Attendees came from a range of sectorsincluding local and central government,energy suppliers anddistributors,universities,engineering companiesand NGOs.

to a packed event at the end of last year. Bringing together a cross-disciplinary core

of organisations from the public, private,voluntary and academic sectors, thecollaboration developed a deeperunderstanding of the opportunities and veryconsiderable challenges involved.

Our progress report, available todownload, explains our findings to date andlays out three diagrammatic ‘road maps’,also available as A3 spreads to download.

1 Using smart energy data to curb energywaste and peak demand.

2 Enhancing the value of local renewablegeneration.

3 Smarter ways to tackle fuel poverty andassociated vulnerabilities.

mart energy could be amazing.Which means that a Smart EnergyCity in the UK could be reallyamazing. Right?

Wrong. Because it won’thappen. Not unless cities like Bristol leadthrough example to ensure that national andcorporate smart energy policies andinitiatives embrace city-scale action and trulyreflect the public interest.

If they don’t, ‘smart energy’ will end upthe preserve of corporate interests and atech-savvy minority, providing limited benefitsto a few and failing to realise its full potentialto transform our energy system. Not so smart.

This is a core conclusion of the first yearof the Bristol Smart Energy CityCollaboration, convened by CSE, presented

Energise is produced a couple of times a year and distributed free. To request a copy email us at newsletter@cse.org.ukWe also send out a fortnightly enews; sign up at www.cse.org.uk/enews

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his newly updated pub-lication explores whatcommunities can dothrough neighbourhood

planning to mitigate and adaptto climate change and tacklefuel poverty.

It draws on policy examplesfrom neighbourhood plans indifferent parts of the country,covering renewable energy,energy efficiency, sustainabletransport, flooding and greeninfrastructure.

Dan Stone is one of theauthors. “The guidebook alsocovers sources of evidence tosupport neighbourhood planpolicies, along with non-plan-ning activities or projects that arange of communities have pur-sued successfully in the past toaddress community priorities,”he said. “We hope the updatedand rationalised edition is aspopular as the previous ones.”

We are now halfwaythrough our two-year pro-gramme to support neighbour-

Stay in touch with our Community Energy Update

Did you know that every month we produce a free newsletter forcommunity energy groups and similar organisations? It’s aprintable PDF, and our subscribers (we’re approaching 1,000) getan alert by email as each monthly issue is published.

Easy to read, nicely laid-out and full of handy stuff, theCommunity Energy Update typically contains fundingopportunities, case studies, new initiatives and plenty of useful information for those wishing to start sustainable energy projects in their neighbourhood.

Click here for the latest issues: www.cse.org.uk/communities-update

This is what we’re asking ofyoung people in ourleadership trainingprogramme for 15 to 19 yearolds that launched in March.

Funded by a £1m grantfrom the Big Lottery, BrightGreen Future will give around200 young people the skills,knowledge and practicalexperience to help themshape the future of theirneighbourhoods over thenext five years.

Each young person willparticipate in the programmefor two years and be part ofa cohort that will attendtraining and a four-dayresidential summer schooltogether.

Bridget Newbery isleading the project. “We’ll behelping the young peopledevelop their confidence andskill sets so that they canbecome environmental

Youth programme toinspire next generationof decision-makers

THE FUTURE’S BRIGHT, THE FUTURE’S GREEN

Popular neighbourhoodplanning guidebook updated

hood planning groups in draft-ing low carbon NeighbourhoodPlans. If you’ve used the guide-book to inform your neighbour-hood planning activities we’dlove to hear how you got on.

“It’s an evolving document”said Dan, “so we welcome allfeedback and ideas for inclusionin the next edition.” You canemail your comments todan.stone@cse.org.uk

Download the guide at:www.cse.org.uk/lcnp

“ It’s your world! Step up and be heard”

leaders and decision makersin their own right – and makesure their generation’s voiceis heard,” she said.

The Bright Green Futuretraining will be challengingand diverse. It will includeonline and face-to-facetraining, work placementsand shadowing ofprofessionals. The summerschool will include expertspeakers, and hands-onactivities and workshopsthrough which young peoplewill learn about decisionmaking in theory and byseeing it in action.

