Paul Tilsley and Sandy Taylor - Low Carbon Living in the Birmingham Smart Home


Birmingham City Council

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Birmingham Briefing

Councillor Paul TilsleyDeputy Leader Birmingham City Council


Brief Description of Birmingham

Birmingham is the largest UK City outside of London

A city of 1 million people

Almost 30% of its population comes from 150 nationalities

Birmingham is the capital of the West Midlands region, with over 20% of regional GDP


Brief Description of Birmingham

Business and Professional Services, Technology (manufacturing and digital) and Exhibition and Conference Services are the main productive sectors

Birmingham lies at the heart of the UK rail network with 36 million passengers a year.

Over 26 million visitors to the NEC and Convention Centre

Over 160,000 students in our Universities

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Initiatives Around Sustainability



Introduction of new Combined Heat and Power networks in the City – City Centre schemes saving up to 15,000 tonnes CO2 by

Host to UK National Energy Technology Institute and European BioEnergy Research Institute

Birmingham “Sustainable Procurement Compact”



Energy from Waste plant producing 25Mw of electricity and saving 75,000 tonnes CO2

New Wholesale Markets to incorporate bioenergy capture

New City Centre Master Plan – “The Big City Plan” puts sustainability at the heart of new development

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Birmingham CUD Focus


“Achieving this will require major change in behaviours amongst domestic users of energy. This will require information on domestic energy consumption and management to be made significantly more transparent to the consumer. And will also require more intelligent information about transport choices to be instantly available”


Birmingham CUD Focus

“Low Carbon Living in the Smart Home”


Low Carbon Living in the Smart HomeThe Prototype Home for the CUD project – Birmingham Home

Big City Plan supported

Birmingham Science City supported

Digital Birmingham supported

Prototypes for development

(i) domestic energy interactive communication device

(ii) local transport choices for intelligent homeworking

Paul Tilsley and Sandy Taylor - Low Carbon Living in the Birmingham Smart Home

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