Challenge 1: Develop a data platform for power and heat usage with sufficient granularity to identify community trends and individual usage patterns in both domestic and commercial buildings. Title: Real time Energy Heat and Power platform (REHP) The Ricardo-AEA real time energy heat and power platform will provide communities and authorities with the tool necessary to make informed decisions on energy and cost saving investments. By bringing together the community, including residents, associations, community groups, developers, utilities, landlords, commercial and industrial businesses, and the city and local authorities, the Ricardo-AEA platform will be at the forefront of local heat and power use issues. It will provide independent evidence for an informed dialogue on energy and cost saving opportunities. Based upon Ricardo-AEA’s existing and proven technology, the new REHP platform will incentivise data sharing, target efficiency measures, and prioritise implementation of infrastructure and cost saving investments. Additionally, based on our extensive experience with air quality, transport and CHP data, our system will enable integration with other data sources in order to allow comprehensive assessment of opportunities. We will investigate the feasibility of integrating the energy platform to existing data sets and our knowledge in air quality and transport will identify other trends and patterns at a local level that could result in additional benefits to local communities, authorities and key stakeholders. Our feasibility study, working in partnership with the identified city authority, will: • Prove the ability of the Ricardo-AEA platform to incorporate real time heat and power use data. • Confirm the feasibility of integrating existing data sets (e.g. Air Quality, Transport, CHP). • Establish the mechanisms for all stakeholder inputs and involvement. • Identify energy use models that the platform is able to use to fill gaps in data. • Visualise the system outputs. • Prove the methodology for effective engagement with communities and stakeholders. By working in partnership with the local and city authorities, and with all stakeholders, the Ricardo-AEA platform will help authorities to achieve, and to exceed, their energy efficiency obligations, as well as identify other trends and benefits from integration of energy and other non-energy data sets.

Challenge 1: Develop a data platform for power and heat usage with sufficient granularity to identify community trends and individual usage patterns in both domestic and commercial buildings. Title: Energy Data Integration System (EDIS) The Ricardo-AEA Energy Data Integration System (EDIS) project will develop and evaluate a prototype platform that will model energy demand and savings opportunities. The project will then demonstrate the platform’s breadth of potential application and the commercial approach through a set of example studies aligned to our partner city’s specific interests. Working with Coventry City Council, and with support from key industry partners, our project will also demonstrate the data brokerage solution necessary to overcome confidentiality barriers associated with sharing of actual energy data. The resulting platform, and its replicable application to other cities throughout the UK, will support informed decisions by city authorities and utility companies, as well as the wider community, based on a shared and evidenced understanding of heat and power use at a granular level. Built in a cloud-based delivery model, the platform’s governing software, modelling and associated data will be centrally and securely hosted, with its ‘user-clients’ (eg the cities, energy providers, stakeholders) accessing the platform via dedicated portals (eg web browsers), to provide them with a highly tailored / personalised user-experience and interface. The system’s architecture will be scalable from the outset, to not only allow for the breadth and volumes of heat and energy data, but also to allow for future expansion / extension into other data areas (eg transport, air quality), and to add further value by allowing combined data patterns to emerge. A highly intuitive user-interface will enable rapid modelling and sophisticated interrogation of the data, including fully integrated GIS visualisation. Granularity will be provided down to building level, while aggregation of that data will enable analysis of city zones to be reviewed and assessed. Within this two year project, an advisory group comprising city representatives, power companies and community groups will work in partnership with us to review and guide the work, ensuring it develops to take account of the functionality needed now and into the future. We will demonstrate EDIS’s breadth of application via case studies aligned to our partner city’s specific interests and needs, and thoroughly examine and define EDIS’s commercialisation potential

CLEVER aims to overcome barriers by developing new harmonised GHG emission factors for transport sector (freight & passenger), encompassing uncovered categories, new and conventional fuels and production paths while taking up the full energy lifecycle (Well To-Wheel/Wake), and providing clearer guides for calculating and accounting emission factors, covering GHG emissions (CO2eq) of the entire transport chain in all modes. CLEVER Framework ensures consistent calculation of new energy carriers, remaining effective as the industry evolves, and emission calculation method for accurate, quantified and accounted emissions, ensuring policy and business relevance. CLEVER applies multi-actor approach, engaging global stakeholders through a co-design, co-creation and co-assessment process. CLEVER reviews existing emission factors derived from global sources, aligned with scientific advances and gaps identification. The Framework is a concise guide, created upon recommended input parameters, fuel/energy specifications and assumptions. It ensures a) understanding and proper application of consequential and attributional methods, b) clear boundaries calculation to avoid biases, aligning data labels and values for consistent emission factors; and c) document how fuel-based emission factors feed into default emission intensities, considering operational parameters and integration in databases. The Framework contains a) new harmonised GHG emission factors; b) common rules for calculating climate impact and c) decision tree based on these rules. This guide helps stakeholders making informed GHG emissions calculations and mitigates conflicting approaches. The Framework undergoes validation in different industrial uses through personalised coaching. For enhancing market uptake regulatory engagement, certification, standardization (ISO14083 review) and training are planned. Greater consistency and reliability of GHG calculation leads to transport decarbonization supporting EU goals.

TranSensus LCA aims to develop a baseline for a European-wide harmonised, commonly accepted and applied single life cycle assessment (LCA) approach for a zero-emission road transport system. Such a European single LCA approach is seen as a key element in achieving the Green Deal targets, making Europe the first digitally enabled circular, climate-neutral and sustainable economy. Bringing together relevant stakeholders from industry and research, an evidence- and real-life data-based LCA approach will be conceptualised and harmonised embracing environmental, economic and social aspects. By consensus, TranSensus LCA will enable industry, mobility providers and planners to provide sustainable products and to optimise mobility solutions as needed to combat climate change.

The EEMS Accelerate Project aims to help realise the potential of electric performance vehicles. With support from the Technology Strategy Board, the project brings together cutting edge, British designed and engineered, electric vehicles and puts them at the hands of driving enthusiasts for 12 months. These driving enthusiasts will use the vehicles during normal driving conditions; for both commuting and leisure purposes, enabling testing, demonstrating and further performance enhancement. Specialist GPS tracking devices fitted to the vehicles transmit driving and charge data to help understand how drivers’ behaviour changes as they become used to the EV controls and battery management system. This captures data which includes trip frequency, range, distance travelled between charges and charging frequency. Furthermore, this project is about changing perceptions and attitudes towards electric vehicles, providing not only a platform to prove their performance, but to showcase sustainable technologies, high end British engineering, and motivate others to get involved.