Flexibility from Cooling and Storage (Flex-Cool-Store)
Lead Research Organisation:
CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
Department Name: Sch of Engineering
Abstract
We are currently facing an unprecedented climate emergency threatening life on our planet. Limiting global surface temperature rise is key to ensure irreversible effects for nature and people are not triggered. For the UK, decarbonisation of the energy sector to mitigate climate change is a crucial ambition, becoming the first major economy to pass legislation to end its contribution to global warming by 2050 by reducing its carbon emissions to net-zero. Even though a significant emission reduction has been already achieved in the electric power sector, progress has been limited in other areas, such as heating (including space cooling), which accounts for over a third of UK emissions. Heating and cooling are central to our lives not only for comfort and daily activities, but also to facilitate productive workplaces and to run a variety of industrial processes. Decarbonising heating and cooling and reducing emissions from buildings are thus paramount to meet net-zero targets.
Cooling decarbonisation has not previously received significant attention, but this is changing due to population increase and climate change. Summertime cooling of buildings is becoming increasingly important and consumer demand for greater comfort levels will also increase the energy used for cooling services. An increased requirement for cooling is anticipated, with the share of UK electricity used for cooling also expected to rise further, which could strain the electricity system. At the same time, summer electricity demand is changing with a surge in solar PV generation, causing concern for balancing the power system. Since cooling facilities are in general limited to building level, significant investments in cooling infrastructure and buildings are needed.
Flex-Cool-Store brings together academics with complementary expertise on techno-economic, societal and policy aspects of electrical power supply and thermal energy systems. The main objective of this interdisciplinary project is to investigate the potential impacts of a growth in UK cooling demand and how this growth can be managed through proactive design and flexible operation of the cooling supply system and energy storage, and how the new demand can be served by an increasingly decarbonised electricity system. Underpinning this, public perception towards the adoption of cooling technologies within buildings and communities and consumer participation in flexibility provision from energy storage at household level will be explored via interviews and public workshops. Outcomes will be considered alongside pathways and policies associated with heat decarbonisation, and novel analysis using 'elite' interviews with policy makers will be conducted to consider the potential relationship between heat decarbonisation strategies, cooling and storage. This interdisciplinary approach will enable Flex-Cool-Store to address the issue of increasing demand for cooling and decarbonisation from multiple angles and to develop an even stronger evidence for best practice around buildings decarbonisation.
Specific objectives of the project are:
1. Understanding cooling demand considering technical and socio-economic factors. Detailed studies will be conducted to understand how cooling demand might change over the next decades.
2. Quantifying the impacts of increased cooling demand on electricity networks. The extent to which supplying cooling will affect peak electricity demand will be quantified and its implications on network reinforcement will be investigated for selected case studies using data from real practical projects.
3. Investigating the flexibility provision to the electrical power system from integrating cooling technologies and storage. The interactions and synergies between cooling and electricity systems will be studied. How to adopt a coordinated approach for designing and operating energy systems of buildings so that the provision of flexibility can be maximised will be explored.
Cooling decarbonisation has not previously received significant attention, but this is changing due to population increase and climate change. Summertime cooling of buildings is becoming increasingly important and consumer demand for greater comfort levels will also increase the energy used for cooling services. An increased requirement for cooling is anticipated, with the share of UK electricity used for cooling also expected to rise further, which could strain the electricity system. At the same time, summer electricity demand is changing with a surge in solar PV generation, causing concern for balancing the power system. Since cooling facilities are in general limited to building level, significant investments in cooling infrastructure and buildings are needed.
Flex-Cool-Store brings together academics with complementary expertise on techno-economic, societal and policy aspects of electrical power supply and thermal energy systems. The main objective of this interdisciplinary project is to investigate the potential impacts of a growth in UK cooling demand and how this growth can be managed through proactive design and flexible operation of the cooling supply system and energy storage, and how the new demand can be served by an increasingly decarbonised electricity system. Underpinning this, public perception towards the adoption of cooling technologies within buildings and communities and consumer participation in flexibility provision from energy storage at household level will be explored via interviews and public workshops. Outcomes will be considered alongside pathways and policies associated with heat decarbonisation, and novel analysis using 'elite' interviews with policy makers will be conducted to consider the potential relationship between heat decarbonisation strategies, cooling and storage. This interdisciplinary approach will enable Flex-Cool-Store to address the issue of increasing demand for cooling and decarbonisation from multiple angles and to develop an even stronger evidence for best practice around buildings decarbonisation.
Specific objectives of the project are:
1. Understanding cooling demand considering technical and socio-economic factors. Detailed studies will be conducted to understand how cooling demand might change over the next decades.
2. Quantifying the impacts of increased cooling demand on electricity networks. The extent to which supplying cooling will affect peak electricity demand will be quantified and its implications on network reinforcement will be investigated for selected case studies using data from real practical projects.