“Our participants will planand deliver their own lowcarbon energy project – onethat has positive outcomesfor the local environment andcommunity,” said Bridget. “Atthe same time they will learnfrom – and be inspired by –professionals affecting today’slocal and nationalenvironmental policy.”

More details at www.cse.org.uk/bgf

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Buildings that are used asa community facility andare located in the vicinityof a wind turbine orhydro plant owned byThrive Renewables (formerlyTriodos Renewables) canapply for up to £4,000 to makevarious energy improvements.

The map on the right shows allThrive Renewables’ sites in England,Wales and Scotland, but to be eligibleyou really need to be very close to one ofthese. A list of postcode areas is given in thisguidance document: www.bit.ly/1NUX2qt

The scheme is open until November2016 and grants will be awarded on amonthly basis. The kind ofimprovements that can be fundedvaries from simple measures like draughtproofing to larger building upgradeslike renewable energy systems,subject to an energy surveycompleted by the building’s representative.

Funding for communitybuildings nearThriveRenewablessites

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nother year, and another£50,000 distributed to villagehalls, arts centres, sports clubs,

and other community buildings to makethem more energy efficient, thanks tofunding from distribution networkoperator, Western Power Distribution(WPD).

This was the fourth round of theWPD Community Chest which givesgrants to community facilities within thearea covered by WPD’s network of gaspipes and electricity cables. In all, 200buildings have benefitted from thescheme which CSE administers on WPD’sbehalf with grants of up to £1,000 forenergy saving improvements.

“In this round we noticed a bigincrease in applications for LEDlighting,” said Heather Crane whomanages the scheme. “LEDs can save awhopping 90% of a building’s lightingbill, so it’s no wonder that so many haveopted for lighting upgrades, with plansto use the savings made to pay for otherimprovements in the future.”

Patchway Community Centre inSouth Gloucestershire is one such group.The centre manager told us: “We hadthe LED panels installed in our hall, andit’s as if someone has cut skylights in theceiling, the hall is now so bright andcheerful. Our total power usage hasbeen halved ... meaning we won’t putup room fees this year.”

Other beneficiaries were the Old PostCentre in Swadlincote, Derbyshire whoreplaced three very draughty windows,the Arts Factory in Rhondda (below)who had a warmer winter thanks totheir new condensing combi boiler, andKnappe Cross Community Centre inDevon who will be making hefty savingsafter installing cavity wall insulation.

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See CSE’s National Heat Map on Imperial College’s ‘immersive data’ wall

The picture above shows CSE’sNational Heat Map beingdemonstrated at ImperialCollege’s high-tech DataObservatory in London.

The large-scale computerscreens show four views fromthe Heat Map: 1 overview of

south-east England; 2 close-up of the streets aroundImperial showing the colourgradation of heat demandfrom high (red) to blue (low);3 a Google Earth view ofKensington with ExhibitionRoad highlighted; 4 a Google

Street View of CromwellRoad.

The Data Observatory(opened in November 2015) isa state-of-the-art, circulardigital display givingresearchers an immersive 313-degrees perspective. It’s the

largest of its kind in Europe,and a unique tool thevisualisation of data – such asthat generated and displayedby the National Heat Map –in a way that uncovers newinsights.

Joshua Thumim, CSE’sHead of Research & Analysis,said “We’re exploring thepossibilities of collaboratingwith Imperial College ondistribution network analysisproblems – it was great to seeour national heat mapdisplayed on the dataobservatory, which has hugepotential to support group-based use of such tools.”

The National Heat Mapwas created by CSE in 2010and commissioned by theDepartment of Energy andClimate Change to supportthe planning and deploymentof low-carbon energyprojects, such as districtheating systems. Read moreat www.cse.org.uk/heatmap.

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ow might theimminent flood ofhousehold smart-meter energy databest be used in the

public interest? This was thetopic of a research challenge setby CSE and Sustainability Firstlast summer with funding fromTEDDINET.

