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GRANT FUNDS NEW COMMUNITY APPROACH

TO NET ZERO IN EAST BIRMINGHAM

build on this research, incorporating
environmental and socio-economic
data and a more sophisticated
understanding of household energy
use gathered through the community
learning platform.
Knowledge sharing to help meet
widespread demand from policy
makers, homeowners and businesses
for understandable, costed solutions
for housing retrofit and heat
decarbonisation, establishing East
Birmingham as a pioneer of green
energy and fuel poverty solutions.

The Birmingham Energy Institute
CADENT FOUNDATION GRANT FUNDS EAST will work in partnership with Places in
BIRMINGHAM HEAT TEST AND LEARN PROJECT Common, a public policy co-operative
working to drive systems change, and
THE BIRMINGHAM ENERGY Institute groups, businesses, industry, and The Active Wellbeing Society (TAWS),
has been awarded a £123,900 grant government bodies to explore a community benefit society and
from the Cadent Foundation to develop opportunities, share knowledge cooperative focused on developing
a new collaborative approach for and define future approaches and healthy, happy communities living
engaging local communities in the innovation. It will bring together active and connected lives.
transition to net zero. different groups to identify new Julia Dwyer, Director of the Cadent
The funding will be used to create measures, develop common language Foundation, said: “We’re delighted
the East Birmingham Community on retrofit and heat decarbonisation to partner with Birmingham Energy
Heat Test and Learn project. This new and facilitate a better understanding Institute on this initiative which will not
initiative aims to create solutions to of residents’ lived experience of only directly benefit households in East
address the challenges of retrofit and heating their homes. Birmingham but will hopefully also create
heat decarbonisation, by bringing Developing business and financing a blueprint for new strategies across
together residents, policy makers and models for retrofit and energy the UK. Projects like this have a huge
businesses, and engaging them in the systems that can be tailored and part to play in engaging everyone in the
journey to net zero. used as a template for schemes transition to net zero, ensuring no one is
The project will focus on three core across the UK. Initial modelling left behind in the drive to a greener, more
elements: has identified the areas across East sustainable energy future.”
Creating an East Birmingham Birmingham in greatest need of
community learning platform retrofit and new heating solutions, The Cadent Foundation is funded by
to offer a real-time shared but which are least able to afford Cadent. For more information, visit
space for residents, community the new measures. The project will www.cadentfoundation.com

combination of our services in this power prices develop and what shop for their energy projects.
area is an excellent strategic fit. factors can affect their evolution in “We are providing a holistic
Antuko joining the DNV family gives each market is also critical to help approach, covering both the
us the opportunity to offer better decision makers fully understand the technical dimension of the project,
services to our customers,” he added. risk landscape they operate in and so including the amount of energy a
“Through this integration into DNV, make the right investment choices for project and portfolio could generate
Antuko will gain access to a much their risk preferences. based on technology and also the
larger global network as well as the Santiago Blanco, Regional Director, market revenues that they could
opportunity to expand its services,” Southern Europe, Middle East, Africa obtain as well as ways to optimise
said Olivier Potart, founder and CEO and Latin America Energy Systems a customer’s commercial strategy.
of Antuko. at DNV, concludes: “The integration With this acquisition, DNV continues
Reliable power price forecasts are of Antuko's capabilities into our to consolidate its position as a market
essential to the decision-making DNV portfolio offers our customers, leader in the very dynamic market of due
process for energy investments. investors, financial institutions, diligence for energy project finance and
Deeper insight into how wholesale owners and operators, a one-stop- mergers and acquisitions advisory.”

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