{"id":94255,"date":"2018-07-24T11:30:02","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T11:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=b3d83159304d55ee08cedfe4ac4a9831"},"modified":"2018-07-24T11:30:02","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T11:30:02","slug":"news-story-developing-a-council-smart-energy-system-apply-for-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=94255","title":{"rendered":"News story: Developing a council smart energy system: apply for funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pkc.gov.uk\/\">Perth and Kinross Council<\/a> is to invest up to \u00a3150,000 in a series of studies to develop a smart energy network for its estate.<\/p>\n<p>The system should manage and control:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the generation of renewable energy<\/li>\n<li>the storage and use of renewable energy<\/li>\n<li>trade of any excess energy, both within and outside of the council<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It could involve generating energy at a school, and then using and storing that energy at another building, such as a care home.<\/p>\n<p>The best ideas could receive further funding to develop and test them in a second phase.<\/p>\n<p>Funding is under SBRI (the Small Business Research Initiative) and supported by the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scottish-enterprise.com\/knowledge-hub\/articles\/insight\/can-do-innovation-challenge-fund\">CAN DO Innovation Challenge Fund<\/a> for business innovation across Scotland.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/sbri-the-small-business-research-initiative\">Find out more about SBRI and how it works.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"solutions-should-reduce-costs-and-emissions\">Solutions should reduce costs and emissions<\/h2>\n<p>The council is looking for ideas that would reduce energy costs and CO2 emissions. They should also explore how new income could be generated through energy storage assets.<\/p>\n<p>Proposed solutions must:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>develop local renewable capacity and storage<\/li>\n<li>develop an energy management platform<\/li>\n<li>offer communication with and control of all the network\u2019s generation and storage<\/li>\n<li>be able to trade across the network<\/li>\n<li>investigate and develop potential income from sales of stored electricity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"competition-information\">Competition information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>the competition opens on 20 August 2018, and the deadline for registration is at midday on 10 October 2018<\/li>\n<li>any organisation that can demonstrate a route to market for its idea can apply<\/li>\n<li>we expect phase 1 contracts to be worth up to \u00a330,000 and to last up to 6 months<\/li>\n<li>we expect phase 2 contracts to be worth up to \u00a3175,000 and to last up to 18 months<\/li>\n<li>successful projects will attract 100% funded development contracts<\/li>\n<li>there will be a briefing event on 28 August 2018, where you can find out more about the competition and how to submit a quality application<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk\/competition\/210\/overview\">Find out more about this competition and apply.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organisations can apply for a share of \u00a3150,000 for ideas to develop a smart energy system that links Perth and Kinross Council buildings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}