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Prospering from the Energy Revolution:
Six in Sixty Mini Series
Episode 1: PFER overview
Thursday 5th November 2020

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Prospering from the Energy Revolution:
Local foundations for a better net zero.
Rob Saunders
PFER Challenge Director, UKRI
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THE
REVOLUTION IS
NOW!

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WHY
LOCAL ?

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Prospering from the Energy Revolution
- Programme Aims and activity
Future energy model proving
Prove Investible
Scalable Local
Energy Business
Models
Unlock Finance
Accelerate New
Products &
Services to
Commercialisation
Build UK
Leadership
Objectives Activities
ERIS

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Since April
2018,
we’ve been
busy….

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Groundbreaking local projects
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Demonstrators (half-way through)
Detailed Designs (just starting)

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Demonstrating….
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Integrated intelligently
to please consumers
In scalable, replicable
and investable models
Town-Scale power, heat
and mobility services

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Thankyou
@RobS_energy
rob.saunders@innovateuk.ukri.org
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Demo Projects
Derek Allen
UKRI
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REFLEX – archetypal
island renewable
virtual energy system
LEO – transition to
Distributed System
Operator
ESO – Electrification of transport and
heat + transmission connected hybrid
energy storage
West Sussex
- Distributed asset
management including
renewables, heat networks,
battery storage, EVs
Four large scale demonstrators - trials of digitally-enabled local energy markets with
1,000s of connected energy assets

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Energy Superhub Oxford
Tim Rose
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Powering a zero carbon Oxford

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Energy Superhub Oxford | 15
Our consortiumEnergy Superhub Oxford (ESO) is a world-first project
pioneering an integrated approach to decarbonising
power, transport and heat to accelerate Oxford’s
journey to zero carbon.
It will showcase a powerful network of:
• hybrid battery energy storage
• rapid electric vehicle charging
• low carbon heating, and
• smart energy management
providing a model for cities around the world to cut
carbon emissions and improve air quality.
What is Energy Superhub Oxford?

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Enabling more renewable energy
• World’s largest hybrid battery energy storage
system
• 50MW hybrid battery will combine 50MW lithium-
ion and 2MW vanadium flow technology with
‘overdrive’
• Connected to the transmission network
• The system will help to balance electricity supply
and demand and maximise use of renewable
energy
• Optimisation & Trading Engine will unlock synergies
and optimise system for Firm Frequency Response
(FFR) and energy trading, including day-ahead and
intra-day markets and Balancing Mechanism
Power innovation

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Kick starting an electric vehicle revolution
• World’s first transmission-connected EV charging network –
8km providing up to 25MW
• Public superhub with enough power for 100 ultra-rapid
chargers
• First 40 of Council’s 340 EVs electrified – plans for 25% of
fleet by 2023
• Smart charging technology will shift demand overnight to
reduce costs
• ‘Try before you buy’ scheme supporting Hackney Carriage
drivers to make switch to zero emission vehicles
• Capacity to grow in line with EV adoption – Buses, fleets etc.
Transport innovation

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Low carbon heating solutions
• 300 homes and commercial properties in and around Oxford will
benefit from innovative low carbon heating solution which
combines:
- Ground source heat pumps
- Smart controls
- Time of use tariff
• Optimises heat production for cost and carbon savings
• Shared ground loop arrays and new ‘shoebox’ heat pumps make
technology easier and cheaper to install
• Users benefit from lower bills and kWh usage at cheaper and
cleaner times of day
• First 60 installations at Blackbird Leys with Stonewater underway
Heat innovation

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Buses (120 city fleet &
Stagecoach)
Then extension to
commercial fleets, logistics
hubs, other Park & Rides,
Motorway Service Areas
and more…
And this is the first of 40
‘Superhub’ projects!
ESO Tomorrow

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Powering a zero carbon Oxford
Thank you!

