Climate Positive. Developing a Social Housing Showcase

该项目的目标是开展一项为社会住房部门开发气候积极型住房的可行性研究，以期在第二阶段测试这一概念。气候积极型住房产生净节省的碳排放，从而为实现“净零”碳排放做出积极贡献。随着我们走出“新冠肺炎”，社会住房提供商在满足预算方面面临挑战，不断上升的失业风险，燃料贫困和租金支付坏账增加的风险。这将挑战他们履行提高社会住房能源效率、实现净零碳和解决燃料贫困的责任的能力。因此，他们对能够在资金限制下运营的替代交付模式感兴趣。Power Circle Projects(PCP)开发了一种创新的商业模式来支持这一点。PCP与社会房东合作，开发当地能源系统，生产、储存和交易能源，以实现负担得起的气候积极解决方案。社会房东交付这些项目面临许多障碍，例如资本预算较低、对第三方资助的解决方案缺乏信任、风险偏好较低以及缺乏经验或时间。PCP的商业模式通过作为一家社会所有的免牌能源服务公司运营，提供一系列服务来提供和运营当地能源系统，从而解决了这些障碍。这些服务包括开发、拥有(在适用的情况下)和管理当地系统，运营一个社会拥有的虚拟发电厂，出售产生的电力和提供电网服务。项目结构可以灵活地满足个人客户和他们的风险偏好。可行性将测试GHA在埃尔金比尔博霍尔的新建筑开发，以及可能达到类似结果的屋顶更换计划的翻新方案。GHA已经聘请PCP进行早期的概念工作。该项目着眼于安装整个屋顶建筑集成的太阳能光伏，以创建一个通过专用电线连接到中央电池的本地发电厂，从而创建一个本地能源网络。能源将以负担得起的价格回售给租户，多余的部分将输出到电网。第一阶段可行性研究将在早期概念工作的基础上，为新的建设和改造方案开发技术和商业验证的解决方案，以便在第二阶段对原型系统进行现场测试。商业模式和技术创新将使PCP能够支持社会住房部门更广泛地交付“气候积极”的住房。

The objective of this project is to undertake a feasibility study for developing Climate Positive houses for the social housing sector, with a view to testing the concept in Phase 2. Climate Positive homes generate a net saving in carbon emissions, thus making a positive contribution to achieving 'net zero' carbon.As we emerge from Covid-19 social housing providers are challenged in meeting their budgets and rising unemployment risks an increase in fuel poverty and bad debt on rent payments. This will challenge their ability to deliver their responsibilities to improve the energy efficiency of social housing, deliver net carbon zero and address fuel poverty. They are therefore interested in alternative delivery models that can operate within their financial constraints.Power Circle Projects (PCP) has developed an innovative business model to support this. PCP works with social landlords to develop local energy systems which generate, store and trade energy to achieve affordable climate positive solutions. There are many barriers to social landlords delivering these projects such as small capital budgets, lack of trust in third party funded solutions, low 'risk appetite' and lack of experience or time.PCP's business model addresses these barriers by operating as a socially-owned licence-exempt energy services company offering a range of services that will deliver and operate local energy systems. These services include developing, owning (where applicable) and managing local systems, operating a socially-owned Virtual Power Plant, selling the resulting electricity and providing grid services. Project structures can be flexible to suit individual customers and their risk appetite.The feasibility will be tested for GHA's new build development at Bilbohall in Elgin, as well as a retrofit scenario for roof replacement programmes which could achieve a similar outcome. GHA has already engaged PCP to undertake early concept work. This looks at installing whole roof building integrated solar PV to create a local power plant linked to a centralised battery by private wire to create a local energy network. The energy will be sold back to tenants at affordable rates with excess being exported to grid.Building on early concept work the Phase 1 feasibility study will develop a technically and commercially verified solution for a new build and retrofit scenario to enable field testing of a prototype system in phase 2. The business model and technical innovations will enable PCP to support the wider delivery of 'climate positive' homes in the social housing sector.