3. Investigating the flexibility provision to the electrical power system from integrating cooling technologies and storage. The interactions and synergies between cooling and electricity systems will be studied. How to adopt a coordinated approach for designing and operating energy systems of buildings so that the provision of flexibility can be maximised will be explored.
Organisations
- CARDIFF UNIVERSITY (Lead Research Organisation)
- UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM (Collaboration)
- Cardiff University (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON (Collaboration)
- Technical University of Munich (Collaboration)
- HANOI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Collaboration)
- INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI (Collaboration)
Publications
Bastida H
(2023)
Effective one-dimensional dynamic modelling of latent heat thermal energy storage units for heating applications
in IET Energy Systems Integration
Bastida H
(2022)
Dynamic modelling of ice-based thermal energy storage for cooling applications
in IET Energy Systems Integration
De La Cruz I
(2021)
Microgrids and Local Energy Systems
De La Cruz-Loredo I
(2023)
Experimental validation of a hybrid 1-D multi-node model of a hot water thermal energy storage tank
in Applied Energy
De La Cruz-Loredo I
(2022)
Dynamic simulation and control of the heat supply system of a civic building with thermal energy storage units
in IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution
| Description | Flex-Cool-Store has been an exciting interdisciplinary project linking three universities (Cardiff, Bath and Exeter) working together to tackle a challenge which has not received sufficient attention in the past: cooling. Due to climate change and heatwaves, this is expected to be prevalent in a warmer future, affecting our and future generations. Cooling has been investigated from different angles: public perception and acceptability of cooling technologies in a warming world, policy around cooling decarbonisation, and techno-economics. Beyond multiple academic papers published at high-profile journals and conferences, several engagement activities were conducted, bringing cooling into the spotlight, and stimulating fruitful discussion with several stakeholders nationally and internationally. This goes beyond purely academic work, engaging also with policymakers, politicians, industry, businesses, and the wider public. Additional project outputs are still under development as the project will conclude towards the end of September 2024, but our policy contributions towards cooling are expected to be impactful. Our efforts, so far, have led to further exciting collaborations in the UK and internationally. Flex-Cool-Store facilitated innovation in different disciplines, working together and developing tools to enable a better understanding of cooling demand in the UK, how this may change over the next decades, its impact on electricity networks and buildings, and the potential flexibility provision that thermal energy storage technologies can provide to electrical power systems. |
| Exploitation Route | The methods published have been cited by the academic community. The datasets for cooling demand of individual dwellings and communities and the tools around them, to be made widely available towards the second semester of 2024, have the potential to become a very useful source of information for academia, housing developers, cooling technology manufacturers, energy managers of public facilities, and the general public. |
| Sectors | Energy Environment |
| URL | https://www.flexcoolstore.org/ |
| Description | A policy briefing and a submission for a call for evidence from the Environmental Audit Committee on cooling-related aspects have been produced as part of the project. This activity, together with the academic papers (some still under development on participatory activities alongside policymakers), is expected to contribute towards shaping a policy around decarbonisation of cooling and better link this with heat and building decarbonisation pathways. A new patent for our algorithms to estimate the state-of-charge of thermal energy storage units is being planned, which we intend to trial alongside industrial partners. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2023 |
| Sector | Energy,Environment |
| Impact Types | Policy & public services |
| Description | Blowing hot and cold: Reflecting the potential value of air-to-air heat pumps in UK energy policy |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| URL | https://www.raponline.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/rap-lowes-air-air-heat-pump-uk-2023-nov.pdf |
| Description | Submission to Environmental Audit Committee call for evidence on heat resilience and sustainable cooling from Flexibility from Cooling and Storage Project |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/123184/pdf/ |
| Description | Geobatteries: energy storage in the pedosphere to enable the renewables revolution |
| Amount | £201,583 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/X018865/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2022 |
| End | 05/2024 |
| Description | Increasing urban overheating risk from cooling decarbonisation by heat pumps |
| Amount | £49,992 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2023 |
| End | 07/2023 |
| Title | Methodology to predict future heating and cooling demand in the UK for housing communities |
| Description | A methodology that predicts future heating and cooling demand for housing communities in the UK has been developed. It makes use of UKCP database temperature predictions and solar radiation and ambient temperatures obtained from the IES software to calculate indoor heat gains. Transient heat transfer models of simple building components were implemented in Modelica and validated against experimental results, enabling to upscale to a number of houses within a community. The model enables obtaining annual cooling and heating demand datasets for housing communities. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | There is no impact yet, but this methodology will lead to a publicly available datasets for future heating and cooling demand in the UK. |
| Title | Methodology to predict future heating and cooling demand in the UK for individual dwellings |
| Description | A methodology that predicts future heating and cooling demand for individual dwellings in the UK until the year 2040 has been developed. It makes use of UKCP database temperature predictions coupled with developed models in IES VE which have been validated using experimental data. The models in IES VE incorporate construction material properties and consider the most common dwelling types (such as terraced houses, bungalows, flats). |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | There is no impact yet, but this methodology will lead to a publicly available graphical user interface and datasets for future heating and cooling demand in the UK. |
