Case study - The Electric Freightway to community microgrids
20 Nov 2024
Case Study
Built Environment and Transport Theatre
Fleet and site decarbonisation requires transformation and new partnerships across whole value chains. It is important to understand the challenges to achieving Net Zero and how to practically mitigate them by exploring technology and wider thinking and their impact on other systems that could be integrated into those outcomes.
- Electric Freightway - a diverse consortium with a common goal.
- What if we can't get wind and solar or a bigger grid connection for a depot site? (SMART Charging - fleet and energy operations).
- What if there is no capacity in the near term from the DNO? (What we can do behind the meter by adding in solar, maybe wind and BESS to have more power and be greener).
- If we want more capacity from the DNO - how do we get to the front of the queue when GRID connections are a scarce resource? (Flexibility, curtailable connections, fleet impacts and depots operations, offer 'flexibility’ services).
- Business park tenants all trying to negotiate their own grid connections. (Local business park and community microgrids, pool capacity, pool generation, make better use of available resources, take more of an Energy Cooperative approach, address the DNO as a group rather than individuals).