The resulting papers werepublished following an expert inMarch this year. The first, bySimon Elam of University CollegeLondon, looks at the possiblepublic value of the data from atop-down, national perspective,

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Simon Roberts, CSE’s ChiefExecutive, co-chaired the expertworkshop and said “We set thisresearch challenge because sofar current discussion on smartenergy data has been largelybound by opportunities forcommercial exploitation.However, as these papers show,the data also has huge potentialfor applications in the publicinterest.

“We need to make sure theinvestment we are all makingthrough our energy bills enablesthis potential to be realised andthat wider societal goals as wellas commercial interests areserved.”

CSE has been exploring thisissue at city-scale through theBristol Smart Energy CityCollaboration (see p1) which isseeking to establish how a cityshould organise itself to usesmart energy data to supportlocal energy schemes, to targetimprovements to energyefficiency and to plan anddevelop infrastructure for heatgeneration, housingdevelopment and electricvehicles.

Download the papers or findout more about the TEDDINETresearch challenge at:www.cse.org.uk/news/view/2091

What can can be done, inthe public interest, withthe avalanche of energy-use data that smart meterswill soon be generating?

while the second, by Jess Brittonat the University of Exeter, whichtakes a regional and localapproach.

Both authors anticipate thatamong the several uses of smart-meter data will be tailoredconsumer advice, evidenceto improve policy, andbetter targetedinterventions to supportvulnerable consumers.

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ospital managers and socialcare providers should makesure people are going back toa warm enough home whenthey are discharged. And GPs

and other health professionals should makesure that people with health problemsassociated with a cold home are receivingtailored help from a single-point-of-contactexpert service.

These are two of six new qualitystandards for the NHS and other healthproviders laid down by NICE, the NationalInstitute for Health and Care Excellence,published in March 2016.

This comes one year after NICE releasedguidance on preventing illness andpremature deaths by tackling cold homes,together with a substantial review of theevidence to justify action.

The NICE guidelines include therecommendation that vulnerable peopleshould not be discharged from health or

id you know that energycompanies and other utilities arerequired to maintain a list of

vulnerable customers who, due to theirage, health or other circumstance get anenhanced service? It’s called the PriorityServices Register (PSR), and it entitles theutility’s most vulnarable customers tobenefits such as emergency help in theevent of a powercut.

People on the Priority ServicesRegisters are often those most at risk offuel poverty, and are therefore the kindof householder that CSE is particularlykeen to help.

So, for the past year we’ve been

Providing advice to1,000s of vulnerablecustomers on thePriority ServicesRegister

providing advice to customers onWestern Power Distribution’s PSR in aservice called Power Up Advice. After asuccessful first year, the service is evenbigger and better in 2016.

We anticipate advising a further2,500 existing PSR customers and have atarget of adding 500 more vulnerablepeople to the WPD register.

“Last year our advisors did a terrificjob, advising more than twice thenumber of customers we’d planned tospeak to,” said Jamie Walters whomanages the service. “As a result, WPDhave significantly upped the funding –and targets – for 2016.”

Power Up Advice offers support in fivekey areas:

1) Income maximisation: Are peopleclaiming all the financial supportthey’re entitled to?

2) Tariff switching: Could you savemoney by switching supplier, tariff orpayment method?

3) Energy efficiencymeasures: Is fundingavailable to improvehome insulation?

4) Heating system improvements: Is funding available to upgradeboilers and heating controls?

5) Behavioural changes: Can peoplealter the way they use their homesto improve comfort and reduce theirenergy bills?

We’ve now expanded the service toinclude referrals to non-energy servicessuch as grants for home improvementslike handrails and stair lifts, plus tolocal fire services to install smokealarms and other fire-prevention kit.

Don’t discharge patients back tocold homes, says NICENew national quality standards for health service published

Hsocial care settings into cold homes.

CSE’s Chief Executive Simon Roberts wasan expert advisor to NICE on tackling coldhomes and a member of the committeewhich drew up the quality standards. “Thenew quality standards establish clear actionsfor the health service to ensure vulnerablepeople get the help they need to keep safelywarm at home. Under-heated, cold homesare a major cause of ill-health and contributesignificantly to winter pressures on theNHS,” he said.

