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NEA SOUTH WEST FUEL POVERTY FORUM
Louise Evans Project Development Coordinator
NATIONAL ENERGY ACTION
Agenda 11.00 am Welcome & NEA Policy Update Louise Evans 11.30 am Plymouth Energy Community – projects update Helen Griffin Plymouth Energy Community 11.50 am How can community renewables support local Jake Burnyeat energy and fuel poverty programs Director Communities for Renewables 12:10 pm ECO 2.0t update Danni Crosland
Programme Account Manager NEA
12.40 pm Lunch Break and Networking 1.30 pm The Chariot Project: using sensor Nick Banks data in energy advice Senior Development Manager CSE 2.00 pm Smart metering for health and social care Jonathan Burr CEO
Intellisant 2:30 pm Summary & Close
NEA POLICY UPDATE
Louise Evans Project Development Coordinator
NATIONAL ENERGY ACTION
Contents • Warm Homes Campaign • ECO transition published • PPM cap and vulnerability principle confirmed • Bonfield Review • RHI response • Fuel Poverty Action Plan for London • Digital Economy Bill • Prospectus for Universal Affordable Warmth • Engagement with NIC • HECA reports due • GDN paper • Further consultations and key priorities
Warm Homes Campaign
• Launched 29th November 2016 and finished on Fuel Poverty Awareness Day (17th February)
• Substantial press coverage including The Guardian, The Mirror, the Daily Mail Online, and the Yorkshire Evening Post
• Support of Dave Johns (lead actor from I, Daniel Blake) and Harry Leslie Smith, a WW2 veteran and campaigner
…..cont.
• New materials released to help support frontline workers to tackle fuel poverty at local level (see www.nea.org.uk/advice) • A number of events took place funded through Warm
Homes Campaign award scheme • 35+MP’s are backed campaign and signed pledge cards • On Twitter there were at least 100 tweets on the campaign,
with a reach of 231,000 on Fuel Poverty Awareness Day For more info http://www.nea.org.uk/campaigns-policy/warm-homes- campaign/ or email [email protected]
ECO2 transition published
• NEA consulted supporters extensively • Key policy decision was to extend transition to 18 months
- now runs from April 2017 – Sept 2018 • NEA analysis estimates extension created shortfall of
around £0.9 billion in lifetime savings for fuel poor households
• This gap is equivalent to around 59,000 first time gas central heating systems
ECO 2t other key announcements -
• Introducing rural sub-obligation of 15% under CERO, to safeguard delivery in rural (including off-gas) areas.
• Affordable Warmth Group - increased to around 4.7m eligible
households rather than 4m (in consultation) households. • Now includes social housing tenants living in least energy
efficient properties (EPC Bands E, F & G) & now eligible for insulation measures + first time heating systems (not boiler replacements).
• Local authorities - ‘flexible eligibility’ mechanism – up to 10% of suppliers Affordable Warmth Obligation.
• Capping installation of mains-gas ‘qualifying’ boiler replacements under Affordable Warmth at the equivalent of 25,000 per year.
For a more detailed briefing please contact [email protected] You can also read the main points we make in our ECO response here: http://www.nea.org.uk/media/news/nea-responded-help-heat-consultation/
ECO 2t other key announcements -
Prepayment Meter cap
• The Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) PPM cap will come into force from 1 April 2017
• Applying to all PPM customers except those with an excluded smart meter (SMETS 2)
• The scale of the reductions required will vary significantly by supplier and depending on a customer’s consumption but on average is worth £80 per year
• Following the cap announcement Ofgem expect suppliers to be making price announcements
Vulnerability Principle Confirmed • Ofgem also released draft proposals for new vulnerability
principle when moving towards introducing Principle Based Regulation (PBR)
• Coupled with a clear statement on preserving existing safeguards afforded under current licence conditions, NEA welcome attempts to introduce the broad vulnerability principle and the setting of a clear requirement for suppliers to not only identify but respond
to needs of vulnerable customers. https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/system/files/docs/2017/01/standards_of_conduct_for_suppliers_in_the_retail_energy_market_0.pdf
Bonfield Review – Each Home Counts
Final review released on 19th December. Covering: • Consumer advice and protection
– What supports consumers’ decisions ahead of the installation, and what assistance is available when things go wrong?
