Reports and publications

Project LEO Final Report: a digest of key learnings. March 2023 saw the end of Project LEO, one of the UK’s most ambitious, wide-ranging and innovative energy trials. Over the four years since its launch, this collaborative project has conducted multiple trials, issued numerous reports and gained vital insight into how a smart and flexible…

People’s Power Station 2.0: Developing a digital environment that creates value through Smart Community Energy Systems This report documents the ongoing development of the People’s Power Station 2.0(PPS2.0), a highly innovative digital environment that acts as an enabler for bothcreating and capturing value through a focus on Smart Community EnergySystems (SCES). The approach taken is…

At its heart, Project LEO has been as much about social innovation and equity as technical learning, particularly in relation to our Smart and Fair Neighbourhoods (SFN). So it was vital that participants in these trials and the communities involved were managed and treated respectfully and ethically.

Project LEO Baselining Working Group Summary Report This report aims to summarise the discussion and learnings relating to baselining that arose throughout the real-world trials carried out as part of Project LEO and TRANSITION. These trials ran between November 2021 and February 2023. The work includes an analysis of the accuracy of the methods used,…

Residential Demand Side Response: An Aggregator’s Report on Local Flexibility Project LEO partner equiwatt have authored a robust and informative report on the lessons learned from recruiting and trialing for flexibility across Oxfordshire. “In producing this report, we have developed consumer insights based on the recruitment channels used, the recruitment outcomes, conducted a survey of…

Learning from the Smart and Fair Neighbourhood Trials “This paper reports on the learning we have actually achieved through the hyperlocal SFN trials, sets out the key messages from our learning and describes further work we would like to do to bring the concept to market through viable, valuable, ethical, repeatable and scalable business models.…

Annual Interviews with Project Partners, Year 4 This report presents findings from the fourth annual interviews conducted with project partners as part of Work Pack 6, focussing on key themes that emerged during these interviews, including: • Sources of transaction costs for different actors in SLES and approaches to reduce them• Learnings about co-creation activities…

Barriers and opportunities for stakeholder engagement Project LEO has produced a series of Barriers and Opportunities Reports throughout the project. This short report focusses on barriers and opportunities to stakeholder engagement within Project LEO. It is based interviews with project partners on this topic, together with information synthesised from other reports. The report highlights 10…

Summary Report of the flexibility assessments undertaken on Oxford City Council leisure buildings This report draws out and interprets what was learned from the experience of assessing flexibility (rather than giving technical details and specific information about Council assets, except where relevant to the learning. The technical detail has been provided by Consortio Ltd to…

Net Zero Rose Hill Local Roadmap Report This report focuses just on the key question of developing a local roadmap for Rose Hill. It does not set out to provide an evaluation of the whole SFN. This report is split into several sections. Firstly, it sets out the approach taken through Project LEO to the…

Project LEO and TRANSITION Market Trials Report (Period 2) This report focuses on TP2 (Trial Period 2), building on the learnings from TP13 and informing the future scope of TP3 (the final trial period of the project). TP1 focused on mobilising the technology, markets and recruiting market participants. Through TP2, the focus has been increasing…

Creating Superpowers: Capable Communities in Smart Local Energy Systems This report was submitted by Dr. Nicholas Banks as part of 2022’s European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy conference on the topic of “community Level Capabilities in smart local energy systems”.