Simon added that, “In its 2015 guidance,NICE stated that the health service should befar more involved in solving this problem.These new standards set out even moreclearly how that can be done and howimpact and effectiveness can be measured.”

NICE describes its quality standards as “aconcise set of prioritised statementsdesigned to drive measurable improvementsin the three dimensions of quality – patientsafety, patient experience and clinical

effectiveness – for a particular area of healthor care.”

CSE will use these standards in ourcontinuing work with the health service inBristol, Somerset and Wiltshire to put theNICE guidance into practice and deliver moreintegrated services to prevent illness bytackling cold homes.

Download the new quality standards atwww.nice.org.uk/guidance/qs117

Patients should notbe discharged backto unhealthy homes,says a new NICEquality standard

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ristol may have passed the mantle ofEuropean Green Capital to Ljubljanabut the initiatives we started inBristol2015 are sustaining

momentum into 2016. From strategic approaches to tackling the

health impacts of cold homes to mappingout a route towards Bristol becoming aSmart Energy City, there has been significantprogress in 2015 and the prospect of moreto come.

“We’ve really made the most of therallying point created by Bristol 2015,” saysCSE’s Chief Executive, Simon Roberts. “Ithelped us to bring together organisations toaddress significant energy-related challengesfor the city, and a year on, we’ve seengenuine progressand meaningfulchanges.”

One of our coreprojects for the year,supported by a strategicgrant from Bristol 2015, wasPITCH (‘Preventing Illness by

BTackling Cold Homes’) in which we’veengaged with the health sector, the counciland other partners to take the first stepstowards a city-wide programme to addressthe ill-health and misery caused by coldhomes (see www.cse.org.uk/pitch).

Another was the Bristol Smart EnergyCity Collaboration where we convened across-disciplinary group of public, private,academic and voluntary sector organisationsto develop our understanding of what itwould mean for Bristol to become agenuinely Smart Energy City (see p1 orwww.cse.org.uk/bsecc).

Simon sees this momentum as a sign ofreal success. “One of our own successcriteria for our contribution to Bristol 2015

was that we created genuinemomentum for change. There’sno doubt that’s happened,

creating a very real sense that thework doesn’t stop here.”

“The Government must do much moreto reduce consumer energy bills byimproving the energy efficiency of newand existing homes.”

That’s the view of the House ofCommons Energy and Climate ChangeCommittee whose report Home EnergyEfficiency and Demand Reduction waspublished on 12 March.

To support its conclusions, the reportdraws frequently on evidence given to theCommittee by CSE’s Chief Executive SimonRoberts in a two-hour session at the endof last year.

The Committee, led by Angus MacNeilMP, calls on the Government to promptlyestablish “adequate policies with long-term, ambitious objectives, which restoreconfidence to the [energy efficiency]industry.”

Simon is pleased that the Committeehas put down a strong marker on homeenergy efficiency.”The call for a long-termobjective echoes our evidence thathouseholders and building companiesneed a much stronger sense of thedirection and speed of travel in improvingBritain’s inefficient housing stock.The Committee has recognised theneed to move on from short-termgrant pots and complicatedobligations to a comprehensivelong-term strategy, and DECCshould bear this in mind asthey overhaul Green Deal andother failed programmes.”

Energy and ClimateChange Committeereport draws onCSE evidence

Simon Roberts (right) gives evidence to the Energyand Climate Change Committee. To his right is DrJan Rosenow of the University of Sussex

ur 3-year Low Energy ApartmentFutures (LEAF) project came to aclose in March this year and a

range of materials and policyrecommendations have been produced,all of which are on the LEAF website atwww.lowenergyapartments.eu

The European collaboration sawpartner organisations from Austria,France, Germany, Hungary, Sweden andthe UK explore ways to improve theenergy efficiency of buildings withmultiple owners. CSE was one of the UKpartners and the project was led byChangeworks in Scotland.

CSE’s Bridget Newbery said: “We’redelighted with the attention the project

Valuable lessons fromEuropean project tomake apartmentblocks more efficient

has received. Improving the energyefficiency of apartment blocks which arein multiple ownership is both verychallenging and critical to achievingEurope’s energy and carbon reductiontargets.”

