Soft Market Test for the appointment of a Delivery Partner to deliver the Peterborough Integrated Renewables Infrastructure (PIRI) Project

Description

Peterborough City Council (the Council) recognises that the adverse impact of climate change is significant, and that urgent action needs to be taken. The Council has therefore committed to ambitious decarbonisation targets, including taking action to make the Council’s activities net zero by 2030 and to help Peterborough become a net-zero carbon city by the same year. The Peterborough Integrated Renewables Infrastructure (PIRI) project is a pivotal step for the Council to achieve its ambitions. The project started in 2019 with an initial heat mapping and masterplan study, which demonstrated the significant benefits of establishing a network that would utilise Peterborough’s Energy Recovery Facility (PERF) to deliver low carbon heat and electrical power to businesses and showed how it could be viable. The project scope includes both a heat and power network and EV charging provision. The following objectives for the PIRI project have been agreed by the Council: • Support the net zero ambitions for the Council and the City by significantly reducing carbon emissions through PIRI activity. • Provide an ongoing viable delivery model for the heat and power networks, for which the Council’s contribution is limited to: i) the identified capital contribution of £13.5m GHNF funding ii) the heat produced by the PERF, subject to compliance with the subsidy control regime iii) the provision of electricity, at a price to be agreed between the Council and its PIRI partner Keywords: energy supply, heat and power , EV Charging, renewable energy infrastructure