• Standards framework – What ensures that the right products are fitted to the right
properties in the right way during the installation? • Monitoring and enforcement
– What ensures that poor quality work is dealt with effectively, and do arrangements for audit, compliance-checking
and sanctions provide sufficient assurance of this?
Bonfield Review – Each Home Counts
• A new Framework includes Quality Mark for all energy efficiency & renewables measures. This will comprise 3 elements:
• Consumer Charter - to ensure households receive excellent customer service, access to clear redress process & guarantee protection
• Code of Conduct – which sets out how a company operates, behaves & reports
• Code of Practice – relevant to installation of individual measures
Bonfield Review – Each Home Counts • Companies will also have to display competences with the
various regulatory bodies e.g. Health and Safety Executive • Introduction of an Information Hub to act as a collection point
for best practice on standards, guidance, statistics and information
• There will also be a Data Warehouse which will hold EPCs (access free) and other data e.g. from Ofgem on schemes they administer (requires secondary legislation)
• Some improvements already in place e.g. Trust mark for boiler installs through HSE and Gas Safe Register
• To read the report click here
RHI response • Increases in tariffs for new ASHPs and GSHPs to 10.02 p/kWh
and 19.55p/kWh respectively • Changes to the support given to ground source heat pump
systems supplying multiple properties • Requirement that all new domestic heat pumps have electricity
meters installed • Heat demand limits introduced, to limit the level of annual
heat demand • Option for households to assign their rights to payments
through the scheme to a third party. • Subject to Parliamentary approval, the changes expected to come into effect in April 2017 • To read the full response click here
Update on Fuel Poverty Action Plan for London
• Set out clear commitments for London to meet national targets • Pushed for better tariff offerings for low income consumers • Drive efficiency in smart rollout • Tackle the worst conditions in the private rented sector as a
priority and galvanise work in boroughs • Encourage social landlords to continue to improve stock • Reduce cost to London health services • Improve targeting of assistance & help practitioner identify cold
homes • Work with network companies • Use Mayors influence to address national barriers and gaps in provision
Digital Economy Bill
• Digital Economy Bill could play important role in supporting energy companies to identify & deliver help to struggling energy consumers in line with Fuel Poverty Strategy for England
Digital Economy Bill • Clause 30 - Disclosure of information to improve public service
delivery: – councils, local public sector health bodies and energy network
companies should also be able to access information to identify and support vulnerable households
• Clause 31- Disclosure of information to gas and electricity suppliers: – Reducing energy costs – Improving efficiency in the use of energy – Improving health and financial wellbeing – Support schemes to reduce fuel poverty
For more information please contact [email protected]
Prospectus for Universal Affordable Warmth
Launched in Parliament in January 2017 - All Parliamentary Group for Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency • The report profiles the different types of AW schemes across
the UK simultaneously delivering wider benefits • Profiles best practice across a number of affordable warmth
schemes • Aims to encourage collaboration between local services • Highlights the key ways in which Parliamentarians can facilitate,
help, champion, help expand, and replicate good practice schemes in their own constituencies.
• We also included some top tips for engaging with Parliamentarians independent of the group
• The report is available here
Update on engagement with NIC
• NIC have published response to one of their first consultations - about
process & methodology • Response highlights that respondents called for energy efficiency to
be a key theme of NIA, with some suggesting should be linked to strategy for decarbonising UK’s heating supply
• NIC currently developing NIA - interim report published later this year to set out infrastructure needed.
