Hangar19 will deliver a real-world trial of a novel domestic AC Vehicle-to-Grid(V2G) charger developed by Hangar19.The solution is designed to enable local authorities to support fleet decarbonisation by using residential charging to store and return energy to the grid from electric vehicles(EVs) already equipped with Vehicle-to-Load(V2L) capability while supporting their staff to save money on their energy bills. The charger is uniquely positioned in the market, as it converts a vehicle's V2L output into a grid-synchronised, export-capable power supply, effectively turning compatible EVs into flexible energy assets from the driver's home. The optimisation software will optimise for the home environment. The charger is particularly effective in low-power discharge compared to DC, so will be a powerful tool when matching to a domestic baseload. The project will manufacture and deploy 10 domestic AC V2G chargers in partnership with Denbighshire County Council and Wiltshire County Council with a further five council on the advisory board and reviewing business cases for their locations. Project outputs: * Finalised hardware and software versions of the domestic AC V2G charger * Real-world trial showcasing technical performance and reliability data * Stakeholder and user feedback reports * Business cases for both local authority deployment and commercial roll-out * Hangar19's commercialisation plan for wider market entry

How can rural communities harness the opportunities in the transition to Net-Zero to improve energy resilience and mobility? The Rural Energy Resilience project builds on work carried out on earlier IUK projects to develop a package which links rural car clubs, community buildings, local renewable generation and Distribution Network Operators (DNOs), unlocking value across 5 use cases with 3 different UK built V2X technologies (AC, DC CHAdeMO & CCS): 1. _Rural Car Clubs_ - reducing charging costs from using local renewables and generating revenue by selling energy back to sites and the grid from vehicle batteries. This improves the viability of rural car clubs, improving mobility allowing people to access leisure and employment opportunities, reducing the need for second cars and compensating for poor rural bus services. 2. _Community Buildings_ a) battery storage on vehicles for their solar PV renewables, reducing their energy bills. b) backup power during powercuts for their resilience centres - using a vehicle battery to boil kettles & charge phones. c) EV chargepoints for villages which are overlooked by most chargepoint operators (CPOs). 3. _DNOs_ interested in flexibility services where the network is constrained_,_ saving revenue on network reinforcements_._ Individual use cases are not commercially viable, but stacked together they generate a moderate commercial return plus significant social and environmental impacts. The key research question is how do these use cases work together in a real world trial. The trial brings together a strong partnership of commercial and third sector partners: * JLJ Community Initiatives (JLJ) work in partnership with Blackhall Mill Community Association (BMCA) Car Club and will deliver practical trials the project - using EVs to export power back to the community centre. Cybermoor (CYB) has been working with 14 other locations, identified during survey work over the last 3 years with Local Authorities, Community Groups and Commnity Renewable Energy Operators. * Charge my Street (CMS), a CPO, will work with Indra (CHAdeMO DC & CCS AC) and Entrust Microgrid (CCS DC), UK V2X chargepoint manufacturers to operate trial locations. Fuuse will develop the software to manage the interactions and meter the energy flows between the stakeholders, reconciling them to allow simple billing. Milliamp (MIL) will test security of the hardware and software with end users in the project. The portfolio of use cases and technologies will be evaluated - to get identify critical success factors for scaling V2X roll-outs and reduce the time to market.

V2VNY Phase 2 proposes the demonstration of a unique AC-V2G solution, targeted at the non-domestic customer market, which utilizes a three-socket charger design which enables potential of V2G, V2B and V2V applications. It builds on the Phase 1 feasibility study and development project, which has proved the viability with a range of vehicle types, including MG, Kia and Hyundai. Fused with CrowdCharge's patented optimization tools, it unlocks maximum value from V2X services for clients, while GridBeyond's aggregation engine provides access to wider flexibility markets. JLR provide OEM perspective and trial vehicles. The unique design has significant potential for V2V, supporting fleets who need to prioritise energy to specific vehicles, opening new business model opportunities for different user groups. A number of business models and use cases will be trialled within the project to understand the value which can be unlocked from each.

V2VNY proposes the development of a unique AC-V2G solution, targeted at the fleet customer market, which utilizes a three-socket charger design which enables potential of V2G, V2B and V2V applications. Fused with CrowdCharge's patented optimization tools, it unlocks maximum value from V2X services for fleet clients. The unique design has significant potential for V2V, supporting critical fleets in outages or fleets who need to prioritise energy to specific vehicles, opening new business model opportunities for different user groups.

Integrated Charging and Parking Payment Terminal (ICAPPT) brings together the charging and parking payment management into a single terminal for users. It enables users to pay for both their parking and charging in one transaction, which simplifies the user journey. It removes the barriers of apps, memberships and communications issues with chargers by managing it all from a familiar parking terminal solution, ensuring chargers are available for all users. It utilises the best-in-class accessibility standards and design concepts, making it easier for disabled and elderly users to utilise the chargers. It will trial both integration of OCPP chargers offering breadth of application with a tailored charger designed to reduce cost of system implementation, with the propositions tested with real users and customers.

