Area energy planning
Arup is helping local government plan for a new energy future, undertaking in-depth Local Area Energy Planning (LAEP) to support clients who want to achieve a resilient, comprehensive energy transition.
Combining our data driven approach with our extensive experience, we perform full system decarbonisation modelling, including generation, transmission, distribution, consumption and storage across electricity, heat, gas and hydrogen networks.
We engage stakeholders and identify opportunities for new infrastructure, systems and processes. Our approach establishes, initiates and manages baseline emissions, while defining net zero strategies, roadmaps and targets across all assets and portfolios:
- Gas, hydrogen, heating, cooling and electricity networks
- Renewables and low-carbon energy resources
- Local energy generation and storage
- The residential and non-domestic built environment
- Energy for industry and agriculture
- Energy for transport
We focus on delivering an implementable decarbonisation strategy, including assessing new policies, innovative business models, technology development, training and cultural programmes needed to prepare clients for their decarbonisation journey.
Engagement and support
LAEP is far more effective, producing better outcomes for local people, when everyone involved contributes to the process. We believe in including crucial stakeholders throughout the process – such as gas and electricity distribution network operators, transport authorities, housing associations and local businesses –
We also help local stakeholders to understand their future energy plans thoroughly, identify how they will be delivered (including how to develop strong business cases to secure the right investments) and build skills within a group of people in their organisation who can lead them forward. Through our work, we help you plan for the future, cutting costs, increasing energy efficiency and negating energy poverty.
Through our work, we help you plan for the future, cutting costs, increasing energy efficiency and negating energy poverty.
Rotterdam is looking to accelerate its transition to becoming an emission-free city. Together with DRIFT, the sustainability research institute at Rotterdam’s Erasmus University, Arup provided an overview of the challenges and opportunities that the city, which hosts Europe’s largest port, faces as it transitions to become carbon neutral by the 2050 Paris Agreement deadline. The New Energy for Rotterdam report, the result of the Pathways to Paris project, addresses some of the pressing issues facing cities going green.
The report is the first calculated roadmap for a carbon neutral city in the Netherlands. The two pathways charted by Arup form the basis for the Municipality Coalition Agreements, and are an inspiring example for other cities to reach their climate goals. Arup also works with the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40), of which Rotterdam holds membership.
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Early-stage advice on the foundation design for a Scotland offshore substation
Stoura Offshore Wind Farm, UK
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Project Thor, Denmark
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Biomethane Initiatives JV – Noez Plant, Spain
First hillside solar plant in the Philippines
Cayanga Hillside Solar Farm, Philippines
Integrated energy systems
Arup is working with clients to design and develop resilient, integrated energy systems that guarantee energy security for the billions that depend on them.