Next steps for heat networks in the UK: Digitalisation - Royal Danish Embassy - 4th March 2020 - Alex Fox
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Next steps for heat
networks in the UK:
Digitalisation
Royal Danish Embassy – 4th March 2020 – Alex Fox
Overview:
1) SSE Group & Enterprise
2) Smart Cities
Digital
3) PIRI
Energy
4) Project DC
5) HaaS – a ‘social’ opportunity?
Introduction to the SSE Group
Supporting the low-carbon transition
Our vision
SSEN Transmission SSE Renewables To be a leading energy provider in a low carbon world
Our purpose
Energy Provide energy needed today and strive for a better
Thermal world of energy for tomorrow
Customer
SSEN Distribution Solutions (incl Energy
SSE Airtricity) Our strategy
To create value for shareholders and society from
Energy Portfolio Management developing, owning and operating energy and related
Enterprise and Investments infrastructure and services in a sustainable way
Distributed Energy Contracting Rail Telecoms
Digital Services is developing three different platforms,
which will come together under the Smart Cities banner
Platforms Capabilities Partners
• Building on current ESG capabilities (remote monitoring and
Smart Buildings control of buildings
Platform • Expanding to provide more insight and action for customers
based on Machine Learning and AI
• Building on Mayflower CMS (lighting control)
Smart Cities and • Comms network and power already on a street, building on that
Places Platform network to add other sensors, collecting and analysing data
through the Mayflower platform
• Building on Smart Grid Solutions capabilities
• Energy control, management and trading platform to allow us to
EaaS Platform optimise our customer sites and assets. Being built in phases,
increasing automation
Energy as a Service Platform – trading and local grid
stabilisation Energy Trading Markets
The platform can:
Aggregation Platform
Building Energy Site Energy
• Collect data from assets
Optimisation Optimisation
• Remotely control those assets – ie
turn on/off, up/down
• Group assets (to allow us to control
remotely/for trading purposes)
Building • Set asset parameters
• Automated scheduling and
Private network dispatch
• Data visualisation, analytics,
Distribution Network reporting
• Integrated with SSE trading desk
Transmission Network
Growing a sustainable city -
PIRI
Peterborough Integrated Renewables Infrastructure
Integrating:
• Heat
• Power
• Mobility
Creating impact PIRI delivers value to
individuals and businesses alike
Business As Usual Project PIRI
Multi-utility infrastructure delivery means a lower
Energy Costs No cost benefits to pass onto consumers.
capital cost and therefore lower bills for consumers.
.
Locally produced energy from Waste. All
No low carbon certainty with energy/services services/energy received low carbon as standard.
Carbon
purchased. No compromises.
“Top down” tariff setting without visibility of Transparent tariff setting using a “bottom up”
Transparency
costing approach and no committed savings. costing approach to determine long-term % savings.
Separate bills and no connection between “As a Service” integrated billing for heat, electricity
Customer Service and mobility. Once a customer, each can benefit
electricity, heat and EV charging services.
from all services e.g. heat, electricity, EV charging.
Due to capacity constraints, increasing costs to Low carbon technology/infrastructure made
Infrastructure
install low carbon technology e.g. EV available at cost effective connection
charging/heat pumps/solar PV. cost/cost included within tariffs.
Heat networks data collection – ‘Project DC’
• Learning; understanding behaviour; & adapting
Wisdom
• Allowing us to move on to greater capability.
• With 15-minute interval data, we’re able to fully understand the demand
Knowledge profiles from each of our operational networks
• Don’t have to rely on potentially out of date benchmarks and design
standards when designing new systems
Information
• We can also prove, beyond doubt, that networks do not need to be so
oversized to the degree they almost always are in the UK !
Data • The principal benefit being that we can start to deliver systems which are
inherently more efficient and cheaper for the customer.
Digital heat future – Heat as a Service
• As mentioned at the top – we’re looking to make
HaaS a fourth ‘digital’ project in SSE Enterprise; &
apply it to a heat network, however…
• Heat is the biggest component of a consumers energy
bill – think vulnerable & fuel poor
HaaS: • Concerns regarding HaaS and driving the right
Purchasing ‘plans’ behaviour
for warmth by time,
instead of kWhr’s. • We have a lot of power through data, & mustn’t be
naïve about how deep that will go
• New business models in energy are most commonly
only ‘techno-economic’.
What should we be doing with ‘digital’ in heat (& energy)?
• Can’t retrofit the social element to business
models – historically this has been over-
looked
• Might this be around increasing the role and
stake that the consumer has?
• Is there anything in the Ofgem concept to
“stack value”?
• To me, the answer – particularly for heat – is
in the data of networked systems
• This should be seen as an opportunity, not a
threat – competitive advantage atm.In summary
• We’re undoubtedly moving towards ‘as a service’
business models across the entire energy system
• SSE Enterprise is going to trial HaaS on a heat
network
• Can’t retrofit the social element – needs to be built Digital
in at the outset
Energy
• This isn’t a constraint; it’s an advantage
• HaaS is a great opportunity to deliver social value,
but what do you think?
• What should we be doing with ‘digital’ in
heat (& energy)?Thank you – SSE Heat
Networks – our aim is
to be the most
trusted heat supplier
SSE Riverlight | Alex Fox e: alex.fox@sse.com t: 07776 603626You can also read
