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AN INDEPENDENT <strong>EVALUATION</strong> OF THE LCNF Community Energy Action Project Title Community Energy Action Tier 1 DNO WPD Status Complete LCNF project funding £434,565 Project objectives The scope of this project was to work with 10 communities to gather demand data while implementing incentive tariffs. This would be aided by community demand data being made available. In addition to this a community energy monitor would be developed to allow customers to see at a glance what their demand and the entire community demand is. Community monitor solution would be generic and available for use in future. Assessment Criteria Accelerates the development of a low carbon energy sector Score (1-5) 4 Overview of assessment, sources of evidence and comments Assessment: The project learning facilitates understanding of demand response which could facilitate connection of LCTs by deferring asset reinforcement. Evidence: WPD wanted to investigate whether engagement on a community level would be an alternative to conventional reinforcement and what was the most appropriate way to do this. The benefit of this project was to see if using demand side response can reduce the peak demand thus allowing deferral or removal of conventional reinforcement which could reduce demand driven reinforcement significantly. Additionally, due to communities being selected with preference of low carbon technologies indicative demand data for communities of the future was obtained. While the project determined that the cost of incentives and customer engagement significantly outweigh conventional reinforcement, there have been other learning benefits. References: • Community Energy Action; Closedown report; June 2015. PÖYRY MANAGEMENT CONSULTING October 2016 713_Poyry_Report_Evaluation_of_the_LCNF_FINAL_Oct_2016_v700.docx 288
AN INDEPENDENT <strong>EVALUATION</strong> OF THE LCNF Has the potential to deliver net financial benefits to future and/or existing customers Has a Direct Impact on the operation of a DNO’s Distribution System Generates knowledge that can be shared amongst all DNOs - 2 5 Assessment: Evidence that the project methods can deliver financial benefits to the majority of customers. Evidence: Although the project determined the solution was not cost effective, there were financial benefits to customers in terms of energy saved and reduced bills. References: • Community Energy Action; Closedown report; June 2015. Assessment: The project has learning and outputs are utilised in later LNCF projects. Evidence: As the project set out to explore if community engagement lead demand side response was a valid option for network constraint management and there was not a statistical significant impact and was significantly more expensive than conventional reinforcement, this sort of intervention will not be taken forward to business as usual. However, the project does hold useful learning for future demand side response services purchased from community groups or ESCOs. The project learning is being used in Flexible Plug and Play (Tier 2 project), but the solution is unlikely to be used by other DNOs at present. Project does provide learning for other situations, such as for future demand side response services purchased from community groups or ESCOs. References: • Community Energy Action; Closedown report; June 2015. Assessment: Specific replication report(s) exist / are available on request. A learning dissemination event or webinar was held. Evidence: As well as the closedown report, a CSE report and appendices provide detail on the project. Findings were disseminated at the 2014 and 2015 LCNI conference. References: • Community Energy Action; Closedown report; June 2015. • Community Energy Action (Less Is More) ; Final report of the LCNF Community Energy Action project; Centre for Sustainability; 2014 (and Appendices document). PÖYRY MANAGEMENT CONSULTING October 2016 713_Poyry_Report_Evaluation_of_the_LCNF_FINAL_Oct_2016_v700.docx 289
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