Adaptation and Resilience In Energy Systems (ARIES)
Lead Research Organisation:
Heriot-Watt University
Department Name: Sch of the Built Environment
Abstract
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Organisations
People |
ORCID iD |
| Phil Banfill (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
David Jenkins (Author)
(2012)
Methods for predicting future energy demands to assess energy system resilience
Jenkins D
(2014)
Synthesising electrical demand profiles for UK dwellings
in Energy and Buildings
Jenkins D
(2018)
Integrating building modelling with future energy systems
in Building Services Engineering Research and Technology
Jenkins D
(2015)
Quantifying Change in Buildings in a Future Climate and Their Effect on Energy Systems
in Buildings
Simpson S.A.
(2014)
A local scale dynamic stock model for high resolution thermal demand
in Building simulation and Optimization (BSO14)
| Description | This project was a collaboration with the University of Edinburgh. Their work focused on the larger scale renewable energy systems and concluded that in most cases the need for adaptation to a changing climate is low but there appears to be evidence for positive adaptation measures to maximise yields from small-scale hydropower. There are clearly climate impacts on both supply and demand, but the supply-side changes are less significant than due to technological and behavioural change arising from efforts to decarbonise housing. Techniques to model the effect of climate change on the energy demand in housing and the built environment have been developed from those in previous work and led to methods of assessing the impact of behavioural change and new technologies - building types, insulation, forms of heating, etc. These modelling techniques can be applied to individual dwellings as well as to groups of dwellings, up to the level of a settlement, and could be used by regulatory authorities, policymakers and professionals to study a range of future scenarios. That they have not been taken up so far is more likely due to the short-term vision of the stakeholders but this may well change as policymakers respond to public opinion. |
| Exploitation Route | Text |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy Construction Energy |
| Description | Centre for Energy Systems Integration |
| Amount | £5,359,128 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/P001173/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2016 |
| End | 09/2022 |