• NEA has engaged at workshops & directly with NIC to make strong case for domestic energy efficiency to be regarded as hugely important infrastructure priority
• Engagement strategy in place & we are working alongside non-departmental public bodies, a growing number of industry & NGO
• Using new Prospectus we will also be lobbying MPs to make case in advance of Budget 2017 & as part of UK Government’s industrial strategy
HECA reports • On the 10th January BEIS issued updated guidance on HECA • Alongside requesting other info (due by the end of March) BEIS
highlights relevance of Gov duties to all LAs on FP/PRS etc • It also asks whether local authorities intend to take up the
‘flexible eligibility’ proposals for the ECO from April 2017 • Important to respond to do justice to existing work. • Please also underline partnerships that are established in the
area to deliver support, including with the health sector, social care services, energy suppliers and charities.
• See:https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/581598/HECA_Guidance_2017.pdf.
Paper for Gas Distribution Networks • NEA has worked with the GDNs to identify opportunities for them to meet or
exceed their connection targets & install first time central heating systems
• The paper will set out why important to address fuel poverty in off grid households & role of gas distribution networks
• BEIS’s impact assessment for ECO2t notes only 4,000 fully funded first time central heating systems are installed under ECO2T
• This leaves a shortfall of 12,650 gas central heating systems required to complete a pro rata share of remaining targets.
• Given lack of funding for First Time Central Heating (FTCH) paper explores funding gap & options – A commitment in upcoming Budget for a continuation of funding for first time central heating (FTCH) in England & Wales – A ring-fence in the longer term ECO scheme for FTCH
• For further information regarding this report please contact Juliette Burroughs,
• T: 0207 250 8319 | M: 0774 040 3530 | E: [email protected].
Other consultations • NEA has responded to several other key consultations this
quarter; – A joint call for evidence on smart flexible energy by BEIS & Ofgem – The Future of heat in domestic buildings by BEIS – A response to the Public Accounts Committee investigating the state of
the nation’s housing stock. – National Infrastructure Commission: Call for Evidence
• Currently NEA intends to respond to the following consultations this quarter:
– Ofgem draft Forward Work Programme 2017-18 – Consultation on large supplier smart meter roll-out plans – Labour’s Industrial Strategy Consultation – Proposed changes to Government's Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP)
Key upcoming priorities • Following up on key responses
• Prospectus and GDNs report dissemination
• ECO (fallout from transition consultation response and longer
term scheme)
• PRS regulations revisions and consultation
• Further engagement with NIC & production of the NIA
Local fuel poverty data sets and schemes
Fuel Poverty Stats: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/2014-sub-regional-fuel-poverty-data-low-income-high-costs-indicator LEAP project: https://www.projectleap.org.uk/ Improving Energy Efficiency in Communities - NEA Top 10 tips: https://www.fuelpovertyresource.org.uk/resources/ starter-kits/local-event-starter-kit/
Fuel Poverty Resource
https://www.fuelpovertyresource.org.uk/
How can community-owned renewables support local energy and fuel poverty
programs?
Jake Burnyeat
Communities for Renewables CIC (CfR)
www.cfrcic.co.uk
About CfR CIC
Not for profit CIC providing:
• Local energy enterprise set up and strategic advice • Renewable energy project development support • At-risk investment to fund development costs • Finance raising commercial advice and management • Asset management and company admin support Experience includes:
• Worked with over 20 local energy enterprises, mostly in the South West
• Helped deliver over £25 million of community solar over last 2 years • Advised local authorities and social landlords on renewable energy
business models, project development and financing
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Plymouth Energy Community / PEC Renewables
£2,450,000 from 3 share offers over 3 years plus c.£4,000,000 in loan finance from Plymouth City Council. Funded community owned solar on over 30 schools and community buildings. 4.1MW solar farm on brownfield site. Over £4,000,000 in community surplus income over 20 years to help tackle fuel poverty in the city. Earning members a 6% per year return. www.plymouthenergycommunity.com
Tamar Energy Community (Tavistock)
50kW solar array at Abbey Garden Machinery, Tavistock
100kW solar array under construction at Plymstock School
www.tamarenergycommunity.com
300kW of roof top solar. 6 schools and commercial buildings. £310,000 raised through loan finance and pending community share offer.
