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Energetik - Ponders End Heat Network Retrofit Extension A pilot study to connect different types of existing housing to the Ponders End Heat Network, specifically across a variety of tenures to understand the issues and develop solutions, with a view to developing a scalable proposition for the wider industry. Key outcomes included the detailed planning of the customer journey and establishment of a workable techno-economic proposition. Ener-vate - Mersey Heat Mersey Heat is Peel NRE’s proposal to develop, install and operate a DHN and ESCo to provide heat to residential and commercial buildings within Peel L&P’s Liverpool Waters development and surrounding areas. The project will provide low carbon and cost-effective heat to over 9,000 homes and 4m sqft of commercial space utilising Water Source Heat Pumps as its primary generation. Kensa Utilities - Heat the Streets, Cornwall Heat the Streets demonstrates a world-first approach to the mass deployment of heat pumps. Boreholes are connected in the road, offering a network mimicking the gas network, leaving residents in new and existing homes in Cornwall to just plug in their ground-source heat pump. This offers the lowest cost of heating and a scalable approach mass rollout. Ove Arup & Partners - Clustering for Warmth, Leeds Northern Housing Awards award winner, Leeds City Council, have developed a social housing roll-out scheme successfully delivering the first clusters of high-rise blocks decarbonisation retrofit. The collaboration of the Council with Arup (technical advisors) and Cenergist (D&B contractor) are rolling out ground source borehole array ambient loop heat pump solutions and fire sprinkler systems to over 26 blocks of flats. Switch2 - Greenwich Millenium Village The first two phases of the Greenwich Millennium Village (GMV) were built between 2000 and 2009 and include 1095 residential homes, shops, and retail premises. The residents were dissatisfied with the continual poor performance and unreliability of the existing heating systems. The retrofit project replaces the heart of the network in situ, removing five of the underperforming energy centres and, replacing with single integrated energy scheme, with no loss of supply to residents. This is made possible by utilising an innovative pro-consumer arrangement that intelligently selects heat sources from across the site according to the demands of our customers. The new configuration immediately reduces the carbon emissions by 150 tonnes per annum, increases efficiency by 20%, and sets the development on a long-term route to net zero. Switch2 - Greenford Quay, West London Since adoption, Switch2 have continued to deliver exceptional efficiency at Greenford Quay resulting in significant cost and carbon savings. The implementation of next generation technologies have allowed Switch2 to be able to proactively monitor, adjust and implement change during the phased occupation at the new build development. Switch2, in partnership with HermeticaBlack and Greystar have reduced total network heat losses by over 60% and have raised overall scheme efficiency (Heat and Electricity Generated) by 10% - overcoming the traditional challenge of high energy losses and supply/demand misalignment on phased residential heat networks. AMP Clean Energy - Muntons’ Low Carbon Bioenergy Centre, Stowmarket Muntons has taken an industry leading approach to decarbonising manufacturing processes through developing two biomass energy centres which will result in combined carbon savings of over 60%. The £16.5 million trailblazing project at Muntons’ Stowmarket site – funded, developed and operated by AMP Clean Energy – will save 15.5 thousand tonnes of carbon per year, helping Muntons to exceed its science-based target. Project: Power & Flexibility Octopus Energy Group - Intelligent Octopus (Kraken) KrakenFlex has enabled Octopus Energy to provide a smart EV tariff, which incentivises green, and cheap energy to be utilised, in turn for control of when their cars will be charged. This allows for an ever-growing flexible load to be shifted, to reduce peaks, and fully utilise when the wind is blowing or the sun is shining! Piclo - Piclo Flex Piclo Flex is the flagship marketplace by Piclo, a software company with a mission to decarbonise the grid. In 2022, the marketplace had been selected to support National Grid ESO's Local Constraint Market in Scotland and announced global collaborations with National Grid in the US, E-REDES in Portugal and ESO in Lithuania to launch DSO flex markets. Its launch of pan-regional flexibility markets has solidified its status as the leading independent marketplace for flexibility services with further developments on the horizon for 2023 Innovation: Digital Evergreen Energy - Homely The Homely DFS Assist service worked to help protect and reduce load on the grid in line with National Grid ESO’ Domestical Flexibility Service. Homely customers who took part in the trial were able to benefit from their heat pump automatically switching off - protecting the grid, while ensuring the was minimal impact to their homes comfort. Insite Energy - VANTAGE Insite Energy’s bespoke client portal, VANTAGE, gives clients a vantage point of their heat networks through readily available and accessible data on both an individual scheme and full portfolio level. The one-stop, cloud-based portal has proven to reduce costs and improve efficiencies across heat networks, as well as better the lives of the residents living on them. Open Energi - Dynamic Demand 2.0, Zenobē Energy, Hill Farm In collaboration with Zenobē Energy and Erova Energy, Open Energi has deployed Dynamic Demand 2.0 technology at the Hill Farm battery in Leicestershire. The site, home to a 10MW/12MWh Tesla battery, seamlessly stacks ancillary services and wholesale market trading through its fully automated trading and optimisation whilst remaining within optimum warranty and state of charge management constraints Ove Arup & Partners - ESOP: Arup’s Energy Systems Optimisation and Planning digital toolsuite Arup’s Energy System Optimisation and Planning (ESOP) digital toolsuite is powering Arup’s whole systems modelling to support energy system decarbonisation planning and investment. The product of a six-year energy and digital development programme, ESOP has supported many applications around the world, including local area energy planning (LAEP), campus decarbonisation, heat network zoning, captured carbon shipping, and hydrogen production facility siting. Switch2 - ICON Connected HIU Switch2’s ICON connected Heat Interface Unit (HIU) represents the next generation of HIU technology. ICON is the first HIU to be Amazon IoT enabled with a 5G NB-IoT modem, providing access to real-time data through a proprietary cloud-based dashboard, allowing network managers to be alerted to, and resolve issues remotely, making truly proactive operation and maintenance a reality. Innovation: Technology E.ON City Energy Solutions - Citigen Decarbonisation Project The Citigen retrofit project aims to decarbonise the City of London district energy scheme via 4MW combined heating and 2.8MW cooling heat pumps. The heat pumps recycle low grade heat from 3 sources: Citigen processes waste heat, the cooling network and 200m deep ground boreholes; before upgrading it to 80oC and feeding the district heating network with low carbon heat. Ener-vate - Glasgow Waters Peel NRE are developing a large-scale WSHP-led heat network in Glasgow (Glasgow Waters). The project will utilise heat from the River Clyde to provide competitive, low-carbon heat to the Peel L&P Yorkhill Quay development, Therme, Riverside Museum, SEC, Clydeside Distillery and other surrounding developments. Glasgow Waters is forecast to save c. 65,800 tonnes CO2 over the lifetime of the project. Enabler (Organisation) Chirpy Heat - Enabling The Hyde Group to transform themselves into heat network managers How can our heat network industry build better heat network management? This is the story of how Chirpy Heat enabled one of the UK’s largest property portfolio managers to transform themselves into heat network managers. It is a story with lessons for the whole heat network industry and how we must urgently develop a new focus for heat network growth to ensure the industry remains at the centre of the low carbon future. FairHeat - FairHeat Technical Specifications Over the last five years, FairHeat Technical Specifications have been developed to de-risk and standardise the approach to high performing heat networks. These innovative Technical Specifications have been adopted by multiple developers and ESCOs in the UK and shared across the industry to be included in minimum standards such as CP1 (2020). West Sussex County Council - Re-Energise Manor Royal local energy community The Re-Energise Manor Royal Local Energy Community (REMR) enables companies on one of the South East’s largest business districts to invest in low carbon energy together and share the benefits. The aim is to generate, share and consume clean energy, reduce costs, improve resilience, and achieve net zero. West Sussex County Council had a key role in establishing the LEC. Net Zero Leader (Organisation) EQUANS UK & Ireland Equans’ commitment to net zero is clearly exemplified through our net zero programme and the development of decarbonisation roadmaps for our city centre heat networks. We work closely with partners to support their decarbonisation aspirations and deliver our own commitments, embedding decarbonisation activities throughout our organisation so staff at all levels are motivated to contribute to our net zero journey. Salix Finance Salix Finance Salix Finance has supported over 17,000 public sector projects, enabling organisations to slash carbon by 875,000 tonnes and energy bills by £220m per year. University of East London Siemens The University of East London’s community is made up of 25,195 total students from 140 different countries. It’s leading the green revolution by transitioning its estate to net zero by 2030 and ensuring all graduates have the skills and resilience to succeed in their careers and make a positive impact on society and the planet. Rising Star Alan Rocker - Insite Energy Alan Rocker is ‘Technical Manager’, engineer, trainer, and all-around support at Insite Energy. Having a range of customer-facing duties to fulfil as an engineer, as well as improving the processes and standards across our maintenance team, over the last two years Alan has made a positive impact at Insite and is an outstanding consumer-facing ambassador for professionalism in heat networks. Alice Stamp - Ove Arup & Partners Alice Stamp is a senior energy consultant at Arup. An expert in whole system modelling, Alice developed Arup’s Energy System Optimisation and Planning (ESOP) tool from concept to widespread adoption in Arup. She is playing leading roles for Arup on local area energy planning across the UK and globally and supporting BEIS on the development of heat network zoning. Amy Baker - EQUANS UK & Ireland A bright and passionate talent, Amy joined the Urban Energy team in 2021 as an Equans graduate. She’s been promoted rapidly and now drives development of East London Energy, playing a fundamental role growing and decarbonising the UK’s largest network. Her exceptional interpersonal skills, vision, humility, and work ethic mean she gets the most from her team delivering excellent outcomes. Lucy Sherburn - Fairheat Lucy is a consulting Engineer at FairHeat, her role has involved working on design and operation of new build heat networks, to deliver cost and energy saving improvements. In just 3 years, Lucy has established her presence and influence in the industry. Lucy's determination and dedication to contribute to a better future for the UK Heat Network industry is exemplary. Tunji Alli - Vattenfall Heat UK Tunji Alli is our Commercial Manager for Scotland and the north of the UK. He is playing a crucial role in Vattenfall’s ambition the become a major player in the UK’s district heating industry. He joined Vattenfall Heat UK as a Commercial Analyst in 2021 and works with colleagues across our various offices. Tunji worked at an energy focused management consultancy firm before joining Vattenfall. Since joining Tunji has been pivotal in the negotiation and closing of Vattenfall’s first large scale project in Scotland in partnership with Midlothian Council and more recently the extension of the new network into new areas, supporting the view of low carbon affordable heating. What will the winners get?You'll win glory on awards night, and take home a shiny trophy… but also the lasting recognition of your peers across the sector. The ADE will feature details of all the winning entries on its website and across its social media, celebrating your success and profiling your work. We may also write your entry up into a case study and use it to showcase the excellent work the sector is doing in the journey to net zero.In the past, winning entries have also hosted MP and other VIP visits for the ADE, potentially allowing you to engage directly with political stakeholders whilst giving them a tour of your own sites.Find out about our 2022 Award winners here.