{"id":4992,"date":"2021-09-22T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=4992"},"modified":"2021-09-22T20:16:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T19:16:17","slug":"energy-systems-catapult-living-lab-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=4992","title":{"rendered":"Energy Systems Catapult &#8216;Living Lab&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The UK Government funds a series of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/catapult.org.uk\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/catapult.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Catapult<\/a> research centres. One of these is the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/es.catapult.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Energy Systems Catapult<\/a> which undertakes a wide range of energy-related research projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the ES Catapult initiatives is the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/es.catapult.org.uk\/brochures\/living-lab-a-national-asset-for-home-energy-innovation\/\" target=\"_blank\">Living Lab <\/a>&#8211; several hundred real-life properties that have expressed an interest in hosting energy-related trials. I signed up Marsh Flatts Farm a few weeks ago and there will be an air quality monitoring trial starting soon (will post on that separately).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From what I&#8217;ve seen so far, equipment or software vendors typically use the lab to test innovative solutions and get real-world feedback before launching products on the UK market. Trial participants get a small financial incentive to test-install products, complete surveys and provide feedback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s a particular interest in homes that have heat pumps, solar panels, batteries and electric car chargers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More information and a sign-up link is <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livinglab.energy\/home\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Government funds a series of Catapult research centres. One of these is the Energy Systems Catapult which undertakes a wide range of energy-related research projects. One of the ES Catapult initiatives is the Living Lab &#8211; several hundred &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=4992\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-lab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4992"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4996,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4992\/revisions\/4996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}