Regional or Local Area Energy Plans (LAEP)

Elevate Your Planning with IES' Digital Twins

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Helping Local Authorities Tackle Decarbonisation at Scale

IES’s range of Digital Twin modelling tools and consultancy solutions provide local authorities with the insight into how to decarbonise their entire energy system and building portfolio, at least cost against a net zero timeline, across electric, gas and heat sources.

Leveraging our physics-based simulation engine, our digital twins serve as a vital decision support tool to help local authorities decide what measures to implement and where, taking full consideration of the investment required and any social benefits. De-risking capital expenditure and removing the guesswork from your net-zero strategies.

Our Process for Developing a Plan

We can support you or your preferred partner when developing decarbonisation at scale plans and projects; leaving you with a digital asset that can be used to track progress to your targets and updated as your net-zero strategies evolve over time.

Develop an Accurate Baseline

Powered by our Apache simulation engine, our solutions go beyond typical GIS geospatial tools by providing an accurate simulation of the energy and carbon performance of all buildings (domestic and non-domestic) across your local area or region.

  • Simplified data collection, input from a wide range of sources
  • Calibrated with consumption information from output area data
  • Benchmark current operational energy and carbon emissions
  • Imported into a single Digital Twin to create a unified platform

Assess Potential Interventions at Scale

Responding as the real buildings would, our digital twins can be used to look at potential interventions at scale to improve building performance and ensure local and regional net-zero targets will be met. Visualised via a 3D spatial interactive map, specific interventions can be applied to specific buildings to determine where these are most effective.

  • Identify energy-efficient retrofit measures such as fabric upgrades
  • Decarbonise heat options through alternative measures like heat pumps
  • Simulate and test various options for additional energy generation
  • Determine areas where heat and electricity demands can be met through local resources and generation

Map Your Route to Net-Zero

Once potential interventions have been analysed, these can be developed into a decarbonisation roadmap for all assets. Prioritising where and when interventions will be most beneficial for reaching net-zero targets, goals can be set across a variety of timescales, with precise metrics for future monitoring.

  • Identify quick wins which can fund future decarbonisation measures
  • Design supportive legislation and policies around intervention implementation
  • Combine the Digital Twin with socio-economic factors such as ROI, fuel poverty or property values
  • Track progress and update roadmap as technology evolves and strategies shift

Communicate Net-Zero Progress

Accessible on the cloud, the Digital Twin acts as a central repository to provide an overview of all assets across your locality – whether corporate, industrial or domestic. Upon completion of the project, we hand over ownership of the Digital Twin, allowing you to monitor progress and update the plan over time to give you control over your net-zero plans.  

  • Engage both stakeholders and community members to ensure everyone is aligned and informed
  • Provides detail to build strategic outline business cases for future decarbonisation
  • Allows scaling up of opportunities for investment and funding
  • Significant cost saving from not requiring future rounds of procurement

Our Plans in Action

Any Questions?

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