SFHA Associate wins Big Award

Alistair Roberts, Community Renewables Manager at iPower, won the judges’ prize on day one of Utility Week Live 2019 at the EIC’s Big Energy Pitch, for iPower’s innovative proposition.

The Big Energy Pitch is a Dragon’s Den-style event that gives SMEs the opportunity to demonstrate new ideas and technologies in front of a panel of industry experts, gaining exposure and receiving invaluable feedback on their latest innovations.

Alistair commented: “Our innovation is the implementation of a Virtual Power Plant structured on our social energy service company (esco) basis.

“Our social esco model provides funded low carbon solutions at no upfront cost to the building owner, based on the provision of energy services to the building. The main function of the business model is to allow for real involvement from local stakeholders in the production, transfer and storage of power, decentralising power in an economic and physical sense.”