Acknowledgements
Funding and support for this work has been provided at various times by BEIS, the University of Warwick, the University of Birmingham, the Energy Systems Catapult, Climate-KIC, and the three Local Enterprise Partnerships of the Black Country, Greater Birmingham and Solihull, and Coventry and Warwickshire. Key local stakeholders also gave freely of their time and knowledge through the Energy Capital partnership and in many one-to-one discussions, and the support and contributions of Birmingham, Coventry, Solihull, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Sandwell and Walsall and Warwickshire Councils; National Grid, Western Power Distribution, Severn Trent Water, Cadent, Jaguar Land Rover, Webster and Horsfall, Sustainability West Midlands, Aston University, Ecuity Consulting, and Westley Group are particularly appreciated. We are also indebted to all the organisations and individuals who responded to the consultation exercise and attended stakeholder events (see appendix III). Your input was all digested and appreciated and has been reflected as far as practical in this final version.