Advanced Infrastructure provides spatial analytics and digital twins for the energy transition, helping housing associations, developers, local authorities, distribution network operators and consultants plan the rollout of low carbon technologies, as well as manage and model the carbon impact of their building portfolios.
What we do
LAEP+
LAEP+ is a cloud based net zero planning tool developed to streamline Local Area Energy Planning and accelerate the deployment of low carbon technologies. LAEP+ uses digital twins to plan region-wide energy transitions by providing local authorities, planners, DNOs, and consultants with granular heat, building, transport and energy data alongside net zero modelling tools to support informed decision making.
LAEP+ is currently being used across 200 towns and cities in the UK to manage Local Area Energy Plans, respond to grants, and identify and triage sites suitable for low carbon technologies such as heat pumps and electric vehicle charge points.
Advanced Infrastructure's LAEP+ platform and building stock data has been created to enable the shortlisting and triaging of buildings for different low carbon energy interventions based on criteria such as grid constraints, PV suitability, insulation, network capacity, deprivation indices and household income. LAEP+ building datasets include demand profiles, building fabric and desktop assessments of heat pump and PV suitability linked to UPRNs and addresses.
Datasets
Discover data driven decision making with granular datasets across heat, energy, building stock and transport, to identify optimum locations and accelerate low-carbon technology deployment. Developed for diverse energy planning needs with meticulous data curation and cross-validation.
Our datasets can be combined with our cloud based net zero planning tool LAEP+ (Local Area Energy Planner Plus), or as stand alone datasets available as an API or exportable file format.
What we can help you with
As the UK decarbonises, millions of buildings need to decarbonise and hundreds of smart new housing developments need to connect to the grid. Identifying, planning and modelling the impact of new and existing buildings on electricity grid constraints, energy efficiency and carbon is an on-going challenge.
Grid constraints mean low carbon power is often not available where and when the power is needed and access to building data that provides evidence based energy interventions is not readily available to the likes of Housing Associations, Local Authorities and Distribution Network Operators.
Our solution
Advanced Infrastructure build, source and clean data to provide on-demand datasets which are crucial for optimising the placement, operation and business case for net zero energy interventions at city-scale or building level. Our on demand datasets include building level, socio-demographic, energy demand, transport and mobility, carbon emission factors data, grid constraints and more.
The data can be purchased as stand alone or combined with our LAEP+ software service: a cloud-based geospatial platform used to analyse the suitability of different sites for low carbon energy interventions.
Benefits of working with us
Removing the need for costly consultancies to source data to evidence the suitability of low carbon energy efficiencies and measure carbon emission factors on behalf of housing associations, the on demand datasets and net zero local area planning tools enable in house access to live, reliable, and on demand data.
Case study
Dundee City Council used the LAEP+ platform to develop their bid for the Scottish Public Sector Heat Decarbonisation Scheme evidencing the potential for low carbon heat sources in the region. To support analysis of heating potential the local authority used the LAEP+ to produced desktop assessments of building-level suitability for domestic heat pumps.
Dundee City Council were able to explore a council-wide building-level digital twin through the LAEP+ tool. Building materials, glazing areas, heat demand and many other building-stocks information was able to be analysed using easy-to-use and powerful tools. Dundee City Council will use the LAEP+ to develop and share their Local Heat and Energy Efficiency Strategy (LHEES) with a wider group of stakeholders using digital engagement tools.
Barbara Whiting, Sustainability and Climate Change Manager at Dundee City Council said: “Dundee is navigating a challenging Net Zero Transition, and the ability to visualise outputs such as our Local Heat Energy Efficiency Strategy (LHEES) in the tool is instrumental to our decarbonisation journey. Spatial Net Zero planning is typically difficult, but the easy-to-use platform has been critical for the council and empowers us to make informed decisions. To take our heat decarbonisation planning to the next level, we have also partnered with Advanced Infrastructure to model a series of non-domestic datasets which explore the baseline consumption and potential for low-carbon technologies, to help define an outline Heat Decarbonisation Plan.”