Modern Energy Partners (MEP) was a ground-breaking innovation programme tasked with exploring how to decarbonise the public sector estate, delivered in collaboration with selected government departments and the NHS.

Completed in September 2021, Phase 2 of MEP was funded by the Innovation team at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and overseen by BEIS and the Cabinet Office. The programme focused on learning through doing, testing out the practicalities of decarbonisation on complex campus-style public sector sites.

Through the MEP programme, a wide range of insights and tools were developed to guide public sector organisations through the decarbonisation process. Energy Systems Catapult, supported by BEIS, have made these available to public sector organisations and the wider supply chain.