<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><ns2:project xmlns:ns1="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api" xmlns:ns2="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/project" xmlns:ns3="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/fund" xmlns:ns4="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/person" xmlns:ns5="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/project/outcome" xmlns:ns6="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/organisation" ns1:created="2026-06-03T15:52:43Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/projects/786C34BA-FDA3-4563-A860-B434B4DBA3B2" ns1:id="786C34BA-FDA3-4563-A860-B434B4DBA3B2"><ns1:links><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/persons/9F12185B-E039-4A10-B587-C8DBB18DCAF7" ns1:rel="PM_PER"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/92821B5C-8203-4242-9EE8-471C0D78ACCE" ns1:rel="LEAD_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/5F65294C-521C-40B3-A799-CFEE11492130" ns1:rel="PARTICIPANT_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/6768C5E1-E68D-470F-BA20-8473FA513FA9" ns1:rel="PARTICIPANT_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/92821B5C-8203-4242-9EE8-471C0D78ACCE" ns1:rel="PARTICIPANT_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:end="2015-07-30T23:00:00Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/funds/EA578108-A14F-4EA8-AABD-78EC9AD81B01" ns1:rel="FUND" ns1:start="2015-04-30T23:00:00Z"/></ns1:links><ns2:identifiers><ns2:identifier ns2:type="RCUK">132014</ns2:identifier></ns2:identifiers><ns2:title>Commercially Viable Low Carbon Vehicle Grid Services</ns2:title><ns2:status>Closed</ns2:status><ns2:grantCategory>Feasibility Studies</ns2:grantCategory><ns2:leadFunder>Innovate UK</ns2:leadFunder><ns2:abstractText>This feasibility study looks at how new digital value chains arising from interconnected managed smart energy clusters in rural areas can stimulate economic development and commercial diversification. This includes incentives for supply and demand side efficiencies. 
Innovation comes from new cross-industry services stimulated by a combination of local energy assets and rural “interconnectedness” which can support new highly disruptive supply chains.</ns2:abstractText></ns2:project>