Scene was appointed to conduct a low carbon options appraisal for the Iqra Learning Centre (ILC), a religious community centre based at West Hurlet House in the South of Glasgow. Scene conducted energy, technical, financial, and environmental modelling work, providing practical next steps and recommendations for the ILC to reduce its carbon footprint and energy bills through the conversion of the existing off-grid gas systems to low carbon heating systems, alongside supporting low carbon technologies including additional Solar PV, battery storage, and roof insulation.
Scene Connect Ltd. ("Scene") was appointed by the Othona community ("Othona"), to prepare and submit a planning application for a proposed wind turbine at its site near Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex. The work was organised into four broad work stages, to take place between January and July 2022.
Scene supported the ONE Carluke Community Energy Club (OCCEC) to appraise, design and install a community-owned renewable energy system to supply electricity to local consumers. The project investigated the potential for locally owned energy generation and distribution, including both physical and virtual local supply options.
Scene is working with Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough in Wales to support the council's commitment to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas by 2030. As part of the ZUoS platform development, Scene is taking a systems based approach, to develop a net zero multi-vector heat, storage and electricity micro-grid solution.
The Arisaig Community Trust (ACT) is a charity established for the development of the community of Arisaig, a village on the West Coast of Scotland. ACT sought to explore low-carbon options to reduce their carbon footprint and generate additional income for community benefit.
Scene supported Energise Moray - a community partnership in Moray, Scotland - to investigate an emerging opportunity for the shared ownership of wind turbines at the nearby Clash Gour Wind Farm. Scene advised on the set up of a community investment body; evaluated the Clash Gour shared ownership opportunity; and developed a long-term roadmap for a Moray-wide renewable energy hub to support their net zero transition.
During the first quarter of 2021, Scene conducted its first ever carbon emissions audit.The assessment integrated data from the company's office energy use, emissions associated with project travel and staff commuting, equipment purchases, and working-from-home during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results of the audit informed the creation of Scene's Net-Zero emissions ambitions, and lead to development of a new Carbon Consultancy workstream.
In partnership with Heriot-Watt University, Findhorn Innovation Research & Education, Environmental Design Solutions and Auroville Consulting, Scene is developing a novel control system capable of accessing flexibility from existing residential air conditioning (AC) systems in India.
The Perth Smart Energy Network (Perth SEN) will extend Scene's existing ZUoS energy services platfom and implment it across two buildings in the local area. The platform will allow the Council to monitor and trade energy between unconnected buildings, assets, and energy technologies, incoprorating asset control and demand-side response in order to improve renewable energy uptake, reduce energy costs and generate additional revenue.
Building on the results of the EMBLEM energy trading trials on the Isle of Iona, EMBLEM 2 will now test the feasibility of a local peer-to-peer energy trading market to tackle the energy trilema in Rwanda and Nepal.
Scene in collaboration with Locogen, Enbala and Mentone Energy are developing Cloud ZUoS - a market coupled virtual power plant that facilitates local energy trading alongside IoT appliance and DER asset control services for consumers, generators, storage providers and network operators.
