The Bishop’s Palace in Wells, Somerset, a stunning historic landmark, is leading the way in sustainability. In response to rising energy costs, the Palace has teamed up with Gridimp to introduce smart energy solutions that not only optimize energy use but also enhance efficiency, drive profitability, and protect its heritage for the future.
Take a revolutionary approach to energy to protect a historically important building.
With its beautiful historic architecture and unique layout, the Bishop’s Palace needed a modern approach to energy management. To tackle rising costs and improve sustainability, Gridimp introduced our impAnalytics & impAuto services. By integrating these solutions with existing systems like the water-source heat pump, optimally sizing new solar generation and integrating with electrical storage heating systems. the Palace now benefits from real-time energy monitoring, reduced waste and making energy usage smarter and more efficient.
The installation of Gridimp’s technology transformed energy management with real-time monitoring and intelligent automation, cutting costs by optimizing usage of their own zer carbon generation and avoidance of peak price and carbon consumption. Enhanced heating controls ensured efficiency without sacrificing visitor comfort.
The key control challenge was having an easily retrofitted intelligent heating control solution within this significant historic medieval building containing many precious artifacts including artwork and the Bishop of Bath and Wells Coronation Cope. Now the Palace is automatically considering forecast OAT (outside air temperature) and energy tariff variables and long with energy flexibility market price signals combined with internal temperature and moisture monitoring data to dynamically optimise its heating energy use.
Bishop’s Palace has advanced its energy strategy by integrating AI driven smart heating control that dynamically adjusts to weather patterns, heat loss, and seasonal variations. These enhancements will further optimize efficiency, support long-term financial sustainability, and accelerate progress toward achieving net-zero emissions.
Cost Savings – Lower energy use from reduced run times lessen the impact of rising costs.
Sustainability – Measured reduction in carbon intensive peak imports & reduced over consumption align with long-term environmental goals.
Smart Energy Management – Real-time data drives informed decisions on efficiency and investments.
Optimized Heating – Advanced solutions enhance comfort while cutting waste. Reduced manual control interventions and system overrun creating 40% savings in cost and CO2e emissions.
