Making community energy a reality

Keith Budden Strategic Partnership Manager

Our Company

Providing a fully integrated solution for all your sustainable energy needs

Community

Energy

Infrastructure

Services

Sustainable

Cities

Micro-

generation

Consultancy

Services

Why is Community Energy low carbon?

5

If power is generated

closer to populated

areas then heat can

be distributed to

customers via heat

network.

The Efficiency of

decentralised system

sized for heat

demand can be in

excess of 80%

Source: ‘Community Energy: Planning, Development and Delivery’

Cranbrook and Skypark Energy Solution

Energy Centre to comprise:

• 1 x 1.4 MWe Gas CHP

• 2 x Advanced Thermal Gasification (ATG) units linked to 2 x 1.4 MWe CHP

• 5 x 4 MWth Natural Gas boilers

• Thermal Stores

Connected to Cranbrook and Skypark via c75KM of heat network

Output Capacity:

Heat Capacity 25.4 MW

Power Capacity 4.2 MW

Development will save

c13,000 tonnes of CO2 per

year

Heat provided for 3500

homes + 1.5msqft

commercial space

A Communal Energy system can be owned, operated and funded by an Energy

Services Company (An ESCO)

An ESCO will maintain the system and can provide full customer billing provision

What is an ESCO?

Energy Centre looking NE : October 2012

Photo: ©Still Imaging

District Heating Pipework – October 2011

Cranbrook New Community looking West (Energy Centre top left

on Skypark site: Oct 2012. Photo: ©Still Imaging

Microgeneration

Smart, efficient homes, built to clear and consistent standards

Private Building

Smart LED

Lighting

ICT monitoring

and control

platform (a

scaled - down

version of

UOS)

Local Data

Center

Smart

meters

Main supply

Public Building

Smart LED

Lighting

Local Data

Center

Smart

meters

Main supply

Overall ICT

optimising

platform (the

UOS from

LivingPlanit )

Overall Data

Center

w

e

b

Building

Manager

and users

Building

Manager

and users

ICT monitoring

and control

platform (a

scaled - down

version of

UOS)

Sensors

Sensors

Field devices Business controls Network

management

Demand driven

Building Energy Management System

Renewable

energy

Renewable

energy

Fuel

cell

Fuel

cell

Optimised: Energy savings,

CO2 emissions, Maintenance.

Distributed energy – the future

Food production

using waste industrial heat and CO2

“The vision must be championed and

owned by the local authority and its

partners”

“Delivering this vision can be

best achieved through

partnerships and risk sharing”

“Integrated approach to

designing and deploying

energy, digital , transport and

waste infrastructure can

significantly improve

sustainability”

How to deliver a low carbon city

A ‘coalition of the willing’:

• Independent chair – John Rigby

• EDDC/ECC/DCC

• E.ON

• Exeter Chamber

• University

• Met Office

• RD&E Hospital

• Bicton College

• Memorandum of understanding

• Partnership approach

• Major Projects

• Three more district heating networks

• Establishment of an ESCO

• Energy efficient homes and buildings

• Photovoltaics

Exeter and Devon Low Carbon Task Force