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CivTech has provided a springboard for Scene to develop its building energy modelling capability and combine this with Novoville's fully supported customer journey to develop a unique digital platform to increase the pace and scale we decarbonise our homes, which operates for individuals, communities and social landlords.
Hundreds of thousands of floor plans already exist for homes across Scotland, but these are typically only used for selling homes, and having served this purpose are of no more use. This project investigated the feasibility of repurposing these existing floor plans to support green heat plans. It explored and developed the most efficient way of sourcing and extracting 2 dimensional data and converting it into a 3D model of a building, and making this information accessible for those planning, detailing and costing green heat options for buildings.
Galleries to Calories (G2C), comprising industry, academic and national research partners from Scotland, USA and Ireland, demonstrates for the first time the use of legacy mine workings as recycled heat storage and transport networks to provide managed sustainable regional recharge of low enthalpy geothermal heat. Scene is providing environmental and social impact assessment expertise to the G2C project.
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.
Scene is suspporting the Derbyshire, Derby City, and Peak District National Park local authorities with a spatial renewable energy assessment. This research will contribute to these Councils' local development plans and supplementary climate change regulatory guidance, by highlighting, modelling, and appraising key regions in the locality best suited for particular renewable energy generation and low carbon technology development.
CESET explores the potential of community energy to accelerate inclusive and clean energy transitions in Ethiopia, Malawi and Mozambique. The project is an attempt to create new trans sectoral capacity to deliver community-led energy solutions in the Southern and East African regions. As part of this effort, Scene is providing off-grid energy expertise to the CESET project, including research, design and implementation of a solar PV microgrid in Mozambique.
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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.
For the third year running, Scene have been working in partnership Community Energy England to deliver the Community Energy State of the Sector Report 2019. This research provides an overview of the community energy sector in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It is the most comprehensive evaluation of the community energy sector and provides a quantitative basis for the ongoing support of, and advocacy for, community energy in the UK.
Building on the State of the Sector 2018, Scene partnered with Community Energy England and UK Power Networks to investigate community energy at a greater resolution. The research focuses on the regional electricity grid managed by UK Power Networks, including the South East and East of England and London.
The ENBIO project, funded by Zero Waste Scotland, investigates the use of renewable energy for algal bio-production to enable new industry in rural areas and increase the strength of the rural circular economy. Scene Connect has been commissioned by ENBIO lead ALienergy to build an economic assessment tool that looks at powering Xanthella’s algae production system with community renewable energy in the Scottish highlands.
Scene have been working in partnership with Community Energy England to deliver the second edition of the Community Energy State of the Sector Report 2018.
This research provides an overview of the community energy sector in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It is the most comprehensive evaluation of the community energy sector and provides a quantitative basis for the ongoing support of, and advocacy for, community energy in the UK.
