Climate Positive. Developing a Social Housing Showcase

该项目的目标是进行一项可行性研究，为社会住房部门开发积极气候住房，以期在第二阶段测试这一概念。气候积极型住宅产生了碳排放的净节省，从而为实现“净零”碳做出了积极贡献。随着我们摆脱Covid-19，社会住房提供者在满足预算方面面临挑战，失业率上升可能导致燃料贫困和租金坏账增加。这将挑战他们履行责任的能力，以提高社会住房的能源效率，实现净零碳排放和解决燃料贫困问题。因此，他们对能够在其财务限制范围内运作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本地能源系统，产生、储存和交易能源，以实现负担得起的积极气候解决方案。社会房东提供这些项目存在许多障碍，例如资本预算小，对第三方资助解决方案缺乏信任，“风险偏好”低以及缺乏经验或时间。PCP的商业模式解决了这些障碍，作为一家社会所有的免许可证能源服务公司，提供一系列将交付和运营当地能源系统的服务。这些服务包括开发、拥有（如适用）和管理本地系统，运营社会所有的虚拟发电厂，销售由此产生的电力并提供电网服务。项目结构可以灵活地适应个别客户及其风险偏好。GHA将在Elgin的Bilbohall进行新建筑开发，以及屋顶更换项目的改造方案的可行性测试，这些方案可能会达到类似的结果。GHA已委托PCP进行早期概念工作。该项目着眼于安装整个屋顶建筑的集成太阳能光伏，通过私人电线连接到中央电池，创建一个本地能源网络。这些能源将以可承受的价格卖给租户，多余的部分将出口到电网。在早期概念工作的基础上，第一阶段的可行性研究将为新的构建和改造方案开发一个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提供“气候积极”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.