Christine Ballard

Milton Keynes Council

Community Action Platform for Energy

INTENSIFY:

More Carbon Reduction

through Intense Community Engagement

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Community Action Platform for Energy

Aim

Create a low cost method of supply and demand.

Platform links individuals, communities and

businesses to buy or sell low carbon/energy services

and products.

Partners

• SmarKlub – Co-ordinators

• Tech Mahindra – Build platform

• Open University – Computing and social marketing

• Satellite Application Catapult – Images

• Community Action MK – build projects

• Milton Keynes Council – local knowledge

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CAPE PROVIDE ENERGY USERS

WITH

project building tools meaningful data tools

which help to understand

how energy is consumed in Milton

Keynes

OPPORTUNITIES AND POTENTIALS OF FUTURE

ENERGY PROJECTS

CITIZENS

the main factors that describe & determine

consumption

What does CAPE do?

LOCAL SME SUPPLIERS

LANDLORDS BUSINESSES COMMUNITIES

RESEARCHERS

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Resilience and security

Local income generation

Re -Invested communities

CAPE INCENTIVES - DRIVERS(3 Pillars)

Carbon emissions reduction Regulation compliance

Local services

Drivers of and barriers to urban energy in the UK: a Delphi survey; G.Sherriffa 2013 What are the barriers and incentives for community-owned means of energy production and use?; G. Walker 2008

ENVIRONMENTAL

Community taking control

Fuel poverty reduction

Job creation

Connected communities

SOCIAL IMPACT

ECONOMIC

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CAPE What could CAPE offer? : A Conceptualisation

Map existing data

Project generation

Process to achieve

Local Supply Chain

CAPE

Generate gap data

Organise Data

Connect Communities

Process to achieve

All Channel

Communication

Build Action

Project Aggregation

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Sample Mock-Up for C002

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Project smedia

Thank you!

Questions welcome