Simon Roberts, Chief Executive at the Centre for Sustainable Energy explains Bristol's vision to be a Smart Energy City.

1. Towards a smart energy city?
Presentation to Bristol 2015 Go Green Event
1 July 2015
Simon Roberts OBE
Chief Executive @cse_bristol

2. Outline
• Our vision for Bristol Smart Energy City
• The Collaboration and its purpose
• What needs to be understood
• The importance of scale and the public interest
• Implications for policy – ‘in spite of’ or ‘because of’?

4. Our Smart Energy City ‘Vision’
By 2020, having taken an integrated approach to
smart meter roll-out and city-wide data capture and
analytics, Bristol will have a public-interest
organisation orchestrating smart use, distribution
and supply of heat and power across the city.

5. Opportunities for a ‘smart energy city’
• Curbing energy waste and peak demand
• Enhancing the value of local distributed energy generation
• Smart approaches to tackling fuel poverty
• Stimulating & capturing the economic benefits of being smarter
• Developing fine grain understanding of city energy system
But what to do now (and next) to realise these?

7. The Collaboration
• Linked to Bristol 2015, funded principally from ‘in kind’
• KPMG, DNV-GL, Arup, Bristol City Council (‘energy’ and ‘futures’)
University of Bristol (computer science, electronic engineering, estates),
Western Power Distribution, Knowle West Media Centre, Secure Group,
Demand Logic, Bristol Is Open
• Workshops on each ‘opportunity’ (including wider stakeholder
involvement), shared analysis, plan-making
• Comprehensive road map – or ‘navigational chart’ – by December 2015

8. Interlinked strands
• Technical (energy)
• Technical (IT and data)
• Commercial
• Regulatory/policy
• Social/cultural

9. Outcomes
• A detailed understanding of complex web of technical, commercial,
regulatory, and social aspects involved
• A clear sense of the skills, capabilities and facilities required across the
city
• A plan for how these might be viably established and how they might
best be orchestrated

10. Size
matters

11. Public interest matters too

12. Implications for policy and practice?
• Engagement at city-level in smart meter roll-out plans – with
whom and why?
• More technical experiments or capacity building?
• Regulatory and commercial frameworks for local ‘system services’
and potential to recover value created?
• Opportunities for business energy consumer involvement in
‘experimental’ phases?
• Others?

13. Thank you
simon.roberts@cse.org.uk
www.cse.org.uk
@cse_bristol