| Title | Methodology to quantify the state-of-charge in thermal batteries for heating and cooling systems |
| Description | A methodology that estimates the state-of-charge of sensible and latent heat thermal energy storage units with a minimum amount of measurements was developed. It considers three basic steps: modelling of the thermal store, state observation of the temperatures of the storage medium inside the thermal store, and state-of-charge calculation using the specific heat of the storage medium. The methodology does not require sensors to measure internal temperatures as these are estimated, it only requires three measurements, it has a high accuracy, it is based on a simplified model of the thermal store, and it leads to a reduced computational burden. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The methodology has been presented to a wide range of stakeholders and has attracted queries from manufacturers of thermal energy storage systems. A full academic paper providing the scientific basis for the state-of-charge estimation was published in Applied Energy (10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.120448) in February 2023. The methodology was presented in the UKDEA Innovation Showcase Event 2 (November 2022, attended by over 70 people) which was aimed at introducing innovations to members of the UK District Energy Association (UKDEA). A short article on the methodology was also written and included in the UKDEA January Journal, which is available to over 140 members. The UKDEA is a knowledge hub for the district energy sector in the UK and thus, the presentation and the article enabled showcasing the research to UK industrial partners and other stakeholders. |
| Title | Photo-elicitation interviews and Grounded Visual Pattern Analysis to understand current and future cooling strategies and demand in the UK for individual dwellings |
| Description | Visual methods underpinning qualitative data collection were developed. This method involved engagement with 40 households across the South of England who were asked to provide photographs to represent their perceptions and experiences of cooling their homes, both more broadly in periods of increased temperature and specifically with reference to the July 2022 heatwave. Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with participants in two parts. Firstly, photographs were discussed with participants through photo-elicitation interviews and analysed using Grounded Visual Pattern Analysis. Secondly, participants were asked a number of questions interrogating findings drawn from the wider body of literature around strategies for cooling. Thematic analysis was undertaken to analyse qualitative data collected. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Findings from this study have contributed to research currently being undertaken by the University of Nottingham, Health and wellbeing in Nottingham during the 2022 summer heatwave, which is currently in development. Researchers have contributed to the moderation and development of data collection, specifically drawing on the study findings with reference to the 2022 UK heatwave. The use of visual methods was considered pivotal to drawing out narrative aspects of lived experience and provided important insights for the development of this future heatwave study. |
| Title | An effective predictor of the dynamic operation of latent heat thermal energy storage units based on a non-linear autoregressive network with exogenous inputs: data |
| Description | This repository contains datasets and source code to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) based tool to estimate the state-of-charge (SoC) and heat transfer fluid (HTF) outlet temperature of a latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES) tank with water-ice mixture as the phase change material. The AI tool is a non-linear autoregressive network with exogenous inputs (NARX) model, that takes as input the known values of HTF mass flow rate and inlet temperature for the LHTES tank to predict its SoC and HTF outlet temperature. The model recursively uses its past predictions of SoC and HTF outlet temperature to predict the future outputs of these quantities. The dataset comprises CSV files for training and testing the NARX model. For a more detailed explanation of the dataset and the source code's development and performance, refer to the article "An effective predictor of the dynamic operation of latent heat thermal energy storage units based on a non-linear autoregressive network with exogenous inputs" published in the journal Applied Energy in 2024. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | No impact yet. The research team has received queries. |
| URL | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2024.122697 |
| Description | Advisory Board member for Nottingham heatwave project |
| Organisation | University of Nottingham |
| Department | School of Psychology Nottingham |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Christina Demski acts as an advisor to the project: Health and wellbeing in Nottingham during the 2022 heat. Louise King has also contributed our methodological expertise and knowledge about heatwave experiences to this project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Exchange of knowledge and theory in relation to heat experiences, vulnerabilities and the future of cooling. |
| Impact | still ongoing. Outputs expected later in the project |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Research collaboration with Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST) |
| Organisation | Hanoi University of Science and Technology |
| Country | Viet Nam |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The research team brought expertise on heat pumps. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners in HUST brought expertise in computational fluid dynamics. |
| Impact | A research proposal under ISPF (British Council) is under development. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Research collaboration with Indian Institute of Technology Dehli |
| Organisation | Indian Institute of Technology Delhi |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The research team brought expertise on phase change material and thermal energy storage. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners in Indian Institute of Technology Delhi brought expertise in thermodynamics, heat transfer, and access to experimental facilities. |
| Impact | The collaboration led to a journal publication (Applied Energy, 10.1016/j.apenergy.2023.120743) and further exchange of ideas. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Research collaboration with University of East London |
