15% CO2 savings were achieved across 24 participating flats (10-15% predicted). Annual building-wide estimated savings = £7.5k (UK Green Book). If scaled to the 8k social housing flats in UK Power Network's area, CO2 savings = 10,000 tonnes annually, appraised carbon value £2.68m (5/11) - ThreadSky

sophieyulebennett.bsky.social • 126 days ago

15% CO2 savings were achieved across 24 participating flats (10-15% predicted). Annual building-wide estimated savings = £7.5k (UK Green Book). If scaled to the 8k social housing flats in UK Power Network's area, CO2 savings = 10,000 tonnes annually, appraised carbon value £2.68m (5/11)

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sophieyulebennett.bsky.social•126 days ago

Tenants provided generally positive feedback, most felt no impact on their heating or hot water outputs. Tenants and RBKC also noted further benefits such as social cohesion through working as a community. Many were interested in customising the service to specific household needs (6/11)

sophieyulebennett.bsky.social•126 days ago

There were no major conflicts with local demand flexibility calls. A comparison of the CarbonFlex service signals with DNO system data showed that trial turn-down times were aligned with peak times. This could be valuable to a system operator in a grid-constrained area (7/11)

sophieyulebennett.bsky.social•126 days ago

The pilot did, however, confirm that there remain structural barriers to flexibility markets for low income and vulnerable households and local authority landlords. Retail market value flows are a particular challenge, especially for tenants paying for heat with rent (8/11)

sophieyulebennett.bsky.social•126 days ago

Key Qs for a future Alpha stage:
⚡️What signals - alongside price - can align optimisation for environmental/social outcomes with energy market value?
⚡️How do we integrate the building owner needs with grid decarbonisation needs?
⚡️What new services/techs can best deliver these? (9/11)

sophieyulebennett.bsky.social•126 days ago

The pilot was funded by the @Ofgem @innovateuk Strategic Innovation Fund R3, building on 24/7 CFE London analysis for the Greater London Authority. Partners were @UKPowerNetworks, @rbkc, PeerCo, Connected Response and @energyunlocked.
Full report https://bit.ly/SIFCF (10/11)

sophieyulebennett.bsky.social•126 days ago

We now engaging with energy retailers, local authorities and potential funders to co-design socially inclusive CarbonFlex value propositions and pilot the service design on a much larger scale. Contact us to find out more. https://bit.ly/EnUContact (1/11)

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