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Designs Projects
David Richardson
UKRI
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UK Research
and Innovation
Detailed Designs of Smart Local
Energy Systems
David Richardson
Innovation Lead for Energy Systems

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UK Research
and Innovation
• Analysis of current generation, demand and
consumption assets
• User research to understand consumer,
business and industrial needs of energy
• Development of functional local energy
markets to promote the roll-out of low
carbon technologies
• Development of legal entities, financial
structures and procurement models
• A comprehensive, investment ready energy system
design to meet the localities net-the zero ambitions
Quantification of potential risks and
benefits, including;
• Energy system impacts
• Economic Benefits (e.g. energy costs)
• Environmental impacts (e.g. CO2, local pollution etc)
• A strong focus on digital tools for planning
and data enabled business models

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UK Research
and Innovation

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UK Research
and Innovation
Energy Revolution:
Design project locations
Detailed Designs
• Coleraine
• Warrington
• Liverpool
• Coventry
• Greater Manchester
• Peterborough
• Milford Haven
• Islington (London)
• Southend
• Rugeley

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UK Research
and Innovation
Urban,
mixed
residential
and
commercial
(x1)
Coastal urban town (x2)
Small city or large town with
mixed consumer types (x3)
Ports and industrial communities (x1)
Large city (x2)
Regional town and
surrounding rural area (x2)
Project archetypes covered by the Detailed Design projects

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Detailed Designs RESO (Coventry)
Kate Ashworth
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RESO – Regional Energy Systems Operator
A detailed design for a new smart local energy system for Coventry
Kate Ashworth
Energy Infrastructure Lead
Energy Capital, West Midlands Combined Authority

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Energy Capital
Source: https://www.regen.co.uk/local-leadership-to-transform-our-energy-
system/
Energy Capital is the smart energy innovation partnership
for the West Midlands.
The Energy Capital partnership works together to co-
ordinate collaborative public-private investment into smart
energy innovation across the region.
Working with local authorities, regulators, energy
companies and national government, the Energy Capital
team, based within the West Midlands Combined
Authority, is responsible for the delivery of the Regional
Energy Strategy and securing the investment and powers
necessary to enable this.
Our aim is to create an attractive environment for energy
innovation to thrive in the West Midlands and position the
region as a leader in the global transition to net zero.

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Project partners
Camirus Ltd

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RESO – What’s the big idea?

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Inputs Outputs
Main activities
City of Coventry Growth
and Carbon Objectives
Investment plans
Asset data
Operational data
West Midlands Local
Industrial and Energy
Strategies
WPD
Cadent Gas
TfWM
City Council
Institutionandorganisationdesign
WP6
WP 1 Stakeholder engagement
WP 7 Finance and investment
WP 8 Project management
Validated smart
local energy system
design for Coventry
Operating model
for Coventry SLES
Institutional and
organisational
model for large
scale investment
and regional
replication
Data
foundations
WP2
WP4
Smart local energy
infrastructure design
WP3
Operating model
(market) design
WP 5 Design validation
Informed design

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Energy Innovation Zone
• Coventry designated one of the first
Energy Innovation Zones (EIZ)
• BEIS funded, OFGEM sponsored project
to define the process of establishing an
EIZ
• Useful tools to be integrated into ERIS
toolkit
• Value Capture
• Cost benefit analysis

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Where PFER adds value
Recognised challenges
• Development of a truly integrated
solutions
• Want to move away from a more
individual project based approach
• Silos vs Systems
• Financing a systems approach
• Reducing risk to leverage funding
How PFER helps tackle these
challenges
• Resource to develop an entirely cross-
vector approach with all the right
partners
• A spotlight on the role of local and
combined authorities in the gestation
of local energy systems
• Development of tangible models to
take to market to gauge appetite
• Wider resource of learning across the
PFER programme

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Key Tech Projects
Harsh Pershad
UKRI
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The PFER ISCF is developing new technologies to enable smart local energy
systems
20% bill
reduction
through
energy trading Field-trials of
innovative
energy
storage
Real-time
markets
Blockchain
+Virtual
Power Plant +
Artificial
Intelligence
Connected
user hardware
and software
for heat
systems
Smarter &
faster EV
charging
Heat network
metering
Examples from the 16 projects in the £4.5m PFER ISCF Key Technology
Components portfolio
Correspondence to harsh.Pershad@innovateuk.ukri.org

