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KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER NETWORK
THE UK’S INNOVATION NETWORK
The UK’s Innovation Network
What we do
The KTN is the UK’s innovation network. We bring together businesses,
entrepreneurs, academics and funders to develop new products and services.
We help business to grow the economy and improve people’s lives by capturing
maximum value from innovative ideas, scientific research and creativity
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Introducing the KTN
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The Knowledge Transfer Network
Enabling Collaboration
Strategic
Connecting people
who wouldn’t
usually meet to
solve innovation
challenges
Interdisciplinary
Bringing together
businesses and
researchers from
different sectors
Entrepreneurial
Linking people with
new ideas and
technologies to
partners and
customers
Commercial
Introducing
innovators to public
and private funders
and investors
Our energy system is changing...
Sustainable
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Is driven by
Affordable
Energy
trilemma
Secure
Causing
Energy production changes:
- Less flexible generation
- More variable output
- Mix of central and local
- Consumers to suppliers
Demand Shifts
- Changing use patterns
- Government stimulation
- Electrification of heat and
transport
System Concerns
- Electricity capacity margin
now <5%
- Infrastructure inadequacy
E.g. Storage
Resulting in an increased complexity and uncertainty.......
Demand-led control of supply
Independent unidirectional vectors
Centralised generation
Balancing demand and supply
Multidirectional interdependent vectors
Generation at multiple scales & sites
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........and opportunities for businesses to respond to challenges through innovation
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Some Opportunity Areas
Energy
Built Environment
Integration of renewable
energy supplies
Balancing supply and
demand
Developing a resilient
energy system
Active control and
communication systems
Integrating DC and
charging systems into
buildings
Delivering packages of
infrastructure
improvements to support
growth and reduce capital
and revenue costs
ICT/Digital
increased engagement in
generating, using, and
trading energy locally
Enhanced data
management and security.
£10m Urban Community Energy Fund
Some key points (courtesy RegenSW)
A least 60MW of community-owned
renewable electricity generation capacity
is currently in operation
Communities have invested ~£17m in
community renewable electricity
through 40 community share offers.
If current growth rate is maintained, this
could rise to more than £320m by 2020, or
as much as £1.5bn under the most
optimistic scenario
.
•https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/comm
unity-energy-strategy
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DECC Community Energy Strategy
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Localised Energy Systems
A cross-sector approach for collaborative RD&D
£11m competition funded by Innovate UK and EPSRC
Intelligent SME energy
management and trading
with ancillary services
Maximising waste water
and energy utilisation
through combined AD, PV
and heat systems
Managing flexibly
generated electricity
across local battery
storage systems
Using Hydrogen as a
storage medium for
intermittent generating
sources
Virtual Power Plant to
maximise utility of energy
produced from disparate
sources
Modeling of PV and heat
systems for clustered
buildings.
“One out of every five people on Earth lives
without access to electricity and the
opportunities it provides for working,
learning, or operating a business. Twice as
many – nearly 3 billion people – use wood,
coal, charcoal, or animal waste to cook their
meals and heat their homes, exposing
themselves and their families to smoke and
fumes that damage their health and kill nearly
2 million people a year. Without access to
energy, it is not possible to achieve the
Millennium Development Goals.”
Vision Statement by Ban Ki-moon (November
) Secretary-General of the United Nations
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1.1 Energy and development
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What now?
No easy answer – but do-able!
Technology
Appropriate?
DRL?
Scaleable?
Production?
Funding
Public
Private
Own investment
Charity
Business Model
Markets are different!
New markets don’t need
(or want) old technology.
BUT simple is good
Contacts
End-user community
engagement
Training
Feet on the ground.
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Questions?
[email protected]