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"Project LEO (Local Energy Oxfordshire) delivers a transformative integrated smart local energy system to maximise prosperity form local energy systems and demonstrate new value creation opportunities. The local power infrastructure is at capacity in Oxfordshire. SSEN will demonstrate a neutral 'Market Integrator' that provides information to allow a local energy market place to function effectively with the existing infrastructure. Three companies will develop and deploy market platforms for local energy trading and services provision. Up to 90 plug-in projects, (solar, heat networks, smart neighbourhoods, micro-grids, EV and transport hubs, new housing developments and large flexible loads) - demonstrating new models for investment. LEO is continually improved through the collection and analysis of data to provide insights to the team and to inform the County's energy strategy. This strong evidence base will enable rapid rollout across the UK and beyond. The six key outputs of the project are: 1. **Markets** - accelerating the development of a mature flexible energy market of Distributed Energy Resources that provides solutions to energy needs, constraints and decarbonisation. 2. **New Investment Models** - for Distributed Energy Resources that reflect the value of their assets and their flexibility. 3. **Model for DSO** - the Distribution System Operator is a new type of organization that facilitates the effective use of the local power infrastructure. In LEO, SSEN will demonstrate the DSO's core role of neutral facilitation of markets, to enable the utilisation of Distributed Energy Resources, and how it resolves possible conflicts of interest. 4. **Assets for Strategic Planning** - developing the tools needed to make effective and efficient whole-system decisions about the energy ecosystem. 5. **Datasets for Research** - sharing understanding so the experience can be replicated elsewhere both in the local context but also nationally through the Electricity Networks Association (ENA's) Open Networks project. 6. **Community of Skilled People** - improving the skill sets of participants and enhancing the social capital of the local energy sector in Oxfordshire and more widely across England's Economic Heartland (the Cambridge-Milton Keynes-Oxford Growth Corridor). With the support of the Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and in consort with other bodies based in the region such as the Energy Systems Catapult, the Faraday Institute and the Hydrogen Hub, workshops and networking events will be held to foster a rich innovation sector focused around the clean energy sector."

The promise of flexible mobile energy storage & supply through V2G is no less than to turn each vehicle into a net carbon reducer. The challenge is to create a market mechanism that allows these benefits to be realised with business cases for EV operators and grid/energy users. E-FLEX will create a scale demonstration of a functioning V2G market. It will combine a number of fleets with variable duty cycles, a mixed hardware ecology, and diverse energy users (grid plus facilities) with a market design that captures as much value as possible as private benefit. E-FLEX will involve a mix of urban (London) fleets (parcel delivery, car sharing, police and heath service vehicles), totalling 200 EVs. The first phase will be oriented at fixed scheduling against known end user demand. The second phase will demonstrate a dynamic (near-real time) market operation. Vehicle use and V2G cycles will be fully monitored for analysis of market operation, including adoption, use, cost of operation, value captured, and battery and vehicle performance.