This post forms part of the SDG series at Scene Connect, contributing to Global Goals Week in which governments, businesses, and civil society representatives gather at the UN Headquarters in New York for the Sustainable Development Summit 2019.
In this short blog series, we reflect on how our own projects support the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, and we explore what community energy, renewable energy, and energy innovation might look like in the bright future which we are working to help build.
This post forms part of the SDG series at Scene Connect, contributing to Global Goals Week in which governments, businesses, and civil society representatives gather at the UN Headquarters in New York for the Sustainable Development Summit 2019.
In this short blog series, we reflect on how our own projects support the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, and we explore what community energy, renewable energy, and energy innovation might look like in the bright future which we are working to help build.
Scene is delighted to have been selected as a finalist of the Power Forward Challenge, a UK and Canada collaboration to ‘challenge Canadian and U.K. companies to design better power grids, connecting our nations to clean, user-friendly grids and helping to prevent power outages.’ Scene has been innovating within the energy system since 2011 and is pleased to bring its emphasis on local energy to this competition.
Scene Connect are looking for a full-time embedded software engineer to join the team, building Internet of Things solutions that help to provide renewable energy in the developing world. You would be part of a small team designing, building and maintaining firmware and software for a product suite aimed at African and South Asian markets.
REFRUIT (Resource Efficient Farming by Renewable Ugandan Irrigation Technology) addresses the barriers to irrigation uptake in Uganda and aims to deliver a technical solution and commercial strategy to improve productivity and livelihoods in the country.
Administration & Communications Office
Start date in May 2019;
Office in Islington (London) or Edinburgh if strongly preferred;
Permanent contract;
Full-time position (part-time is possible but no less than 4 days per week);
Salary £22k-£25k FTE depending on experience;
Package of benefits including flexible working, 33 days holiday, pension.
We are delighted to announce that we’ve been awarded grant support through the Energy Catalyst programme run by Innovate UK and funded by The Department for International Development (DFID) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The project will allow us to deploy commercial trials for our new product, “EMBLEM”, in Rwanda and Nepal.
Started in Scotland way back in 2012 – with support from The University of Edinburgh among others – Energy Archipelago begun as an ambitious attempt to plug the data gap in community energy. Having attempted to create a global partnership around the platform – to make the community energy movement more visible – we have ultimately decided that the project is too big for a small organisation like ours. It is with sadness that we will be retiring the platform very soon.
Scene Connect has worked closely with a community-led charity, Iona Renewables, on the island of Iona (Scotland) to secure £1.65M funding for a community-owned, low carbon and affordable heating system connecting island homes, school and businesses.
In a UK first, the island community of Iona, Scotland, will get green heating - through the collaborative efforts of local charity Iona Renewables and Scotland-based social enterprise Scene Connect.. The development of this innovative heat network will be the first step towards the island’s energy transition from imported, fossil fuel energy sources, to local renewable energy generation, storage and use.
In beautiful Lisbon in early May, over 700 delegates come together from all corners of the globe to discuss and learn about collective progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 7, and to plan ahead. SDG7 is to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all; a heady goal which we only have 12 years left to reach.
