Making low carbon homes attractive for households and developers

There is a significant market failure to decarbonise domestic energy demand at the pace required to meet the government’s legally binding carbon budgets - and society’s objectives.

Consumers are finding energy efficiency and low carbon technologies too costly, complex and they lack confidence in the local supply chain: there is not a whole product solution so they don’t engage.

We plan Neighbourhood Energy Systems that have the potential to address these issues by tackling them collectively with a systematic, integrated, operational approach that puts the consumer first.

Our goals

  • The UK government’s target is to build 1.5m new all-electric homes by 2030.

    However, low carbon homes are both expensive to build and hard to finance.

    Turn-key neighbourhood energy systems can deliver lower costs, are simple to operate and reduce carbon emissions.

  • Grid congestion, resulting in connection queues, is delaying construction and making some sites untenable.

    Pooling local flexibility to keep peak loads within current constraints enables connections to be made in advance of grid strengthening.

    It also can bring untenable development land back into use.

  • Technical solutions and operational benefits have been demonstrated: e.g. private wire micro grids. However, fully commercialising them to enable scale developments has not. Hence, major implementation is a commercial not a technical problem.

    The Traxis Group’s raison d’être is to develop collaborative business models that support a whole product solution, enables wide-scale consumer adoption and stimulates the transition from early adoption to a mass market.

 

Managing peak demand behind the substation achieves these goals enabling connection before the upstream grid has been sufficiently strengthened. It also reduces the cost of energy to the end user. The deployment of Neighbourhood Energy Systems could be instrumental to the effective decarbonisation of local energy demand.

Our services:

  • Creation of new consumer focused revenue models for the installation and operation of shared local energy systems

  • Dynamic Load Averaging (DLA) planning and grid impact analysis helping developers specify and optimise energy assets in and around new developments

  • Providing an AI enabled federated environment for DLA service operations and interactions with Virtual Lead Parties/Flexibility Service Providers

  • Assistance in tackling the place-based energy burden of financing and planning of net zero and accelerated development targets

  • Active Business Performance Management maximising, proving and communicating the energy efficiency and carbon accounting

  • Supporting the development of financial structures to attract private capital by providing expert commercial advice to investment funds

 

Neighbourhood energy entails extended value chains too large for any one business to manage within their own supply chain: e.g. DSOs, Energy Retailers, Property Developers, Infrastructure Providers etc. Companies need to collaborate with each other to co-develop whole products, integrate their capabilities and win investment for complete solutions. This is what The Traxis Group enables.

The Local Area Markets Alliance (LEMA)

In 2024, along with Gemserv, The Traxis Group formed LEMA as an open, collaborative, industry initiative to bring stakeholders together to create and endorse new market mechanisms needed to create a Transition Market.

Together we aim to generate multiple ‘Transition Projects’ that will develop long-term Neighbourhood Energy Systems as vital grid-edge infrastructures that tackle the decarbonisation of energy demand, create local growth and resilience and a sense of community ownership.