)?

Question 13: Do you have any other comments you would like to provide regarding the TESNI?