Making rapid decarbonisation reality with Eastern New Energy (ENE)

The ENE project is collaborating with business, particularly SMEs, councils, housing associations, communities, universities and other research bodies as well as households and individuals to better understand the barriers to decarbonising their communities, buildings, transport and lives. This exciting project is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and is helping businesses develop new technology and decrease their carbon footprint whilst analysing barriers to the uptake of low carbon practices with practical solutions on the ground.

Led by the University of East London, the £10.2m project will run until December 2022 and covers the counties of Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Rutland and parts of Lincolnshire and Essex. Our team includes specialists in energy; utilities; infrastructure; innovation; investors; digital (GIS, geospatial big data and analytics, IoT/smart cities applications, artificial intelligence, coordinating community action); universities; construction companies; local authorities and community groups.

We are looking for consultants or organisations to help us lead and focus on business and citizen-led innovation, in the areas non-domestic energy use and innovative applications of data, and the management challenges these present. These consultants or organisations will work hand in hand with the SRI, to bring specialists together with people with ideas and problems, and work together to decarbonise their communities, businesses and lives. We will achieve business support targets along the way, and results from the Eastern Region will inform plans to remove these barriers across the UK.

Opportunities

Two of six proposed innovation cluster projects (ICPs) are developing fast. First, accelerating the decarbonisation of industrial parks and trading estates. In theory, trading estates present excellent opportunities for energy efficiency, generation and storage. In practice, most of these opportunities go unrealised.

The second ICP is in data. Poor information or gaps in information lead to delays, inaction and poor decisions and misallocation of investment. The ENE project is assessing how to unlock the value of data to help accelerate smart decisions on green strategies.

Two opportunities are now available on Contract Finder and be accessed via:

1. Innovation Cluster Lead: ICP1 Business Energy Users/Industrial Estates – Contracts Finder     

2. Innovation Cluster Lead: ICP3 Suffolk Data Trust – Contracts Finder

   
   

Potential bidders can access the tender documents and respond to the opportunity via Proactis https://supplierlive.proactisp2p.com/Account/Login.

For more information on the project please contact ene@uel.ac.uk 

The ENE project is funded by the England European Regional Development Fund as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-2020. For more information visit https://www.gov.uk/european-growth-funding