Lane Clark & Peacock LLP

The Social Virtual Power Plant (Social VPP) empowers vulnerable and fuel-poor households to actively participate in the energy transition. By combining community-led investment with smart flexibility software, the project aggregates household batteries and demand response to lower bills, reduce carbon emissions, and strengthen grid resilience. Unlike trad...

**Renewable Energy Harvest** unlocks the untapped power of Britain's countryside by turning farm, food, and forestry residues into clean, flexible green gas. By combining biomethane and syngas production with advanced mapping and forecasting tools, the project will identify where rural resources can best connect into the gas network. This innovation suppo...

GNES (Gas Network Evolution Simulator) uses Agent Based Modelling to simulate how people, policies, and infrastructure interact as the UK transitions away from natural gas. By reflecting real-world behaviours and decisions, it helps energy networks, policymakers, and communities explore fair, cost-effective pathways to decarbonisation. GNES reveals how tr...

The GeoGrid project explores the use of Geothermal Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES) to store renewable electricity as heat with Leeds University as a trial site. LDES offers a cost-effective, scalable solution that will reduce constraint on the electricity networks. By storing off-peak electricity and discharging it during peak demand periods, LDES can...

As the owner of the National Transmission System (NTS), National Gas is committed to responsibly managing our redundant assets in a manner that contributes to a sustainable, lower-carbon future by decommissioning them responsibly, refurbishing for re-use where viable, and/or or changing their purpose where possible. This discovery project will identify de...

Energy efficiency retrofits rolled out by Local Authorities (LAs) and Social Housing Providers (SHPs), such as home insulation and storage heating, represent an opportunity to procure flexibility from disadvantaged households that are typically not able to participate in flexibility markets. Flex Direct aims to develop a new way to procure this type of fl...

Today, the vessels, docks, and ports operating on the Thames run mostly on fossil fuels, but this is changing as the river's economy decarbonises. There is limited understanding how this shift will affect the electricity network. Working together with stakeholders across marine and energy industry, we will map out the future of maritime transport in the c...

The project will explore how fuel cell micro-Combined Heat and Power (CHP) systems can provide UPS functionality for individual homes as well as support to other nearby homes which depend on direct electrification to provide heat, power and mobility. Fuel cell technology can generate at efficiencies equivalent to the highest efficiency central generation ...