Energy Transition and Renewables
To meet net zero goals, it is crucial that we achieve society-scale energy transition as quickly as possible towards decarbonisation by optimising production, distribution, transmission, use and storage across critical power infrastructure. smart net zero has partnered with global resources, data specialists and interdisciplinary skill sets to identify the right transition approach whether it involves wind, solar, hydrogen or nuclear; we have the knowledge all under one roof.
What problem are we addressing?
Number one challenge typically is economic with the levels of investments needed but with the uncertain payback periods on renewable energy investments. However, there are also technical challenges in how you retrofit or upgrade complex systems and environments when adopting renewables as well as issues with areas like grid capacity or energy storage.
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Skilled workforces and culture change challenges also exist in developing energy literacy on understanding the energy options best suited for you and how you will continue to resource it.
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There are some sector-specific challenges as well such as operational constraints in ensuring availability, safety and reliability of the solutions are paramount.
Delivering the solution
Our approach to overcoming the challenges has collaboration at its heart to help facilitate a smoother transition across an organisation and/or region. We provide strong policy support to help build up the necessary business case and ROI using our own models. Our focus is on leveraging innovation with a data-centric approach to deliver our solutions whilst maximising on the opportunities available and mitigating against the known technical limitations.
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Finally, we are very strong on education and engagement to help not only raise awareness of the benefits and suitable energy options available for your scenario but also to help drive cultural change and embed skills through our smart infrastructure engineering pathways.
Our services to you
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Solar energy consultancy - providing end-to-end project support on the feasibility/yield assessments, regulatory obligations, grid connection and environmental planning advice.
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Wind energy solutions - through partners a portfolio of onshore and offshore wind turbine power solutions supported by leading edge renewable energy infrastructure planning and design.
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Hydrogen consultancy - our partners provide over 100+ hydrogen energy consultants to help you meet the demands of areas like the distribution and storage of hydrogen.
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Nuclear consultancy - from generation, storage, distribution and waste management consultancy to environmental impact advisory, buildings design and transportation engineering, we can seamlessly collaborate with all nuclear energy infrastructure stakeholders.
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District heating solutions - our supporting consultants can cover initial energy mapping and master planning for district heating schemes, through to technical feasibility, design, implementation, maintenance, and network optimisation.
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Carbon management - applying our carbon management expertise to projects, organisations, local authorities and cities to help reduce carbon efficiently and plan for a net zero carbon future.
Driving climate action
Insight Leadership
In driving through leadership, we will go beyond simply enabling carbon reduction in our projects but demonstrate how this is happening.
To do this, we will look to raise industry awareness and make resilient carbon reduction a contractual standard across the supply chain, by providing thought leadership as well as practical direction and supporting assurance certifications. Our Sustainability leads will play a key role in this endeavour.
Carbon Collaboration
Through a programme of continuous carbon management, including the introduction of enhanced digital techniques, we can highlight new opportunities for carbon reduction to clients.
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A part of this is also our ability to help clients meet the challenges in their supply chain, through procurement mechanisms that require carbon reduction and encourage innovation. We ensure that focus is maintained on carbon impacts throughout project lifecycle, and post-completion.
Digital Transformation
The heart of what we do is data. We are constantly developing new digital techniques and methods to help transform carbon projects and impact design decision making. This helps to build awareness among clients, engineers, and key stakeholders.
Our developments in artificial intelligence are set to automatically optimise carbon and associated costs in the near future but we only do so in a secure and resilient manner to protect all assets involved.
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