NIA SSEN 0043 Whole System Growth Scenario Modelling Phase 2

Key Activities

This project followed on from NIA_SSEN_0030 Whole-System Growth Scenario Modelling, which developed an initial modelling tool that demonstrated network impacts and informed possible investment decisions over a two-decade time period. The Phase 2 project intended to develop a method of deploying the modelling tool to enable Local Area Energy Planning.

Expected Benefits

The original project changed so significantly over its course (due to a change of platform provider), that it would be inappropriate to report against the original PEA objectives/benefits. The project is now complete and due to its success, we have moved it into a second phase called NIA_SSEN_0071_Regional Energy System Optimisation Planning (RESOP). The main benefit of WSGSM 2 was to demonstrate that it was possible to combine multiple geo-spatial data sets to help optimally locate low carbon technologies.

Progress

This project has now closed, and a second phase has started, called RESOP (NIA_SSEN_0071). WSGSM 2 proved that a combination of different data sets could be used to help optimally place low carbon technologies (e.g., electricity constraint data) alongside building data and socio-demographic data.