Regional Energy System Optimisation Planning (RESOP)

Status:

Live

Project Reference Number:

NIA_SSEN_0071

STRATEGY THEME:

Whole energy systems

START DATE:

END DATE:

Oct 2023Oct 2025

Project summary

Funding Licensee(s):

Cadent - Central
Cadent - Eastern
Cadent - North London
Cadent - North West
Cadent - West Midlands
SGN - Scotland
SGN - Southern England (inc South London)
SSEN - Southern Electric Power Distribution Plc

Funding mechanism:

NIA_RIIO-2

Technology:

Community Schemes
Digital Network
Stakeholder Engagement

Expenditure:

£2,894,576

Preceding Projects:

Third Party Collaborators:

Advanced Infrastructure
DNV
Faculty AI
Field Dynamics
Landmark
Regen
WSP UK Ltd
Centre for Sustainable Energy
Urban Tide

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The RESOP project is a continuation of NIA Whole Systems Growth Scenario Modelling Phase 2 (WSGSM2). It will continue to develop digital tools necessary to create Local Area Energy Plans (LAEPs) and Local Heat and Energy Efficiency Strategies (LHEES). It aims to bring together a wider range of subject matter experts (SMEs), including Distribution Network Operators (DNOs), Gas Distribution Networks (GDNs), Heat Network Specialists, Water Networks and LCT specialists, for the purpose of building LAEPs.

Benefits

Below we have included an indication of some expected benefits, illustrating some direct benefits of digitising LAEPs.

Presently, the main way of creating a LAEP is by paying for a contractor to carry out the work, which typically takes about nine months and costs in the hundreds of thousands of pounds. The outputs of these LAEPs is a pdf document that quickly becomes outdated and as such is suggested to be renewed every four years. This represents a significant ongoing cost to Local Authorities that have to pay for these plans and due to the fast moving nature of the energy industry the plans can become outdated quickly and represent a challenge to turn the plans into delivery work.

Digital tools such as LAEP+ are being developed to create ‘living LAEPS’ that can be updated monthly/daily/hourly, depending on data availability. This makes the LAEPs more resilient to change i.e. they can be re-run more frequently and as such offer more value for turning plans into delivery. Costs are also reduced vs the contractor approach, which means cost savings can also be realised. A high level view of cost savings is presented below.

Base Cost
Average cost of paying consultants to carry out a LAEP per LA - £100k every 4 years, or £25k per annum

Method Cost
Average cost of using LAEP+ tool to create a LAEP per LA per annum is £15k

Savings per LA = £25k - £15k = £10k
Savings across 317 LAs in the UK = £7.925m -£4.755m = £3.17m per annum

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NIA_SSEN_0071 Annual Progress Report 2024-05-28 11_13 (36.8 KB) 2024-05-28

2024-05-28

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NIA_SSEN_0071 RESOP Progress Report 2024 Final.pdf (583.1 KB) 2024-05-28

2024-05-28

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NIA Project Registration and PEA Document 2023-10-11 12_15 (73.5 KB) 2023-10-11

2023-10-11

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NIA_SSEN_0071 RESOP PEA final.pdf (790.5 KB) 2023-09-26

2023-09-26

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