Towards a smart energy city?

Presentation to Bristol 2015 Go Green Event

1 July 2015

Simon Roberts OBE

Chief Executive @cse_bristol

Outline

• Our vision for Bristol Smart Energy City

• The Collaboration and its purpose

• What needs to be understood

• The importance of scale and the public interest

• Implications for policy – ‘in spite of’ or ‘because of’?

Our Smart Energy City ‘Vision’

By 2020, having taken an integrated approach to

smart meter roll-out and city-wide data capture and

analytics, Bristol will have a public-interest

organisation orchestrating smart use, distribution

and supply of heat and power across the city.

Opportunities for a ‘smart energy city’

• Curbing energy waste and peak demand

• Enhancing the value of local distributed energy generation

• Smart approaches to tackling fuel poverty

• Stimulating & capturing the economic benefits of being smarter

• Developing fine grain understanding of city energy system

But what to do now (and next) to realise these?

The Collaboration

• Linked to Bristol 2015, funded principally from ‘in kind’

• KPMG, DNV-GL, Arup, Bristol City Council (‘energy’ and ‘futures’)

University of Bristol (computer science, electronic engineering, estates),

Western Power Distribution, Knowle West Media Centre, Secure Group,

Demand Logic, Bristol Is Open

• Workshops on each ‘opportunity’ (including wider stakeholder

involvement), shared analysis, plan-making

• Comprehensive road map – or ‘navigational chart’ – by December 2015

Interlinked strands

• Technical (energy)

• Technical (IT and data)

• Commercial

• Regulatory/policy

• Social/cultural

Outcomes

• A detailed understanding of complex web of technical, commercial,

regulatory, and social aspects involved

• A clear sense of the skills, capabilities and facilities required across the

city

• A plan for how these might be viably established and how they might

best be orchestrated

Sizematters

Public interest matters too

Implications for policy and practice?

• Engagement at city-level in smart meter roll-out plans – with

whom and why?

• More technical experiments or capacity building?

• Regulatory and commercial frameworks for local ‘system services’

and potential to recover value created?

• Opportunities for business energy consumer involvement in

‘experimental’ phases?

• Others?

Thank you

simon.roberts@cse.org.uk

www.cse.org.uk

@cse_bristol