Smart Cities & Places

Towards a greener future for London The red bus is an iconic and integral part of London carrying over 6.5 million passengers a day. With so many commuters depending on your service, who do you trust with the complexities of energising your new fleet of electric buses?

SSE Enterprise has played a pivotal role in the deployment of London’s first large scale, zero-emission, single deck bus fleet – the largest of its kind in Europe. Providing the electrical infrastructure for the fleet’s charging points was a complex but vital component of this ground breaking initiative.

The prestigious Riverlight development enjoys spectacular views across the Thames. With 811 opulent residential properties and 3,850 square meters of commercial space, it’s a huge project with construction costs in excess of £200 million.

SSE Enterprise Utilities has worked with developers, St James, on the project for more than five years and has been involved in the design of all the site utilities: electricity, gas, water, waste and, significantly, a low-carbon heating and cooling system.

SSE Heat Networks Limited operates the Energy Centre and heat network for Elmsbrook, a pioneering zero carbon community in Bicester, Oxfordshire.

Elmsbrook is the flagship first phase of the North West Bicester eco town development led by residential property group A2Dominion. Once complete, Elmsbrook will feature 393 zero carbon homes, a primary school, local shop, eco pub and community centre. This revolutionary eco development is part of a wider ambition to create up to 6,000 new zero carbon properties for North West Bicester.

Partnership solutions for public sector organisations developing heat networks. We are seeking to co-invest in heat networks with public sector organisations, such as local authorities, hospitals and universities.

This means forming long term partnerships to develop, design, build, operate and look after customers. Partnerships bring the stability that reduces risk and provides the desired control to bring about lasting customer benefits.

On-site generation solutions for industrial and commercial businesses. For organisations dependent on power, heating or cooling to run core processes and seeking improved resilience, we provide funded solutions that deliver long-term, low cost, secure and sustainable energy.

We offer you partnership models where we can build, own, operate and maintain bespoke solutions. All this designed, financed and delivered by SSE.

Using Mayflower CMS, Amey have been better informed of road surface and air temperatures, optimising the decision-making process for winter gritting routes.

Mayflower currently monitors and manages over 155,000 street lights in Hampshire using its Central Management System (CMS). The CMS installation provides an opportunity for city managers to utilise the communications network to bring data from additional compatible sensors.

In April 2016, Amey approached Mayflower to discuss an alternative solution to the excessive gritting of the highways in Hampshire.

In the era of online reviews, guest comfort takes priority. Yet, while ‘front of house’ delivers business, what happens behind the scenes drives profitability. Here’s how the smart hotel operator can stop burning power, and start saving.

Try this simple sum. Let’s say a kilowatt (kWh) costs 10p and a hotel room costs £100 per night. How many rooms cover the cost of 1.5 million kWh?At SSE Enterprise, we make energy saving concepts as real as we can for our hotelier customers. Of course, no guest ever left a five star review of your heating, ventilation and air-conditioning system (HVAC) on a hotel rating website. And if no-one complains, all may seem well with your HVAC, which is why hotels often put ‘behind the scenes’ upgrades on the back boiler.

West Yorkshire was known as the beating heart of the industrial revolution.

Today the area is celebrated for its vibrant communities, abundant wildlife, and its rich and dramatic landscape.
To help preserve this beautiful area and its residents’ quality of life, we’ve been working with Calderdale Council to reduce carbon emissions and energy consumption for a variety of vital community services.

The first phase of the project demanded a broad range of high-level energy saving expertise. It began with expert analysis to find the best energy conservation measures that could be installed or upgraded across 14 separate buildings – ranging from a theatre, to a day centre, and a swimming pool.

Based in our Energy Management Centre (EMC), our experts will monitor, calibrate and then optimise your HVAC system.

This lets you both maximise your energy savings and still achieve the optimal environmental conditions that ensure all your people always feel comfortable. SSE Remote Optimal means that you are now able to control the energy management systems of your most diffuse, complex estates with much more finesse and precision to deliver tangible results.

Why choose us as your EPC partner?

SSE plc is one of Britain’s biggest and greenest energy businesses. We’re focused on providing energy reliably and securely. We’re also committed to innovating to make sure that energy is sustainable, clean and efficient. By decoupling energy efficiency from our customers’ capital constraints, our EPC solution helps us deliver on these commitments. That’s the big picture, but there are other reasons to make us your EPC partner.

The question is not ‘if’, the question is ‘how’

Whilst the warnings are stark that the world is on a non-sustainable path, a net-zero carbon target has been set.

However, targets alone do not drive progress.

SSE Enterprise’s core business is in energy and communications services, so we are best placed to guide you through your ‘smart energy journey’.