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Nottingham’s community energy revolution #EnergyRev18 On the 18th October 2018, Project SCENe hosted in Nottingham the first Symposium on the theme of energy communities. The symposium was chaired by Polly Billington of UK100 and had key note talks from the Head of Local Energy at BEIS and the CEO of… Continue reading

Trent Basin-Community Information Model (TB-CIM) is an interactive online platform that displays historical and real-time energy data of the Trent Basin Community. The primarily aim of this visualisation tool is to engage the community residents, informing them of the communal energy generation, storage and consumption. It also aimed to promote… Continue reading

This year Project SCENe and EV-elocity had the opportunity to share a stand at Futurebuild, which is an event exhibiting the latest innovations, products and materials in the building sector. The visitors of our stand had the opportunity to learn more about generation of renewable energy using photovoltaic panels, storing… Continue reading

Prof Mark Gillott, Chair in Sustainable Building Design at The University of Nottingham, talks about the research in Project SCENe. Mr Nick Ebbs, Chief Executive of Blueprint, presents the Trent Basin development. Dr Lucelia Rodrigues, Associate Professor in Architecture and Sustainable & Resilient Cities Research Leader at the University of… Continue reading

Conferences are a way to bring together invaluable ideas, research, innovation and stakeholders. Done well, it creates a positive forum to dissemenate and stimulate. The Sustainable Energy Technology Conference is a prime example of this and its 18th annual iteration started today in Wuhan, China, organised by key staff at the… Continue reading

The UK government, through the department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, released two key reports this July.   The first was the call for evidence on the future for small-scale low-carbon generation. In this they highlight the value of co-locating generation and demand, the role of storage, and the prospect of… Continue reading

Community energy, communities themselves and decentralised energy are essential parts of a sustainable, smart and affordable energy future. They are also the most underrepresented and underdeveloped part. This is also the case for energy storage. Strategies like Project SCENe and organisations like Regen aim to remedy this. This week they… Continue reading

On Friday (1st June 2018) the Project SCENe partners hosted his Right Honorable Lord Henley at the Trent Basin to officially turn on the landmark community energy battery. Our thanks again to Lord Henley for this. Lord Henley is the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Business, Energy and… Continue reading

Many thanks to WPD for their work with interconnecting our 2.1 MWh battery and 440 kW PV array at Trent Basin to the local and national grid, which they discuss well in a feature length piece this month. This interconnection is key for the significant grid services and low carbon… Continue reading

  With the rising costs of household energy and wide-reaching benefits of using energy less, or when renewable energy production is highest and when daily tariffs are lowest, this short blog discusses some game-changing ways smart tech can help with this and improve our experience of household energy use and… Continue reading