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2020
Powering Parks is a project by Possible, Hackney council and Scene. We have been investigating the potential for installing heat pumps in Hackney’s parks to provide heat to nearby buildings. If successful, it has the potential to tackle climate change, improve air quality and generate income for councils and park authorities to re-invest locally.
The 'Saline Aquaculture Network in Ghana' project will establish a network of regenerative saltmarsh and aquaculture sites along the coast of Ghana, exploring the growth of high-value halophytic crops for local farmers as well as providing a host of ecological benefits such as coastal flood-mitigation, carbon capture, and ecosytem restoration.
Alongside Takazuri, Scene will be exploring a circular economy model that deploys disruptive manufacturing technology and converts waste into innovative long- life products with huge commercial potential for domestic and international markets in Kisii, Kenya. The project will support the existing informal workforce while also creating formal employment opportunities, and promoting product innovation while taking care of the environmental impact.
Scene provided consultancy services for a solar PV generation and battery storage development at The Gallops farmland in Sussex. The project involved end-to-end development services including: an initial feasibility, energy and modelling assessment, in-depth financial assessment, detailed Solar PV system design, planning and construction management.
The 4th annual Community Energy - State of the Sector 2020 research project was launched in January 2020. The 2020 report comes at a time of change in the UK low carbon sector, with the closure of the Feed-in and Export Tariff schemes altering the landscape for small to medium scale energy generation. These changes come alongside a wider sectoral shift towards a more decentralised and digitised approach to low carbon development across the UK.
In partnership with Farm-Hand, Futurepump and the Gulu Agricultural Development Company, Scene is trialling a smart irrigation tool in northern Uganda - REFRUIT (Resource Efficient Farming by Renewable Uganda Technology). Informed by participatory workshops with regional smallholder farmers, REFRUIT will use hyper local day-ahead weather forecasting to deliver the right amount of water at the right time, through a solar-powered water pump.
HEED (Humanitarian Engineering and Energy for Displacement) is a joint project between Coventry University, Practical Action and Scene. Its aims are to increase the access of affordable and sustainable energy for forcibly displaced people in Rwanda and Nepal and to introduce new principles for the design, procurement and provision of energy for forcibly displaced communities worldwide.
Scene has been working with the New Cumnock Community Council (NCCC), over the last three years to identify, understand and negotiate potential wind generation projects in the New Cumnock region. Supported by CARES and with an initial aim to understand shared ownerships opportunities in the nearby Ashmark Hill Wind Farm, Scene is now providing a strategic supporting role to NCCC in relation to a number of local shared ownership and community ownership opportunities.
The island of Iona has an ambitious aim of becoming entirely energy self-sufficient through use of renewable energies and storage. We have worked with Iona Renewables, a representative local group, in developing a roadmap that would allow their aims to be achieved. The roadmap includes various technologies and project types covering local generation, storage, supply and use of electricity and heat.