Ferry Farm Community Solar (Selsey,West Sussex)
5MW solar farm. £300,000 from share offer plus £4,500,000 in commercial finance. £1,200,000 in community surplus income over 25 years to support local energy and fuel poverty program and community grant fund.
Gawcott Fields Community Solar (Buckingham)
4.2MW solar farm. £500,000 from bond offer plus £3,500,000 in loan finance. £2,000,000 in community surplus income over 25 years to support local energy and fuel poverty program and community grant fund.
Wick Farm Community Solar (Burnham / Weston)
9.3MW solar farm To be refinanced through long-term loans and bond offer. Community income to be used to support an energy and fuel poverty program in the local area and community grant fund.
Challenges and opportunities
Challenges
•FiT and ROC cuts make it difficult to develop new MW-scale projects •Planning shut-down for wind •Grid constraints
Opportunities
•Roof-top solar where power used on-site •Community purchase of operational projects •Low cost finance models •Local supply models in next few years •RCEF feasibility grant funding still available
Contact
Jake Burnyeat (Director)
e. [email protected] m. 0781 501 45 40 t.01326 567 161
www.cfrcic.co.uk
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NEA ECO2 TRANSITION
Credit: EDF Energy - Mark Dallen / BEIS – Carolina Valsecchi Danni Crosland Programme Manager National Energy Action
ECO 2 Transition
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• Consultation launched 29th June 2016 • Closed 17th August • Final Consultation Published 30th
January 2017
Help to Heat Consultation Document for publication.pdf
Copy of consultation available via link below
Help to Heat Consultation Outcome
Copy of consultation results available via link below
ECO 2017 - 18 and ECO 2018 - 22
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Estimated Supplier Spend reduced for ECO2t 2017-2018
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Affordable Warmth and Local Authorities
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Inefficient Housing Inclusion of all social housing with an E, F or G EPC rating. These are for insulation measures only, except for first time Central Heating or District Heating schemes Flexible Eligibility* Local authorities to be able to identify and designate private tenure households as eligible under Affordable Warmth (HHCRO) up to 10% of the suppliers target. There are two main categories of private tenure household that could be made eligible: i) Fuel poor households that are not in receipt of eligible benefits (including the
estimated 20% of fuel poor households that are not in receipt of any benefits) ii) Low income households that are vulnerable to the effects of living in a cold home
iii) Some non fuel poor homes (in fill) for SWI projects – see BEIS criteria in appendix Excludes social housing properties as they are covered by property bands E, F and G.
*More details on BEIS presentation to follow
Universal credit and has a relevant net earned monthly income threshold for their household composition
Child tax credit & or Working tax credit and has a relevant gross annual income threshold for their household composition
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children Single Adult £1,100 £1,450 £1,800 £2,150 £2,500
Two adults or more
£1,650 £2,000 £2,350 £2,700 £3,050
Income support &/or Income-based Jobseekers Allowance &/or Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
Changes • Income support with no additional requirements needed to qualify • Universal and tax credits with income thresholds linked to the household composition • Flexibility arrangement for local authorities • Social housing - EPC E,F,G eligible
Pension Credit
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children
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child
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children
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children Single Adult £13,200 £17,400 £21,600 £25,800 £30,000
Two adults or more
£19,800 £24,000 £28,200 £32,400 £36,600
Flexibility Arrangement Social Housing
Local authorities to be able to identify and designate
households as eligible under Affordable Warmth up to 10%
of the target
Any social housing in EPC Band E, F, G is eligible
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ECO2t Heating Measures (HHCRO)
ECO2t is an insulation led programme i.e. “Fabric First”. Some heating measures will be limited and others will have no limits Limits and Targets • Qualifying Gas Boilers will be capped to 37,000 installs over 18
months • Solid Wall Insulation measures have been extended to a minimum of
32,000 installs No Limits • Heating Controls any fuel • First Time Central Heating • Qualifying non-gas boiler replacements such as Oil or LPG (to be
scored with electric heating baseline) • Non Qualifying Boiler repair or replacement any fuel • Electric Storage Heaters (as per existing ECO2 rules) • Renewable Heating • Heat Networks (District Heating Schemes)
Other points to note:
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• Original Deemed Scoring has been uplifted by 30%
Revised Deemed Scores
• OFGEM Consultation Part 2 has now been published
Ofgem ECO Consultation Part 2
• Rural Target as part of CERO set at 15%
Flexible Eligibility under ECO: Help to Heat
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What is Flexible Eligibility? • Suppliers will be able to achieve up to 10% of their Affordable Warmth target
for the extension period in households declared eligible by local authorities
• Two main categories of private tenure we intend to target. Households:
1. Living in fuel poverty, in particular those not in receipt of benefits 2. Living on a low income and vulnerable to the effects of living in a cold home
• Some non-fuel poor homes (in-fill) will be allowed for SWI projects, if: • 66% in blocks of flats, terraces, adjacent properties are FP/LIVC or • 50% in semi-detached houses or bungalows and two premises’ buildings are FP/LIVC.
