Rural Energy Hubs Project

农村能源中心项目建立在几十年的经验基础上，在奥克尼和设得兰群岛共同努力和提供创新的低碳项目。它采用基于地方的示范方法来克服非技术障碍，加速脱碳。通过在农村能源中心建立由地方主导的协调行动，为个人、企业和地方当局提供创新和实用的焦点，推动脱碳，最大限度地提高社会、经济和环境效益，将整个能源系统整合在一起，展示如何开发、嵌入和加速脱碳。该项目汇集了净零生活奥克尼和设得兰农村能源中心项目的工作和合作伙伴，这是“净零生活：探路者地点”计划的第一阶段。这两项研究都建立在IUK PFER示范项目ReFLEX Orkney的学习和挑战基础上。ReFLEX Orkney是一个雄心勃勃的面向消费者的社区主导的创新综合服务项目，遇到了重大的非技术障碍。该第二阶段项目寻求创新解决方案，以解决关键的非技术障碍：资金、监管、电网容量、资源、行为改变和数据缺乏。*运输——为地方当局车队提供创新的电力解决方案，包括大型机动车辆，整合需求主导的社区管理服务，移动即服务（MaaS）平台和分布式充电基础设施，为农村地区提供财务可持续的汽车俱乐部模式，为客船和重型无人机进行海上（电力）和航空（氢）脱碳试验。再加上对跨社区交通脱碳的整体、全系统规划。*供暖——为农村社区提供区域供热解决方案，在家庭和社区场所进行更智能的监控，以推动行为改变，制定“建筑翻新护照”计划，以支持用户在家庭和办公室的各个方面脱碳。*电力——开发经济实惠的模式，为个人、社区和企业提供可再生能源发电和电池解决方案；包括将能源生产和储存纳入农村能源中心。这些基于模式的创新活动将联系在一起，以便在设得兰群岛的布雷建立第一个试点农村能源中心；展示我们完全整合的、本地化的、基于地点的解决方案。学习将被整合到英国范围内的复制计划中，该计划结合了一系列基于地点的商业模式，以确保最大程度的吸收。合作伙伴是Aquatera (AQT)（牵头）、奥克尼群岛委员会（OIC）、设得兰群岛委员会（SIC）、欧洲海洋能源中心（EMEC）和苏格兰社区能源（CES）。这个精心挑选的团队汇集了解决脱碳非技术障碍和成功交付这类雄心勃勃的项目的重要现实经验。

The Rural Energy Hubs project builds upon decades of experience, joint working and delivering innovative low-carbon projects in Orkney and Shetland. It embraces a place-based demonstration approach to overcoming non-technical barriers to accelerate decarbonisation. Seven work packages integrated across the energy system to demonstrate how decarbonisation can be developed, embedded and accelerated by establishing locally-led coordinated action in Rural Energy Hubs, providing innovative and practical focal-points to drive decarbonisation for individuals, businesses and local authorities, maximising social, economic and environmental benefits.This project brings together work and partners from the Net Zero Living Orkney and Shetland Rural Energy Hubs projects in Phase 1 of the Net Zero Living: Pathfinder Places programme. Both studies built on learning and challenges from the IUK PFER demonstration project ReFLEX Orkney, an ambitious programme of innovative integrated consumer-facing community-led services that encountered significant non-technical barriers.This Phase 2 project seeks innovative solutions to key non-technical barriers: finance, regulation, grid capacity, resource, behavioural change and lack of data.High-impact outputs have been developed to encompass all modalities of the energy system:* Transport -- innovative electric solutions for local authority fleets including large mobility vehicles, integrating demand-led community-managed services, a Mobility as a Service (MaaS) platform and distributed charging infrastructure, financially sustainable car club models for rural areas, maritime (electric) and aviation (hydrogen) decarbonisation trials for passenger vessel and heavy-lift drones, plus holistic, system-wide planning for decarbonisation of transport across communities.* Heat -- district heating solutions for rural communities, smarter monitoring in domestic and community premises to drive behaviour change, development of the Building Renovation Passport programme to support users through all aspects of decarbonising homes and offices.* Power -- developing affordable models of supporting individuals, communities and businesses with renewable generation and battery solutions; including incorporating energy generation and storage into Rural Energy Hubs.These mode-based innovation activities will be linked together to allow the setup of the first pilot Rural Energy Hub, in Brae, Shetland; showcasing delivery of our fully integrated, local, placed-based solutions.Learning will be combined into a UK-wide replication plan, which incorporates a range of place-based business models to ensure maximum uptake.The partners are Aquatera (AQT) (lead), Orkney Islands Council (OIC), Shetland Islands Council (SIC), the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), and Community Energy Scotland (CES). This hand-picked team brings together significant real-world experience of addressing non-technical barriers to decarbonisation and successfully delivering ambitious projects of this nature.