Gateshead Borough Council is a leading authority on the deployment of heat networks, since constructing the Gateshead Energy Centre in March 2017. As a significant owner of social housing, the Council wanted to pilot new approaches for decarbonising heat in high rise blocks, based around installation of Combined Heat and Power (CHP) systems.
Read more
Nottingham City Council has high ambitions for the pace at which it can help to decarbonise Nottingham, and through its housing arm, Nottingham City Homes, has been testing a variety of innovative solutions for decarbonising its sizeable housing stock.
Read more
Brighton & Hove City Council is strongly committed to deploying solar PV across their housing estate, as a way to reduce carbon emissions and support tenants through lower energy bills. But while many of the Council’s tenants who live in houses and bungalows have benefited from solar installations, tenants living in flats – who make up the majority of the council’s tenants – have been missing out.
Read more
As part of a large Innovate UK project convened by Emergent, which also included Barking and Dagenham Council and housing provider Places for People, we worked with Southend to understand the role that microgrids could play in delivering their strategic decarbonisation goals, including on a flagship new build development.
Stonewater Housing is a large independent social housing provider who wanted to understand the potential for microgrids to reduce the costs of installing heat pumps on their new build estates. We assessed the potential for a microgrid incorporating solar PV and battery storage, in addition to heat pumps, across their planned Flanshaw development of c250 homes.
We worked with Brighton Council, an existing client of Emergent’s, to explore the potential to combine a decentralised heat pump solution with on-site solar supply, via a microgrid, on their planned new build development, Victoria Road.
Places for People, one of the UK’s largest independent social housing providers, was planning to install measures that would significantly improve energy performance across their Padiham estate. The organisation was interested in the potential for a microgrid to deliver a return on the scheme’s capital costs, and commissioned an assessment from Emergent.