• ‘Flexibility’ only covers eligibility - all other rules of the scheme will apply normally to ECO
measures.
• It will be up to suppliers and LAs to set up partnerships
• Ways of identifying households will vary
Targeting flexible eligibility LAs will have flexibility as to what specific criteria or methodology they use to target private tenure households within each category:
• Living in fuel poverty
BEIS Guidance suggests low income thresholds and housing characteristics indicative of high energy costs • Low income and vulnerable to cold BEIS guidance based on NICE guidelines; LAs should use their JSNAs as basis for criteria
Key components • BEIS guidance (roles/responsibilities; targeting; templates; data sharing) to be circulated for comments shortly • LA Statement of intent
• For the LA to set out publicly their approach • Must be published by the LA before issuing declarations • Must include how they intend to identify eligible households • Ofgem will audit the above
• LA Declaration
• To demonstrate households are eligible for Affordable Warmth • Must include the LA ‘reason’ for eligibility (FP, LIVC, in-fill) • A separate declaration for SWI with in-fill (incl %) • Ofgem will check declarations and in-fill %
• Suppliers notification (wherever an LA declaration was provided)
• URN • Reason provided by LA (FP, LIVC in-fill)
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Roles and responsibilities Organisation Summary of roles & responsibilities BEIS • Production and maintenance of LA SoI/declaration guidance & associated
template forms Local Authority • Production and publication of Statement of Intent (SoI)
• Producing, authorising and issuing the declaration determining a household to be eligible
• Retaining information to sufficiently evidence that a household meets the criteria outlined in the SoI for future reporting or audit
Supplier • Making available declarations on request
• Checking that the LA has published an SoI, dated prior to the date of the declaration including a section on the methodology for identifying eligible households (note the supplier is not responsible for assessing the content – only that it exists)
• Where a supplier decides to install a measure, the supplier will also be responsible for ensuring that measures are installed according to the ECO regulations and carried out in domestic premises.
Ofgem • Audit of LA declarations to ensure all required information is present.
• Reviewing notification data relating to flexible eligibility provision
• Checking that a statement of intent was published before the declaration was made and including how they intend to identify eligible households
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Thank You
• Two rounds of installs 2014 - 2016
• £1.45 million community shares • 319 investor members
• £0.9m finance
• Solar roofs on 32 schools and community
buildings
• 2MW clean energy
Plymouth’s largest solar roof
Ernesettle Ground Mounted solar array
Ernesettle Community Solar
• Already produced 3,153 MWh clean power and saved 1,558 tonnes of carbon
• 18 acres of wildflower meadow
• 2 bug hotels
• Over 500m native hedgerow and tree species planted this winter
• Ongoing community engagement
Subsidy free solar Community Storage?
