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CivTech 07

September 2022 - ongoing

ONECan Energy Club

September 2021 - ongoing

Isle of Canna

February 2021 - ongoing

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We’re working with South of Scotland Enterprise and the CivTech programme on the challenge of how to help people understand their energy needs and connect with local suppliers to address those needs.

ZUoS is helping the community development trust in Carluke to develop an energy club for sharing energy across different buildings. This includes an innovation collaboration with Scottish Power Energy Networks to unlock the community potential.

ZUoS Simulations was initially used to model Canna’s renewably powered private micro-grid to advise the island on how to continue decarbonising. Since then, ZUoS Operations has been monitoring island energy flows and trialling the use of excess renewable generation for domestic hot water.

26 for COP 26

June 2021 - November 2021

ZUoS has been selected as one of 26 climate innovators to participate in a 6 month program from Greenbackers Investment Capital to help promising cleantech start-ups secure investment from international investors.

ZUoS is incorporated

30th June 2021

ZUoS incorporates as a separate company, following 3 years of development by the three founding companies Scene Connect, Locogen and Mentone Energy.

Power Forward Challenge

Match 2019 - September 2021

The Power Forward Challenge is an international collaboration between the UK and Canada to design the energy system of the future. The ZUoS consortium secured SME support to help prepare a proposal to this call, which provided the resources to enable us to prepare a winning proposal, helped in no small part by Cloud ZUoS presenting the winning pitch at the Rushlight Summer Showcase (June 2019).

Unreasonable

March 2021 - April 2021

Unreasonable partnered with the Shell Startup Engine UK in delivering this intensive 4-week accelerator. ZUoS’ pilot lead was selected to participate, alongside 9 of the other most-exciting scale-ups in the UK energy space.

Huntly Pilot trials

January 2020 - Ongoing

Pilot trials for the Power Forward Challenge have been ongoing from January 2020. Due to COVID-19, there was no specific start-date, with assets coming on line following installs - interrupted by periods of lockdown before further installs could be completed. The full trial has been live since May 2021.

Perth and Kinross

December 2019 - Ongoing

The ZUoS consortium was selected through a highly competitive innovation call for Phase 1 to develop and pitch its idea for delivering the Perth ‘Smart Energy Network’ for the Council - to drive down carbon, costs and increase the deployment of low-carbon technologies. ZUoS is one of two innovators invited to now demonstrate its concept through a project pilot - linked to one school and one Council building.

Michelin Scotland Innovation Parc

November 2020 - March 2021

Michelin Sustainable Innovation Parc invited ZUoS as one of its inaugural cohorts for its accelerator programme. It all started with a 60-second elevator pitch and culminated in an 8-minute presentation at the event showcase, with 4 intensive months of mentoring in between!

Rhondda Cynon Taf

February 2021 - April 2021

Rhonda Cynon Taf County Borough Council, as part of the Welsh Government’s Smart Living programme, invited concept proposals for “decarbonising assets and developing innovative multi vector energy model solutions to achieve Net Zero outcomes”. ZUoS were invited to develop their demonstrator proposal to deploy its intelligent control system to model robust local energy system scenarios and test new business delivery models for energy deployments. Phase 2 is currently on-hold.

Energy Systems Catapult

September 2019 - February 2020

ZUoS’ lead partner was selected for the Energy Systems Catapult’s Energy Launchpad to provide scale-up support in specific areas around the development of the ZUoS platform and the planning and execution of the Huntly Pilot trials.