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The purpose of the WiCET project is to demonstrate the commercial and technical viability of wireless charging for electric Hackney Carriages in medium and large cities. Given the typical duty cycles of taxis and the required recharging times during a shift, wireless charging is considered to be an enabling technology that will support the introduction of electrified taxi operations. The installation of wireless chargers at taxi ranks for frequent charging boosts, offers the opportunity for maximising vehicle range and minimising recharging times. Wireless charging can thus help reduce the need for expensive, large batteries or to use range extender fossil fuel engines thus delivering cost effective zero emission operations. This demonstrator will prove both the technical viability in Nottingham with 9 taxis charging wirelessly and the commercial viability for a large city such as London. The project will develop a vehicle interface to enable commercially available vehicle side wireless charging systems to be either retrofitted on to an electric vehicle or fitted by an OEM as an optional extra. A ground side vehicle identification and billing system will be developed to ensure that drivers are correctly charged for the electricity used. We will also work with taxi drivers to better understand their behaviours and attitudes to electric vehicles as well as rapid and wireless charging. This project brings together all aspects of the wireless charging value chain and will clarify the route to market for both a retrofit and "factory option" product.

The electric vehicle (EV) revolution is gathering pace with more fleets, especially public sector, transitioning to EVs. Transport was highlighted as an essential pillar of the Covid19 response, with vehicles essential for providing healthcare and delivery services. While petrol stations are established, the EV charging sector is still immature and challenges remain. There is still insufficient charging infrastructure for the growing need and reliability of charging infrastructure still remains an issue. During the Covid-19 issues, there were multiple times when chargepoints failed to operate for essential service sites and required intervention to resolve the issue. To support these essential services, it was necessary to send a person to site in order to fix the chargepoint. This further highlights an issue known throughout the industry - the time taken to resolve charging point faults is too long. This is largely because a disproportionate number of faults require an engineer visit, even if it is an internal chargepoint software issue or hard reboot required. A better solution is required to reduce this need and fix more faults remotely. GRACE will develop an innovative hardware module that can be installed into existing chargepoints that allows remote access to resolve issues and the same level of access that is achieved through a site visit. This will reduce the number of engineer visits and increase the speed of issue resolution. This will significantly increase the uptime of chargers and provide a more reliable service for key worker sites. This will be backed by a software and service layer to enable a higher level of support 24/7\. The extension looks to develop this module further by creating an advanced version of the product with additional features, which will unlock additional market segments and increase revenue potential.

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GreenSCIES2 will produce a detailed design for a smart energy system to integrate new low carbon energy technologies across heat, power and transport that can be replicated across the UK. Building on learnings from the GreenSCIES1 feasibility study, the expanded consortium will develop innovative technical/business models for the provision of smart energy systems that significantly reduce whole system costs of energy, carbon emissions and result in significantly smaller bills for the end consumer. The smart energy grid will also help provide affordable warmth and reduce local pollution, with a clear path for replication elsewhere in the UK. The scheme concept is already seen as one of THE key future energy solutions for low carbon cities. The detailed design will provide an ultra-low 5th generation heat network with distributed low carbon heat pumps to supply heating/cooling using an ambient loop to exchange energy between buildings, enabling recovery of low-grade waste heat from data centres and the tube. Each of the decentralised energy centres will provide hubs for PV electricity supply, EV V2G charging/storage alongside large scale batteries. The hubs can then be used for Demand Side Response to flex with the electricity grid requirements/tariffs using a sophisticated AI based control system. This will be the first large smart energy system in the UK that integrates energy technologies across heat, power and transport, allowing wide-scale replication. This project is focussed in the London Borough of Islington but involves proving replication in the West Midlands and Sheffield. The project involves a large number of LBI residential blocks but also includes two data centres, a TFL ventilation shaft and a range of public/commercial buildings. GreenSCIES2 will also develop innovative business models for the provision of 'energy as a service' that help change consumer behaviour to reduce carbon emissions. This will be a community-based project with wide stakeholder engagement including local residents and businesses but also with policy makers and replicators. Research objectives include establishing a new replicable design methodology to reach smart energy systems. Also delivering legacy though a new academic 'Centre of Excellence' around heat networks and smart grids with extensive knowledge transfer through conferences, papers, and International engagement. GreenSCIES2 will deliver a detailed design which minimises technical/commercial risk/uncertainty, with commercial agreements in place and is 'shovel-ready' for implementation. This is an entirely innovative ground breaking project that will provide an investable low carbon scheme unique to the UK.

