Lux Nova advised West Sussex County Council on its pathfinder EU funded BISEPS project, developing proposals for an estate wide private wire electricity grid, on-site roof-top solar, combined heat and power generation, storage, plus a centralised ESCO to intelligently manage supply and demand across the site, together with the provision of ancillary grid services and potentially capacity to the electricity market.
We are advising WSCC on its pathfinder EU funded BISEPS project. Chosen as one of only four European initiatives to receive funding, the project located within the Manor Royal Business District (MRBD), intends to prove models for distributed, low carbon energy generation that can be widely applied. MRBD (situated by Gatwick airport) is home to around 500 business who may participate in a site wide, low carbon infrastructure.
Lux Nova is leading with Ramboll on preparing a detailed feasibility study, examining and developing proposals for a MRBD estate wide private wire electricity grid, on-site roof-top solar, combined heat and power generation, storage, plus a centralised ESCO to intelligently manage supply and demand across the site, together with the provision of ancillary grid services and potentially capacity to the electricity market.
Lux Nova is ideally placed to provide insights to this innovative and potentially first of kind project, having unique experience advising on alternative routes to market for independent and community energy electricity generators. A small sample of our clients in this space include GLA (advising on the first licence lite model); 10:10 Foundation (advising 10:10 on their innovative solar to rail electrification project); BEIS (guidance on routes to market for electricity); Western Power Distribution (on the legalities of “virtual private wires”).
