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UK Energy Networks has secured funding for 13 progressive initiatives via Ofgem‘s Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF), in collaboration with Innovate UK.
The funding, exceeding £6.2 million, will bolster efforts to decarbonise the UK’s warmth and transport sectors.
These initiatives, which embody initiatives like Undertaking Guidelight and Undertaking SHIELD, purpose to handle low adoption charges of time-of-use tariffs and digital applied sciences amongst low earnings and susceptible households.
Additionally they search to make the set up of low carbon applied sciences extra accessible and inexpensive for shoppers in susceptible circumstances.
The initiatives cowl a spread of areas, together with hydrogen electrolyser hub growth, decarbonisation of multi-occupancy buildings, exploring vehicle-to-grid capabilities in automotive parks and making low carbon heating inexpensive for susceptible clients.
Ian Cameron, Director of Buyer Service and Innovation at UK Energy Networks, stated: “This is a gigantic present of assist from our regulator. The SIF is an unbelievable alternative for networks to scale up their decarbonisation efforts, and we firmly assist the continued funding in innovation and the advantages it brings to our communities.
“We, alongside progressive minds from throughout our trade, are targeted on unlocking better worth, serving to our clients to decrease their power payments and speed up the UK’s low carbon transition.”
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