The popularity of a webinar to sharethe project findings emphasised this.Around 250 people from 46 countriestuned in.

To watch the webinar, or to see a 2-minute film we made about LEAF and itsmain outcomes, seewww.cse.org.uk/news/view/2093

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Carrying on beyond Bristol 2015

You can read a transcript of the session thatincludes Simon’s evidence to the Energy andClimate Change Committee atwww.bit.ly/1Of1zVs, or even watch Simonon ParliamentLive.TV at www.bit.ly/207d98fGreen roar ... one of Ljubljana’s

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eople in Wiltshirewhose homes are coldand/or damp, can nowget help from a wholehost of organisations

– including CSE – through asingle point of contact.

This is in line with newguidance on cold homes fromthe National Institute ofClinical Excellence (NICE) thatrecommends that the healthservice has a single place tomake referrals for localresidents who need help tomake their homes warmerand healthier.

“It is great to be meetingNICE’s recommendations inWiltshire,” said Erica Planer, asenior energy advisor at CSE.“What’s even better is

Single point of contactto support healthcarepatients in Wiltshire

Health and cold homes service

working together with thecouncil’s public health teamand implementing systemsthat will hopefully make cold-homes referrals an everydaypart of the role of health staffand other outreach workers.”

Funding for the first yearof CSE’s involvement hascome from the British GasEnergy Trust. Beyond this, wehope to continue to work inpartnership with the existingWarm and Safe energy adviceservice that is run inpartnership betweenWiltshire Council and Dorset& Wiltshire fire service.

All enquiries relating tocold homes support will bepicked up by either Erica, whois based in the council’s

PTrowbridge offices, a memberof the council’s own team, orone of our own energyadvisors in Bristol. Advice willbe available on home energyissues and the team can linkpeople with organisations forhelp with other issues likedebt or home safety.

Training health staffAnother focus of the projectis to meet the NICErecommendation which statesthat health professionals

ore small-mediumsized constructioncompanies in Bath and

North East Somerset areengaging with energy efficiency,thanks to an initiative deliveredby CSE in partnership with LowCarbon South West.

The one-year local authority-funded Trade Support Schemeoffered advice and subsidisedtraining to trades – electricians,builders, heating engineersetc – to help them expandinto the low carbon homeimprovements sector.

The scheme ended inAugust 2015 and asummary report is

available to download.It was run on behalf of

Energy at Home – a councilprogramme that CSE arepartners in delivery and which isstill going strong – thatpromotes energy efficiency tolocal households and has helped

grow the local market forlow carbon services.

However, as CSE’sJustin Lee-Gammageexplains, the market (andour scheme) was stronglyinfluenced by externalfactors. “We hit somesnags along the waywhen the governmentwithdrew funding for

Trade support scheme helpslocal construction companiesenter low-carbon market

The Trade Support Scheme helpedtradespeople such as heatingengineers expand into the low-carbon sector in and around Bath.

key areas of the Green Deal. Thiscreated uncertainty in themarket, and highlights theimportance of a long-termcommitment from governmentto energy efficiency retro-fitting.A sustained and well-resourcedapproach to supporting the SMEsupply chain is essential.”

In the course of the project,we learned some importantlessons, which are, in a nutshell:

1) Free training courses arestill difficult to fill.

2) You should focus onsupply chain improvements thatare not linked to short termschemes.

3) A better mechanism isneeded for encouragingbuilders, plumbers andelectricians to install energyefficiency measures.

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• Advised 89 firms – with59 going on to receivesubsidised training.

• Allocated grants for 130discounted trainingcourses.

For more details, seewww.cse.org.uk/news/view/2080

Above, CSE’s Paul Winney taking callsat our Bristol advice centre, and left,Erica Planer, a senior energy advisor atCSE, based in Trowbridge

should consider the warmth(or otherwise) of a patient’shome when they’redischarged from hospital. CSEhas been training health staffto spot patients who wouldbenefit from help and tomake referrals.