The NetX project is seeking to address a number of key barriers to the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs); the cost of infrastructure, the ease of use of that infrastructure, and the challenging business case for investing in that infrastructure. Solving these facilitates the 'oversupply' of connectors reducing the restriction on EV drivers (or potential EV drivers) who do not have access to off-street parking (and charging). The current business model for EV charging is based around a margin on the energy sold through the network. This requires a well utilised asset and a high turnover of vehicles. This is in direct conflict with the user experience, as users will often require the parking space for longer than the charging event duration, for example a driver without off-street parking using an on-street charger doesn't want to move their fully charged vehicle at 2am. This tension prevents the investor from maximising the utilisation of their assets and in turn restricts further investment in infrastructure, and other drivers from accessing the chargepoint, both of which inhibits the take-up of EVs. A key advantage of EVs, is that by leveraging the established electricity grid, we can offer drivers the option to plug in every time they park their vehicles. This however, requires an oversupply of chargepoints, or a vehicle rotation policy. Some technology solutions have arisen around the deployment of mobile chargers linked to a battery. These however, come with the additional overheads required to move and operate the mobile charger. The NetX solution builds on the existing charger network to increase the number of access points, without requiring the installation of additional chargers, and the associated cost, until energy demand warrants it. Therefore, if the charging demand is reaching the upper limits of a NetX installation, the owner can then install more traditional chargepoints confident in the demand for them, because NetX provides visibility, unlocking a better view of the granularity of demand and type of supply required at each location. By providing end users multiple connectors from one chargepoint, linked to a smart network, we are able to both offer a significant reduction in the cost of the infrastructure, improve the user experience by removing the need to move a charged vehicle and improve the utilisation (and ROI) of existing and planned assets.

"The EV-NETX project is seeking to address key barriers to the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs); the cost of infrastructure, the ease of use of that infrastructure, and the challenging business case for investing in that infrastructure. Our current business model for EV charging is based around a margin on the energy sold through the network. This requires a well utilised asset and a high turnover of vehicles. This is in direct conflict with the user experience, as users will often require the parking space for longer than the charging event duration. This tension prevents the investor from maximising the utilisation of their asset and other drivers from accessing the charger, both inhibiting take-up of EVs. A key advantage of EVs, is that through leveraging the established electricity grid, we can offer drivers the option to plug in every time they park their vehicles. This however, requires an oversupply of chargers, or a vehicle rotation policy. Some technology solutions have arisen around the deployment of mobile chargers linked to a battery. These however, come with the additional overheads required to move and operate the mobile charger. Our solution builds on the existing charger network to increase the number of access points, without requiring the installation of additional chargers and the associated cost, until energy demand warrants it. By providing end users multiple sockets from one charging post, linked to a smart network, we are able to both offer a significant reduction in the cost of the infrastructure, improve the user experience by removing the need to move a charged vehicle and improve the utilisation of existing assets."

"With a changing market in the car club and on-demand services sector, there are new opportunities emerging with bespoke electric vehicles to meet specific transport challenges. Within the design of the vehicles, new charging approaches and standards are being explored. This feasibility study seeks to determine the opportunity and impact of V2G opportunities in different usage scenarios for these new technologies and highlight the new market opportunities they can accelerate through the additional V2G funding stream."

"The Bluetooth Access Module with Broad Integration (BAMBI) project explores the real world challenges experienced over the last 5 years of EV market growth and creates an alternative technology strategy to the predominate state of the art for chargepoint controllers to manage user access and integration with chargepoint management systems. By leveraging development in IOT communication techniques, the technical capabilities/facilities of smartphones and our knowledge of the EV taxi and car club markets this project shall create a new control system design for a chargepoint that enable it to better operate in car club service provision, provide a method for users to access and pay for the use of chargepoint without any prior registration and increase the options for networking chargepoints so that they can be remotely monitored through an IOT solution rather than traditional GSM. This project shall deliver a cost effective product that reduces the overall cost of chargepoints, reduces the ongoing operational cost compared to GSM networking and offers operators of EV related business new alternative to intregrate EV charging solutions in their operations."

This project seeks to identify alternative approaches to provide the user interface required between the users and electric vehicle charging infrastructure in order to identify the user and confirm they are authorised to use the facility. Specifically the project intends to explore the new Bluetooth v4.0 (Smart) Protocol and explore using new facilities in the v4.0 standard for the purpose of creating a secure encrypted data channel that could be established between a chargepoint and either vehicles (navigation, dashboard electronics) or handheld devices (smartphones, tablets) in order to exchange information and provide authorisation credentials to the chargepoint to validate that the driver has permission or financial funds to be allowed access to the chargepoint facilities. The Bluetooth protocol has traditionally been used for interfacing entertainment and user interface devices. It has facilities for device authentication (to identify and handshake) and up till recently supported only relatively low levels of data encryption which was susceptible to denial-of-service attacks, eavesdropping, man-in-the-middle attacks, message modification, and resource misappropriation However the recent v4.0 edition of the standard provided AES encryption as well as numerous security improvements which is why we seek to explore using it in this particular application. Furthermore the ability to create a 'local' wireless local area network (WLAN) between chargepoint and devices that contain further internet connecting and processing capabilities allows us to explore different and new solutions to making the chargepoint an 'online' device without the need of expensive GSM modems which are today typically added into the chargepoint in order to satisfy requirements for data collection and remote control.