Delivering a Digital Twin for the North Northamptonshire region to optimise a roadmap for achieving Net Zero

The Innovation Exchange programme is working alongside Electric Corby Community Interest Company, on a Community Renewal Funded approach for North Northamptonshire Council, to develop a roadmap options programme, on how to get the region to net zero. This project is looking to engage innovators and innovative companies that can help them solve a significant challenge they are trying to overcome in relation to meeting Net Zero targets within the region. This challenge is aimed at finding innovative digital twin providers that can best digitally represent the region and offer a visual route to help in identifying the optimal projects and locations to deliver Net Zero solutions.

Opportunity

Challenge opens

31/03/2022

Challenge closes

03/05/2022

Benefit

Successful applicants will have the opportunity to present the digital twin model and findings to the local authority and potentially work with the project partners to pitch for further funding to support the modelling and delivery of the high priority low carbon initiatives.

Background

Corby and North Northamptonshire are a mixture of industrial towns and small rural villages, the region is a desirable area for manufacturing and warehousing and includes some large storage areas with easy access to the motorway network to travel across the UK. The towns have good shopping facilities which cater for residents within the towns and surrounding rural locale. This brings many challenges for delivering Net Zero within the region; larger vehicles will potentially need sources for alternative fuels or e-charging combined with larger consumptions of electricity and additional internal network needs that will require chargers for both residents, service vehicles and public transport.  Many villages have traditional stone houses and classic brick style buildings through to modern estates with up to date housing standards which will all need to be transitioned towards a net zero carbon future and the region must ensure there is both the facilities, infrastructure and grid capacity to be able to achieve this.

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