Realising Net-zero Liverpool

在向净零碳能源过渡的过程中，利物浦面临着复杂的、相互关联的非技术障碍。在利物浦市议会（LCC）的领导下，第二阶段将展示一种创新的系统方法来拆除这些障碍，创造和展示可以在整个城市和英国复制的解决方案。该项目涵盖多个能源**载体**、**壁垒**和**能源终端使用部门**。这种巨大的广度是通过特定的“范例项目”来平衡和引导的——一套在第一阶段确定的特定地点的干预措施——其中说明了障碍，并展示了解决方案。通过三个能源载体（电力、热能、运输）解决了五组障碍：1)能源终端用户支持薄弱；2)经济模型和投资案例不足；3)私人/公共部门在全市范围内提供服务的能力和技能不足；4)需要改变的规划框架；5)扩展/复制挑战，从供应链不足到缺乏全市范围的协调。例如，无论是家用热力和电力，还是系泊船舶或公共交通电气化，能源网络的设计和运营仍然是一个主要障碍：1)最终用户需要了解扰乱其日常优先事项所带来的好处；2)经济理由必须明确；3)交付能力需要足够；4)规划必须考虑干预措施；最后，他们的设计必须是可复制的，可以在其他地方使用。范围包括两个最终用途界别：1)新住宅及工业发展用地；2)国内脱碳和改造。范例包括岸电（取代系泊船舶使用的重燃料油）、城市公园的地源热（为当地热网提供热量）、庇护住房改造、城市中心上市建筑、休闲中心能源中心和一项重大的新住房开发。研究结果将用于创新的净零工具，用于在同类基础上比较个人干预措施，以及在城市/区域一级进行宏观规划。拟议的ClimateOS软件将覆盖全球，并将使利物浦能够与英国、欧洲和美国的其他城市进行比较。该联盟由承诺的私人、公共和学术合作伙伴组成，他们将在随后的第三阶段交付范例。LCC是主要的召集人，拥有广泛的范围；继续置业拥有超过6000套住宅；SPEN拥有并运营本地电网；Regent Capital是一家本地活跃的资产管理公司；新资源合作伙伴和分散能源解决方案带来了新的净零软件，完成了自2020年以来的积极合作伙伴关系。

Liverpool faces complex, interconnected non-technical barriers to delivery of its transition to net-zero carbon energy. Led by Liverpool City Council (LCC), Phase Two will demonstrate an innovative systemic approach to dismantling these barriers, creating and demonstrating solutions that can be replicated across the city and the UK.The project covers multiple energy **vectors**, **barriers**, and energy **end-use sectors**. This great breadth is counter-balanced and channelled through specific **Exemplar Projects** -- a set of location-specific interventions identified in Phase One -- in which barriers are illustrated, and solutions demonstrated.Five sets of barriers are addressed across three energy vectors (power, heat, transport): 1) weak energy-end-user support; 2) inadequate economic models and investment case; 3) inadequate private/public capacity and skills to deliver city-wide; 4) a planning framework in need of change; and 5) scaling/ replication challenges ranging from inadequate supply chains to absent city-wide alignment.For example, whether for domestic heat and power or for electrifying moored shipping or public transport, the design and operation of energy networks remains a major barrier: 1) end-users need to understand the benefits resulting from disrupting their everyday priorities; 2) the economic case must be clear; 3) delivery capacity needs to be sufficient; 4) planning must allow for interventions; and lastly 5) their design must be replicable for use elsewhere.Two end-use sectors are in scope: 1) new residential and industrial development sites; and 2) domestic decarbonisation and retrofit. Exemplars include shore power (to replace heavy fuel oil use in moored shipping), ground-source heat from city parks to feed local heat networks, sheltered housing retrofit, city-centre listed buildings, leisure centre energy hubs, and a major new housing development.Findings will feed into innovative net-zero tools, for comparison of individual interventions on a like-for-like basis, as well as at city-wide / regional level to enable planning at the macro scale. The ClimateOS software proposed has a world-wide reach and will enable Liverpool to compare approaches with other cities in the UK, Europe and the US.The consortium comprises committed private, public and academic partners with the heft to deliver the Exemplars in a subsequent Phase Three. LCC is the key convenor and has a wide estate; Onward Homes owns over 6000 homes; SPEN owns and operates the local grid; Regent Capital is a locally active Asset Manager; and New Resource Partners and Decentralised Energy Solutions bring new net-zero software, completing an active partnership in place since 2020\.