Designing a smart, sustainable local energy system for a UK city
Integrating heat, power and transport into a single intelligent system to drive economic growth and decarbonisation.
Published: 1 Apr 2021
Type: Case study
Enhancing quality of life through smarter solutions
As urban environments come under increasing pressure to reduce carbon emissions, manage growing populations and improve citizens’ quality of life, how can stakeholders achieve their objectives while ensuring sustainability and value?
Our Smart Cities Centre of Excellence is a team of trusted knowledge practitioners who can deliver holistic, customised solutions to help build the smart urban environments of the future.
Collaborating with public and private organisations and our network of specialists, we combine independent advice, intelligent planning, expert stakeholder management and the latest developments in renewable technology to support cities, towns and districts on their smart journey towards net zero.
Our expertise encompasses all the major energy and environmental challenges facing today’s urban environments, including facilitating the electric vehicle revolution, easing traffic congestion, increasing uptake of energy efficient heating systems and improving air quality.
Such challenges can’t be tackled in isolation. Instead, our Smart Cities team adopts an integrated, end-to-end approach that ensures the best outcomes and most sustainable solution for all stakeholders, underpinned by maximum use of clean energy sources and associated smart technology.
Our ultimate goal is to prepare urban environments and their citizens for a changing world, delivered with minimal complexity, low cost and supported by robust analysis and due diligence.