Projects in Development
PEC projects
PEC R PEC
PECR project delivery: Community benefit payments Asset management Project development
PEC’s sustainability: Staff retention Critical mass Cash Flow
PEC PEC R
PEC building expertise around : • energy efficiency • low carbon generation • fuel poverty case work
Engagement with/ facilitation of changing energy system
@plymenergycom [email protected] www.plymouthenergycommunity.com
Using smart energy and sensor data for energy advice:
the CharIoT project
Fuel poverty forum
08/03/2017
“70% of our work is about giving
people advice on how to use their heating controls”
Not very interested…
worried what might happen…
don’t believe you..
But people don’t implement the
advice …
• Where feedback is specific and personal it is more effective – move beyond rules of thumb • Energy literacy helps - where people can link their behaviour, the way the home is used, to their own energy consumption • Where people can see when things are anomalous • Where people can see if they are running the home unhealthily • Where people can see the relationship between their energy consumption and the things that matter to them - health, comfort and the costs of being comfortable
Now you’re talking…
Means…sensing, analytics and engaging visualisation of information
Effective advice..
For example.. …showing where is underheated in the home …and the dangers of underheating inc. the relationship between temperature and humidity
1. Visit 1 – deployment of the kit and collection of information about heating settings and equipment
2. Visit 2 - advice visit – using the data collected from deploying kit
conduct advice visit 3. Visit 3 - collection of kit and report on any changes shown in data
following advice visit
Advice service…
•What are the heating times and temperature range? Do these match occupancy?
•Is humidity over 70% (damp and mould)?
Interpreting the data
•Do fuel, temp and humidity use fit together?
•Does electricity use indicate anything about appliances or their usage?
• Does temperature imply anything about the energy performance of the property?
Interpreting the data
Gas use (dark blue) and temperature in Kitchen (grey), living room (purple), upstairs bedroom (olive) and hall (pink)
Having a number of sensors allowed a much richer story to emerge - some parts of the home not healthy
Temperature and humidity relationship - having data on this showing clear relationship very engaging
The platform was very usable by advisors
Matching energy consumption to occupancy
Demonstrating the benefits of control
What worked well…
Flagging issues – underheating, overheating, high/low humidity
In stable households – could begin to link energy consumption with behaviour
False economy 7 - Household not using storage heaters properly. Instead heating living room with electric fire – high costs (£1700/annum). Data showed this expensive heating pattern. Client could see the impact of using electric fire on consumption pattern.
The unhealthy home – Household with significant damp and condensation problems – widespread mould growth. Underheating the home. Baby (heart condition), toddler, older child (asthma). Showing relationship between humidity and temperature made it clear that behaviour change was required to protect health…(turning up heating and heating for longer)
The baking baker – Overheated home. No temperature schedule (thermostat used as on-off). High rel. humidity due to temp fluctuation and drying habits. Visualisation allowed client to see connection between lifestyle and temp/humidity
The cold extension - ongoing problems with damp and condensation in extension to the rear meaning disabled son’s bedroom couldn't be used. Temp/humidity data showed how cold /humid the extension was (17 degrees) and gave householder confidence to request improvements from the council.
Areas to work on
Extracting more value out of the revealed
relationship between external temperature
and heating energy consumption
An interface for the people?
Tamper-proof hubs..?
Extracting ½ hourly energy data from suppliers…working with smart meters…
Technical development
No suitable proprietary gas sensing for an advice application
Good open source electricity monitoring available. But expensive.
We need the CAD…
Temp/humidity sensors are cheap, long battery life and reliable
What If?
What would it cost if I turned up my thermostat to 21 degrees?
Temperature Actual internal temperature Fitted internal temperature External temperature
Humidity Fitted humidity Actual humidity
1. Benchmark energy use patterns, temp and humidity 2. Introduce intervention (e.g. behaviour change, new heating system) 3. Measure changes
Measuring effects of an intervention..
Home energy management platform
• Targeted at householders (and advisors, carers) • Much richer (and ongoing) interaction with energy data • Use Gameification principles (challenges, awards – What If?) • “Social” functions - e.g. peer comparison, crowd source solutions • Thermal safeguarding - alerts and alarms • Actuation - e.g. control of smart thermostats