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Project Title Theme(s) Lead (Partners)
Domestic Infrastructure and Network
Optimisation (DINO)
Distribution network and
Evs communications
Evergreen Smart Power Ltd.
(Energy Assets, myenergi)
ADVENT – Advanced Data-driven Virtual
Electricity Network Tracking
Software-as-a-service
for optimising using data
on distribution network
Crowdcharge
(U. of Reading, Hanger19)
Smart HOme Control for ENergy System
Integration (SHOCENSI)
Optimise value of assets
through time-of-use
Powervault Ltd.
Bank Energi III End-to-end software for
energy trading
Consortio Ltd.
(LSBU, WWU, Fintricity, IBECCS,
CarbonTrack, 4D Energy Advisory,
Tonik Energy)
URBAN-X , Urban Local energy trading
exchange
Peer-to-peer, Virtual
Power Plant, Blockchain
Qbots
(Keele Uni)
v-powerChain: a distributed and intelligent
virtual power plant for micro- to medium-scale
renewables
Blockchain, AI, Virtual
Power Plant
UrbanChain Ltd
Smarter local electrical energy systems
Correspondence to harsh.Pershad@innovateuk.ukri.org

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Project Title Theme Lead (Partners)
Port Energy Systems Optimisation (PESO) Smart energy for ports Blue Tech Ventures Ltd.
(Swanbarton, Portsmouth
International Port, ESC)
EV Fleet-centred Local Energy System Software platform for EV
fleets/prosumers to
optimise infrastructure
UKPN
(Moixa, UPS, Cross River
Partnership)
Maximising Grid Services from Electric
Vehicles (M-GSEV)
Integrate grid services
into EV charging
EV.Energy Ltd.
(Gengame)
Hypervolt Optimised residential EV
charging
Hypervolt
Rail-Charge Use rail electric network
to charge EVs at stations
Rina Consulting
Birmingham Uni, Electric BlueUK
Smarter local transport energy systems
Correspondence to harsh.Pershad@innovateuk.ukri.org

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Project Title Theme Lead (Partners)
Open Protocol Cloud Metering for Heat
Networks
IoT Sycous Ltd
CODES: The Control of District-heating
Efficiency through Smart data-driven models
IoT/Machine Learning VRM Technology Ltd
Thermochemical seasonal solar energy
storage for building applications
(SeasonalStorage)
Solar + heat storage +
smart controller
Environmental Process Systems
Ltd.
Heat Networks as Flexible Grid Assets API for heat network
management
Minibems
Guru Engage: increasing customer
engagement on heat networks to enable
innovative commercial models
Hardware and software
for heat network billing
Guru Systems
(Fairheat)
Smarter local heat energy systems
Correspondence to harsh.Pershad@innovateuk.ukri.org

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Key Tech Projects: Guru Systems
Nic Mason
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Prospering from the Energy Revolution: Six in Sixty
Nic Mason, Chief Product Officer - Guru Systems

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Intelligent technology for the future of heat
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Guru Systems develops intelligent technology to make energy
systems more transparent, lower cost and lower carbon.
8
years providing
IoT for energy
systems
30+
people in our growing
team
28k+
devices delivered
across the UK

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Guru Smart Stat Guru Engage IHD Guru Pay II
Smart thermostat technology
for property managers, not
just residents
Funding competition
Key technology components for local energy systems
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Standalone in-home display
helps to engage residents on
heat networks with their
energy use
Next generation payment
management platform for the
future of heat tariffs
In pilot In development In development

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Thank you
Nic Mason
nic.mason@gurusystems.com
www.gurusystems.com
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Data Projects
Matt Hastings
UKRI
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PFER Data Competitions
“Modernising Energy Data”

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1. Energy Data Taskforce (EDTF): ‘Articulate problem, identify solutions’
2. Modernising Energy Data Access (MEDA): £1.9m SBRI
*
- ‘Make data available and accessible’
3. Energy Data Best Practice Guidance
4. Local Energy Data Innovation (LEDI): local energy user needs and use cases
https://www.regen.co.uk/publications/local-energy-data-innovation/
5. Modernising Energy Data Applications (MEDApps): £2m SBRI – ‘Stimulate market’
Apply now: https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/736/overview (closes 18 Nov)
Modernising Energy Data Strategy
*Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI)