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Chief Executive Simon Roberts OBE

Household Energy Services Ian Preston Head of Household EnergyServices | Elizabeth Adams Intern |Paola Aldana Intern | Liz DaggerCaseworker | Shareen Elnagy Intern |Lisa Evans Project Manager | Louise EvansCaseworker | Justin Lee-GammageProject Officer | Kath Lindsay ProjectWorker | Michael McClelland SchemeManager | Cora Paine Senior EnergyAdvisor | Erica Planer Outreach Advisor |Sonia Pruzinsky Project Officer | Karen Smith Senior Energy Advisor |Kate Thomas Senior Project Manager |Mark Tyler Senior Energy Advisor |Jamie Walters Energy Advice ProjectManager | Lorna Wilcox Project Worker |Paul Winney Project Officer

Local & CommunityEmpowerment Rachel Coxcoon Head of Local &Community Empowerment | CaitlinBallard Project Worker | Heather CraneSenior Project Worker | Rachel HaycockProject Worker | Dan McGarvie ProjectWorker | Bridget Newbery SeniorCommunity Projects Manager | HarrietSansom Project Manager | Dan StoneProject Officer | James Watt ProjectManager | Anna Watts Lead Trainer

Research & Analysis Joshua Thumim Head of Research &Analysis | Molly Asher Project Worker | Dr Toby Bridgeman Researcher |Dr Tom Hinton Software Developer |Nicky Hodges Senior Researcher |Martin Holley Senior Technical ProjectManager | Annette Lamley ProjectOfficer | Glenn Searby SoftwareDeveloper | Richard Tiffin SeniorSoftware Developer

Development & CommunicationsJanine Michael Head of Development &Communications | Dr Nick Banks SeniorDevt Manager | Ruth Cole Senior DevtManager | Cat McLaughlin CommunicationsProject Worker | Phillip Morris SeniorDevt Manager | Jonathan Twomey SeniorDevt Manager | Tim WeisselbergCommunications & Publicity Manager

Finance & Human ResourcesSarah Frankish Head of Finance &Human Resources | Simone FarquharsonOffice Administrator | Julia Stephens-ParrFinancial Administrator

Board of Trustees Anne Obey(Chair) | Dr Brenda Boardman MBE |Peter Capener MBE | Ariane Crampton| Andrew Darnton | Peter Ellis | DrAndrew Garrad (on sabbatical) | Bill Hull| Prof Catherine Mitchell | Dr ChrisVernon | Kaye Welfare (Deputy Chair)

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CSE partners withBoilerJuice on fuelpoverty website

CSE wrote the content of aninteractive report on fuel povertyin the UK produced byBoilerJuice, the heating oil pricecomparison service.

The micro-site was commis-sioned by BoilerJuice to raiseawareness of their communityfundraising scheme that gener-ates money for local causesthrough donations made volun-tarily by customers when theybuy heating oil through the site.

BoilerJuice supports over 260local communities, donating 25pfor every 100 litres of heating oilordered by anyone in thefundraising group. Click here togo to the site: www.bit.ly/1Pe2gjv

270 kW community-owned hydro plantbegins generating

Anafon Hydro – one of thegroups we supported throughthe Community EnergyChallenge – began generatingclean, renewable electricity forthe community in this stun-ning area of the SnowdoniaNational Park. You can readmore about the project atwww.cse.org.uk/news/view/2071

The House of Commons Energyand Climate Change Committeeis seeking ideas for “disruptiveinnovations” in the energysector, including the potential oftechnology to transform marketstructures. It is asking for writtensubmissions, and also for 30second videos.

For CSE’s contribution to thesearch for a disruptive innovationsee https://youtu.be/faHhyCJkp6g.

Our proposed technologicalinnovation is ‘fully digital andvery cheap’, though too oftenignored by energy systemengineers and economists. It canalso be controlled ‘through thepower of thought via fullintegration with the human

nervous system’.We published the video on 1

April, but in many ways we’rebeing completely serious.

And joking aside, it is goodto see this kind of innovation bya House of Commons SelectCommittee, and CSE is hopingto make a further contribution todebate on transforming existingmarket structures soon.

Technology to transformthe energy system

“It’s time to give theenergy system the finger”