Public Funding for Places For People Group Limited

Awaiting Public Project Summary

The energy market is failing to capture the industrial benefits from the green technology revolution and tackle the climate crisis. We urgently need a REMeDY -- a Revolution in Energy Market Design to match the revolution in green technologies. Our solution is HIVES - a revolutionary new energy company business model to deliver Horizontally Integrated (working across electricity, heat and mobility vectors) Vertical (including generation, distribution, flexibility and supply) Energy Systems. By integrating system operation and supply at a local level, in a way that puts customers first, works for financiers and is regulatory compliant today, HIVES provides a blueprint for a new national electricity system design, beyond the faltering 'supplier hub' model, to a distributed and highly efficient zero-carbon architecture. Project REMeDy will develop the HIVES approach to produce a local energy system design covering the whole of the populous town of Southend that is proven to be replicable in localities across the UK. A major investment prospectus will set out capital funding arrangements for the design, with work on the first major infrastructure projects planned for 2022. This world-leading project will catapult UK industry to the forefront of the global transition to local energy systems.

Over £2 billion of personal protective equipment (PPE) like safety helmets and high-visibility clothing is sold every year in the UK, most of which ends up in landfill or incinerated. This project will explore whether there is a way to change a business model that is followed across the world so that PPE becomes circular. Fundamental in this will be a shift in the perception of PPE from a disposable commodity to one that retains value throughout the cycle. To achieve this requires cooperation across the supply chain. This project, a collaboration between a companies that understand PPE from all ends of the supply chain, is a prototype of this model and will help demonstrate how the circular economy is good for business, the economy and the environment.