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Modernising Energy Data Strategy: Long Term Vision
BEIS
Government Dept’s
Collaborate and Utilise
Energy
MEDA ingests data
from multiple sources
FinanceTransport
DCMS
Regulatory bodies
collaborate and utilise
Buildings Weather Socio – demo Geo-spatial
DFT
HMT
GDS
OFGEMOFWAT
OFCOM
CO
FSA
ORR ICO
More informed/agile
policy
More informed/agile
regulation
MEDApps uses the
data to build new
applications
Consumer / business /
societal benefits

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Ice Breaker One
Gavin Starks
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1. Develop an open standard that
enables open marketplaces for data-
sharing to flourish
2. Lay the foundations for
interoperable and cohesive
energy data infrastructure
3. Build on existing work and
investments in existing initiatives
to enable discovery and use

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Four Advisory Groups; 60 individuals
Meetings of Advisory Groups show strong engagement
and awareness.
Core policy, regulatory, operational and technical
dimensions well understood.
Use Case developed, shared and endorsed by groups.
Core components of prototype Open Energy
Governance Platform (OEGP) and knowledge graph
completed, live, and ready to access data.
Regular, weekly updates from w/c 26th October.
At the halfway point, we have made good
progress towards our objectives:
1. Stakeholder engagement:
Three-month programme convening
industry & public sector to deliver a
minimum viable Open Energy
Standard based on needs
1. OEGP and knowledge graph
prototyping & testing:
Develop a prototype OEGP through
which market rules can be applied in
response to the needs articulated in
the MEDA Phase One Discovery.
Overview — progress

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Advisory Group 1 — User, Market and Societal Needs
Local Authority Use Case
Understand the variables and impact on DNO
‘headroom’ and any transmission constraints as they
plan LCT retrofit
Detailed needs analysis
Across all aspects of the customer journey to establish
functionality and service delivery model
Business model
Implications for charging and the economics through
the provisioning chain
Market requirements
Features and requirements for both Third Party
Provider and Open Energy Governance Platform
Benefits
Systems thinking: Environmental, Societal, Economic
Local Authority Use Case:
Provides context across all Advisory Groups

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under a Creative Commons attribution license
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Join us on 19th November where will
review this phase of the project
as part of London Climate Action Week

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Siemens
Andrew Smyth
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Creating a ‘Energy Data Service’ to enable
energy data transparency and increased
data access & exchange
How
Addressing the fundamental problem of
exchanging digital energy information
between data providers and data users
Enabling
Accessible
Energy Data

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Removing barriers to data access for stakeholders
CENTRAL DATA EXCHANGE ARCHITECTURE
DATA COLLATIONBROKER
Data Provider
A
Data Provider
B
Data Provider
C
Data Provider
D
Asset Register
Data Catalogue
Energy Map
API Tooling
Data Provider
N+
Innovation via
Applications
e.g., EV integration
Engage, Share,
Roadmap & Incubate
Insight-Arena
MARKETPLACE
Future Proofing Principles
§ Flexible API tooling to enable
wide integration with the meta-
model
§ Flexible & Extensible Data
Structure
§ Brokerage services to
interconnect data requestors and
providers
§ User Centric-Roadmapping

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Engagement and Data Discovery
Data Publishers
• Identifying and accessing data that
enable user stories
• Uncovering data publisher needs
(licensing, formats, interfaces)
• Understanding data structures,
standards and terms
Data Users
• Understanding user stories
• Uncovering user needs (licensing,
formats, interfaces)
• Making data understandable
Collaboration
User Insight Data Discovery Glossary
• User Story refinement
• Development of an Insight Arena
to better understand potential
users and their needs
• Identifying datasets that are
required for the key user stories
• Understanding and linking data
• Working with other relevant
projects to contribute to an open
glossary
• Identifying disagreements,
overlaps and gaps in the
landscape

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EnergyRev
Jo Patterson
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The Energy Revolution
Research Consortium
Dr Joanne Patterson
Welsh School of Architecture,
Cardiff University
November 2020

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The EnergyREV consortium
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Consortium of :
§ 32 co-investigators
§ 22 Universities
Institutions
Policy, regulation, markets and
governance issues around local
energy systems
Business and finance
Local energy businesses
practices and industry
engagement
Data and AI
Expertise across wide
ranging cyber-physical
issues
End users and consumers
Social science understanding
of end user research and
engagement
Multi-vector “whole” systems
Electricity, heat and transport,
and system integration
Energy and environment
Interactions between energy
and environmental systems
Exploring challenges around smart local energy
systems from an interdisciplinary and whole-
systems viewpoint.

