2. • Cardiff’s Energy Challenges
• Progress to date
• Ambitions for the future
• The Innovation Story
• How and why
• Benefits and barriers
• What next?
OUTLINE:
3. Fastest growing UK city –30,000 new homes, 40,000 jobs
Carbon reduction targets - local, national and international
Liveable City ambitions and Future Generations Act
Affordability and security of supply
- fuel poverty
- local business and inward investment
- transportation
£10m annual energy bill for Council buildings
Cardiff’s Energy Challenge
4. Installed energy efficiency measures in 50 schools and Council buildings
Installed energy efficiency measures in nearly 2000 homes (ARBED/ECO)
Bill Validation and Automatic Meter Reading Incl “Carbon Culture”
Behaviour change strategies (inc remote management)
Re:Fit Cymru - £2m 16/17
Cyd Cymru Energy Switching Scheme
Energy Management and Retrofit
5. Radyr Weir Hydro - 0.4MW
Roof Mounted Solar (Estate)- 0.74 MW
Roof Mounted Solar (Residential) -100 schemes
Viridor Energy From Waste - 30MW (+20MW heat?)
Celda AD plant (Under const.) – 1.5MW (+1MW heat?)
Landfill Gas 4MW
Misc biomass/Ground Source/Air Source/Solar HW
RENEWABLES @ 36MW
6. 6% reduction in carbon emissions in Council Estate 15/16
16% of Cardiff’s per-head electricity consumption from local renewable sources,
(4th highest urban area in England & Wales (Green Alliance City League Table 2015))
35% decrease in per capita carbon emissions 2005/2014
(DEIS/DECC Carbon Dioxide Emissions statistics for 2016).
2020 EU Covenant of Mayors target met
(reduce per capita CO2 emissions by 26% by 2020)
OUTCOMES:
11. Energy Innovation – Why bother?
Austerity
Mainstream funding = requires “invest to save” business cases
Carbon Reduction targets remain
Working collaboratively to solve unanswered questions
Engaging with local academia, R&D and entrepreneurship
Councils can offer:
• A host of problems to be solved
• Large estates to enable prototyping and demonstration
• Market exposure and promotion
• Strict compliance frameworks!
12. Support, Funding and De-risking
Energy Innovation – How?
Aspiration/
problem
Partner
conversation
Project
development
Consortium
building
Funding
opportunity
PROJECT
BID
£€
Grant funding to support a “leap of faith”
13. Projects:
• Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI)
– “Pre-commercial procurement”
• Energy Catylist
– Innovation support
• EU FP7/Horizon 2020
– Member state collaboration for innovation
14. Heritage Retrofit SBRI
The “problem”
• More than 30% of buildings in Wales are over 100 years old
• Mainstream retrofit sometimes conflicts with heritage protection
£500k to run an SBRI Competition for new solutions
• 30 applicants, 6 feasibility projects, 3 demonstrators
Q-Bot Limited
Underfloor Insulation Robot
Okotech Ltd Heatboss®
wireless zoned heating control solution.
Vivus Lime
Quick drying lime render and insulation panels
15. Wasted expenditure
Unrealised energy
Failure Demand
Portable Renewables SBRI
The “problem”
• Vacant and underused land
• Not enough renewable generation in cities
• Can energy be a temporary “meanwhile” use?
£1m to run an SBRI Competition
• 35 applicants, 4 feasibility projects, 2 demonstrators
Solar ROLLARAY with storage
Trail er Flexible solar sheets with storage
17. GROUNDWATER HEAT PROJECT
• Grangetown Nursery School Heat pump
• Sensors and impact monitoring in 60 boreholes
• 3D city scale geological mapping and heat model
19. EU FP7 PERFORMER
Portable, Exhaustive, reliable, Flexible and Optimized appRoach to Monitoring and
Evaluation of building eneRgy performance
• Understand why building actual energy
performance is different to building predicted
energy performance
• Look to reduce this gap by better management of
the buildings HVAC systems through ICT
controls
20. EU FP7 WISDOMWater analytics and Intelligent Sensing for Demand Optimised Management
Demand
Management
(Behaviour Change)
21. Outcomes
• 9 live projects
• £2.2m external funding and 30 partners
• 9 first-of-a-kind technologies/processes being
demonstrated in Cardiff’s estate
• Progress in austerity
• Carbon reduction and energy savings
• Economic development and SME support
22. But…
• Dependent on external funding
• Fiercely competitive
• Opportunistic
• Difficulty to be strategic
• LA’s not “on the circuit”
• Funding rules sometimes prohibitive
• EU funding future
23. Next Steps:
• A more strategic approach?
• A network of potential collaborators?
• Broad target areas:
• Heat
• System integration
• Smart energy management
• Smart cities
• Moving from demonstration to market (the “valley of death”)?
• Keeping the conversation live?
