GreenSCIES – Green Smart Community Integrated Energy Systems – Integration with Data Centres

The GreenSCIES project aims to deliver low carbon, affordable energy through a novel smart energy system that connects flexible electricity demands such as heat pumps and electric vehicles to intermittent renewable energy sources such as solar power. This paper presents the results of the feasibility study of a 5th generation district mobility, power and heat network in the London Borough of Islington.The smart network facilitates the transition to electric vehicles and vehicle-to-grid supply to make the mostof intermittent renewable energy and ensure end-users always get the best tariff. Heating and cooling are provided by heat pumps in buildings connected to a local network, which integrates thermal energy storage and waste heat recovered from local datacentres. Artificial intelligence underpins the system optimisation and demand side response. Low carbon heating and cooling is achieved by sharing heat between buildings and by shifting the timing of their demand to off-peak cheaper electricity; this require