theenergyst.com April/May 2018 Triad u-turn: Tide turning: Convergence: “Build offshore wind without 06 Unabated 26 Atlantis believes 42 How Gateshead subsidy? You are bonkers ” generators can do Triad it can make tidal power combines heat, power under MCPD after all cheaper than nuclear and storage to cut bills p13 Published 2018 INSIDEThe THIS Heat ISSUE Report 34 Commercial buildings A brighter, station and other lighting upgrades, plus optimised BMS savings, heating 36 eiciency boost and more Heat Tackling heat 42 will be key to decarbonisation. So Heat what are the options Gateshead Council is providing and how to get cheaper heat and power to there? The Energyst commercial and residential asked experts customers, and funding front for their views line services. How did it do it? 16Produced by Supported by The Energyst Event 52 Convergence of generation and Viewpoint consumption is happening now. 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Story deployed at scale in the UK and He thinks businesses should GridBeyond France for less cost than new instead seek to build longer- claims a breakthrough in nuclear Hinkley Point term storage business cases hybrid DSR and storage News & Comment 4 Commercial buildings 28 Products 56 Insight 12 Heat 36 Q&A 58 The Energyst Event 16 Storage 46 Emerging technologies 22 Viewpoints 50 To subscribe please visit: theenergyst.com/subscribe theenergyst.com April/May 2018 3 COMMENT The mañana energy strategy Hearing many of the inspirational speakers at The energy world is shifting from the more familiar – The Energyst Event in April disclosing how their energy delineated – procurement and energy effi ciency silos to a management strategies are becoming integrated made broader, converged, landscape. Energy effi ciency is moving me think that not only is this happening now, it is towards commoditisation that enables better fi nance yielding effective results for those that have embraced the backed by initiatives such as QualitEE (Quality Assurance converging energy landscape. Stories about incorporating Frameworks for Energy Effi ciency Services) to increase storage or onsite generation, avoiding peak tariffs, investment in energy effi ciency services and improve building energy effi ciency cases beyond simple payback trust. Pay-as-you-save schemes and, more generally, periods, innovative energy service and fi nance models, energy-as-service are aiming to unlock the vast potential and decarbonising heat, are just a few of the projects of improved effi ciency. Add to these developing areas such changing the way organisations manage energy. as streamlined DSR schemes, the potential of batteries and, more broadly, energy – and for that matter heat The energy world is shifting storage and perhaps peer-to-peer trading via blockchain, big data and the internet of things with analysis aided by from the more familiar AI – and you have a signifi cantly different picture than delineated procurement would have been the case even only a few years ago. and energy e iciency silos to a broader, converged, Some think the evolution of these new-fangled initiatives landscape is something than can be considered tomorrow, if at all – mañana. These accounts from business and the public sector about Banister House Estate in London’s making energy effi ciency stick, incorporating procurement Hackney has performed the and fl exibility into a single – coherent – approach, might UK’s fi rst peer-to-peer energy make you think that end-users have it cracked and are trade, using blockchain, from data-savvy kings of this emerging, brave, new, smart one resident to another based energy world. Yet this does not by any means seem to on onsite generation and be the rule, rather they are pioneers and exceptions to storage. It is happening today. the rule. The average fi rm’s attitude to energy is often Teams across organisations need to ambivalent. How long can this remain the case? dismantle internal barriers to effectively procure, Research by Centrica Business Solutions has found that reduce and shift businesses that have a sophisticated attitude to energy, energy consumption. invest in advanced energy solutions and measure and control energy effi ciency, are twice as likely to outperform This is not an idea competitors on customer-centricity and brand leadership. for the tomorrow Cost reductions from better energy management, yes, but because the future further reasons accumulate making the case compelling. is already here. 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Paul Lindsell [email protected] [email protected] Follow us for up-to-date news and information: m: 07790 434813 4 April/May 2018 theenergyst.com NEWS & COMMENT Environment Agency makes Triad u-turn The Environment Agency Triad avoidance, but would has shelved plans that come under the scope of the would effectively prevent rules as ‘specified generators’. unabated generators As a result, they would no performing Triad avoidance. longer be classified as ‘back-up’ Under the Medium generators, and as specified Combustion Plant Directive generators would need to (MCPD), generators that take comply with the relevant on new balancing services permitting and deadlines. agreements with National Winter peak Grid, or new Capacity Market avoidance: More questions contracts, must comply with watch this space Industry is now seeking clarity strict emissions limits by 1 on whether participating in January 2019. They are classified fitted to generators, for many Triad avoidance next winter as ‘Tranche B’ generators. businesses the cost could commits back-up generators Those that do not take on new outweigh any savings. to becoming Tranche A agreements are classified as It appears the agency has generators irreversibly. ‘Tranche A’ generators and have listened to industry concerns. “So, if you are a back-up until 2025 or 2030 to comply. A briefing note from the So, if you are a generator, can you become The EA had originally stated Association for Decentralised back-up generator, a ‘specified generator’ and Triad avoidance would be Energy states: “It has now can you become a Triad avoid, and then go classed as a balancing service, been agreed that, if a Tranche A back to being an emergency pushing Triad avoiding generator participates in Triads ‘specified generator’ generator before the generators into ‘Tranche B’, from 2019, this will not change and Triad avoid, permitting deadline in 2025?” and therefore required to its status to Tranche B, because and then go back to asked Enernoc programme meet new NOx emissions Triad is not a balancing service.” manager Shane Summers. limits by 1 January 2019. Asked by The Energyst to being an emergency “If the answer is ‘no’, then Industry was dismayed that confirm the information, the generator before the businesses must consider Triad, a billing methodology Environment Agency said: permitting deadline carefully Triad behaviour applied retrospectively by “Yes this is correct – we will in 2025? this year, because then they National Grid to determine be consulting stakeholders are committed to Tranche transmission charges, was on draft guidance in May.” A and may have to install being classified by the EA Triad avoidance from 2019 selective catalytic reduction as a balancing service. Back-up: no rule change onwards they “may not continue (SCR),” he added. The proposal would have Under the UK interpretation of to be an exempt generator if “Ideally we could have effectively ruled out unabated the MCPD, back-up generators [they] carry out Triad operation some clarity as soon as generators from taking part in are exempt from controls, in 2019 onwards, but will become possible, because businesses Triad avoidance next winter, provided they run for back-up a Tranche A or B generator”. need to make decisions including back-up generators. only. However, the EA has That means back-up now around Triad and While abatement can be indicated that if they perform generators could still provide whether to invest in SCR.” Grid confirms Triad dates Water giant now selling energy Water Plus, the joint venture competition in April 2017, National Grid confirmed this winter’s Triad periods at the between Severn Trent some 88% of Energyst end of March.