EVALUATION

AN INDEPENDENT EVALUATION OF THE LCNF
Success of the Low Carbon Network Fund (LCNF)
1 Objectives of the LCNF can be summarised as:
• Incentivising the DNOs to include innovation as part of their core business
• Helping the DNOs to move towards a low carbon business whilst maintaining
security of supply and delivering value for money to customers.
• Helping the DNOs facilitate low carbon and energy saving initiatives
• Dissemination of learning to facilitate roll out of successful trials and
subsequent network savings and or carbon benefits
• Collaboration between the DNOs, and with third party project partners
1.1 Do you believe that the LCNF has met its objective in incentivising the DNOs to
include innovation as part of their core business? What justification do you have for
your response?
1.2 Do you believe that the LCNF has met its objective of helping the DNOs move
towards a low carbon business whilst maintaining security of supply and delivering
value for money to customers? What justification do you have for your response?
1.3 Do you believe that the LCNF has met its objective of helping the DNOs facilitate
low carbon and energy saving initiatives? What justification do you have for your
response?
1.4 Do you believe that the LCNF has met its objective of the dissemination of learning
to facilitate roll-out of successful trials? Are you able to provide examples to
support your view?
Are you aware of learning being implemented from trials by other DNOs as well as
their own? Are you able to provide examples to support your views?
1.5 Do you believe that the LCNF has met its objective of effective collaboration
between the DNOs and project partners? Where appropriate please provide
evidence of the success, or otherwise, of collaboration.
1.6 Are you aware of any barriers that may have affected the outcome of the projects?
1.7 Are you aware of any barriers that may have discouraged project partner
involvement?
1.8 In your view, which parts of the LCNF have worked well and which haven’t? What
would you change in retrospect and why?
Innovation in GB
2.1 To what extent do you believe that the innovation projects would have occurred
without the LCNF? Are you able to provide examples to support your views?
2.2 Do you believe the LCNF has prevented, or otherwise discouraged, private sector
innovation? Are you able to provide examples to support your view?
2.3 Do you think third party access to LCNF funding would improve the quality of
innovation projects and if so why?
PÖYRY MANAGEMENT CONSULTING
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