Optimisation of on-site renewable energy for EV fleet charging at council depots
KTN is supporting the Cardiff Capital Region (CCR) to identify innovative solutions for significant and immediate challenges in support of the CCR City Deal. CCR are looking for innovative deployment technology to enable zero emission council fleets. Through this IX challenge, optimisation of on-site renewable energy for EV fleet charging at council depots, CCR are looking for technology providers who can offer solutions for deployment at TRL5 and above. Any solutions should be scalable and be applicable to other Local Authorities in the region.
Opportunity
Challenge opens
19/10/2021
Challenge closes
06/12/2021
Benefit
Opportunity to present solution at a pitch day attended by representatives of the participating Local Authorities and the CCR. Potential access to innovation deployment through the CCR Challenge Fund Programme.
Introduction
Ten local authorities within the Cardiff City Region program have committed to explore solutions that will enable zero-emission council owned fleets and to create demonstrable innovation projects that will help proliferate mass deployment. At a workshop this summer several challenges and opportunities that this KTN iX™ set of challenges will address were identified.
One such example is Merthyr Tydfil County Borough who have a fleet of approximately 140 vehicles with a mix of cars, vans, and HGVs. They have a requirement for all their cars and vans to be zero emission by 2025 and 2030 for HGVs. The fleet is split across several sites but mainly kept at two locations (both back to base) with 30 and 70 vehicles respectively. The larger site has 70kW of Solar which is split across two buildings.
With this ambitious strategy a number of chargepoints are currently being procured now for installation in early 2022 as well as Electric vehicles such as Nissan ENV200s and Merthyr are in the process of upgrading their grid connection to 1 MW with an onsite substation.
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