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Informing projects’
future plans for
delivery and scaling
Integrating
knowledge from
global activities
Systematic research
and analyses of
longer-term
requirements and
innovations
EnergyREV within Prospering from the Energy Revolution
(PFER)
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Capitalising on global research and innovation
Synthesised knowledge Novel research
Exploring smart local energy
concepts within PFER
projects
§ Identifying how Smart Local Energy System solutions can be effective in the longer term and at scale
§ Integrating the learning from PFER and global activities
§ Considering the innovations required for timescales beyond the PFER programme
§ Supporting projects to realise ambitions beyond the PFER timescales
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Developing a whole systems understanding:
Capture and synthesise learning and knowledge from research streams and
demonstrators, provide whole systems meaningful insights, and use these insights to
deliver learnings from the demonstrators.
Supporting scale up: Explore issues such as resource limits, non-linearities, trade-offs of
different effects and along supply chains, and variations by place constraining replication.
Use these insights to develop tools and trainings to help deliver smart local energy
systems.
Cyber-physical
systems
Business and financial
practices
Policy, regulation,
markets, governance
User engagement
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Engagement and Dissemination Activities
Knowledge
Management
Hub
EnergyREV
programme
website
@EnergyREV_UK
Knowledge sharing activities Targeted engagement activities
Stakeholder
database
Targeted
newsletters 1:1 meetings Activity based
workshops
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Staying in the loop
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www.energyrev.org.uk
@EnergyREV_UK
info@energyrev.org.uk
Contact us
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Energy Revolution Integration
Service
Our role in Prospering from the Energy
Revolution
Anna Stegman
Technical Manager
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A map of Climate Emergency declarations across UK as of
July 2019 (iGov website)
PFER Project locations: blue = demos, pink = detailed
designs, purple = concepts

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Learn from the leaders within and outside of PFER.
Understand what would have helped them get to where they are now more efficiently.

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It will be a neutral hub for SLES.
We’ll include and signpost knowledge, skills and services
from within PFER and from across the sector, creating
opportunities for users and contributors alike.

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Find out more…
Data and Digital - 10th Dec 2020
from 1.30 pm to 4.30 pm
People and Skills –
13th Jan 2021
Technology and Infrastructure –
4th March 2021
https://es.catapult.org.uk/events/uk-
local-authorities-delivering-sles-digital-
and-data/

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Thank you
Please get in touch:
Anna.Stegman@es.catapult.org.uk

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Future Strategy
Matt Hastings
UKRI
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Integrated (Net Zero) Living Systems
Objectives:
• Deliver a more prosperous society
• Maximise efficient delivery of net zero (using a whole systems approach)
• Supercharge economic growth and investment

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Energy WaterBuilt Env.Transport
Cross
Government
Communications
Cross
Regulatory
Cross
Industry
Data and Digitalisation
Systems integration in practice
Using a cross industry, cross government, cross regulatory MVP* approach to innovation
*Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Cross Regulatory Funds delivered via the Regulators Pioneers Fund tbc
Integrated, industry led solutions that drive…
…collaborative approaches to regulation and policy
UKRIFUNDED

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Outcomes and opportunity
• Cross sector business growth
• A revolution in valuable consumer products and services that make people
happier, healthier and save them time and money
• Understanding of locational needs of net zero system users, tailoring of
solutions to support them to thrive
• Industry led but integrating with government policy and regulation that
supercharge the ability of UK business to grow and scale
• A more efficient route to net zero by working via an integrated whole system
approach instead of via siloes of disconnected activity

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