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IGEM NEWS | Young Persons Paper Competition 2017

The Freedom Project

By Oliver Lancaster, Future of Energy Project Manager
for Wales & West Utilities and YPPC 2017 finalist

reedom is a £5.2 million frequency response services. The electricity networks to manage a
industry first, cross-sector consumer, network, carbon and smart hybrid future.
collaboration project to energy system benefits of aggregated Freedom is seeking to articulate the
understand the potential controls are also being explored. consumer cost, carbon and energy
role of multi-vector system security benefits of large-scale
F solutions in supporting the Aims and objectives of the project deployment of hybrid heating systems
low cost decarbonisation of domestic Freedom simulates a dense commercial and to provide insight into balancing
heating. We’re collaborating with roll-out of hybrid heating systems to the interests of consumers, suppliers
Western Power Distribution (WPD) and understand relevant technologies and and network operators.
PassivSystems on this project, along how they work in a smart hybridised
with our other project partners Delta environment. It assesses commercial The project team
Energy & Environment (Delta-ee), drivers for heat service provision, Alongside the two main funding
Imperial College and City University. impact on the increasingly integrated parties, the other main contributor is
Based in Bridgend’s ‘Living Heat energy system and consumer PassivSystems, which leads the
Lab’, Freedom investigates the interaction and behaviour with day-to-day project management.
consumer, network and energy outsourced heating control. This could PassivSystems has developed control
system implications of fully- inform changes to: heat policy; algorithms, designed the architecture
optimised hybrid heating system potential new and/or amended of the smart switching system,
deployment, where domestic heating installation and technical standards; overseen the recruitment of homes
systems have the flexibility to commercialisation opportunities with and the procurement and installation
operate using a standard gas boiler new business models and potential of the hybrid heating systems. The
or an air source heat pump (ASHP). investment requirements for gas and company also supervises the sub-
Bridgend was chosen for the trial
due to its prominence in hosting
surveys, studies and experimental We want to demonstrate the smart
trials in the future of energy sphere. ability of the hybrid system to switch
The area is also within the network
geographies of both principal funders. between gas and electric load, providing
We want to demonstrate the smart fuel arbitrage and highly flexible
ability of the hybrid system to switch
between gas and electric load, demand response and frequency
providing fuel arbitrage and highly
flexible demand response and response services

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