| Organisation | University of East London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Drawing on the findings produced by Dr Louise King from University of Bath, a large nationally representative survey on heatwave experiences and perceptions of heating risks was conducted. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Dr Mehri Khosravi (University of East London, formerly a researcher under Flex-Cool-Store in University of Exeter) ran the survey alongside Dr King and Dr Demski (Bath). Data collection took place in August 2023 and consisted of a British nationally representative sample (n = 1580) to understand perceptions of heating risks and heatwave experiences. |
| Impact | Survey on heatwave experiences and perceptions of heating risks. This led to academic articles currently under development. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Research collaboration with the CoSES research group in the Technische Universität München, Germany |
| Organisation | Technical University of Munich |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The research team brought expertise on dynamic modelling, simulation, control, energy storage, and use of datasets. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners in Technical University of Munich brought expertise in thermodynamics, heat transfer, and access to experimental facilities |
| Impact | The collaboration led to a journal publication (Applied Energy, 10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.120556) and further exchange of ideas. A CEU Horizon Europe Doctoral Training Network is being discussed. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Research collaboration with the School of Architecture of Cardiff University |
| Organisation | Cardiff University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The research team brought expertise on dynamic modelling of energy systems, simulation and control. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The research team in the School of Architecture brought expertise on overheating modelling and heat pumps. |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | 16 March 2022: IET Wiley Webinar on Pathway of Energy Systems Development toward Carbon Neutrality, online, " (CU - Prof. Jianzhong Wu) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation title "Scenarios of UK energy system transition" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | 16-17 December 2022: 2022 China-UK Electrical and Energy Equipment Technology Forum, Birmingham, UK and Nanjing, China, (CU - Prof. Jianzhong Wu) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation entitled "Role of flexibility in carbon neutral urban energy networks" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | 29 July 2023: Purple Mountain Forum & 90th Anniversary Academic Forum of School of Electrical and Information Engineering of Tianjin University - Smart Power Distribution, Consumption and Storage, Radisson Hotel Tianjin Aqua City, Tianjin, China: |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentations entitled "Analysis of new technologies of smart power distribution and consumption" (CU - Prof. Jianzhong Wu); "Smart local energy systems towards net zero: practice and implications from the UK" (CU - Dr Yue Zhou) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | A presentation on energy storage to Toshiba Research Lab |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | An in-person talk followed by a discussion to exploring collaboration opportunities around the topic of energy storage and its whole system value. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | A talk on decarbonisation of heat in Wales and panel discussion in Policy Forum for Wales: Next steps for the energy sector in Wales |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to give a short talk on heat decarbonization in Wales and participate in a panel discussion. The panel was chaired by a member of Sennedd, and the audience was mainly from the industry and public sectors. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Beijing University of Science and Technology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | J Wu gave a key note speech |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Blog: Cooling, a blind spot in UK energy policy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Blog on cooling and Uk energy policy shared via multiple social media platforms |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/energy/2022/03/25/cooling-a-blind-spot-in-uk-energy-policy/ |
| Description | CIGRE Session 2022. Poster presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Carlos Ugalde and Mr Ivan de la Cruz delivered a poster presentation on an accepted conference paper ("Ancillary Services Provision from Local Thermal Systems to the Electrical Power System") in CIGRE Session 2022 to a range of energy stakeholders. The event was held in Paris, France, from 28 August to 2 September 2022. They discussed research findings during a dedicated session. The event brought over 2700 delegates from around the world and over 9000 power industry participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | CSA Catapult Visit/Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting to develop research collaboration with the CSA Catapult |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Cardiff University School of Engineering Research Conference 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Opening speech and keynote speech |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Cardiff University and Wales and West Utilities meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Wales and West Utilities to discuss possible collaboration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Collaboration with Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kings Lynn |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We modelled the energy flows at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kings Lynn to study operation improvements, and was able to demonstrate over 15% cost savings were available. This led to engagement with the local grid company to re-negotiate the electricity connection agreement. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| URL | https://e2s.energy/2023/06/02/qeh-chp-plant-operation-improvement/ |
| Description | Collaboration with Rotherham Hospital NHS partner |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Established collaboration with Rotherham hospital's estate department. Demonstrating research outputs using data from the site as a case study. The work has led to introductions to other NHS organisations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023,2024 |
| Description | Collaboration with South Glocestershire Council to study thermal performance of a care facility |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Collaborate with South Glocestershire Council to develop tools for energy performance assessment and thermal performance modelling of care homes. The research provides new tools for the care commissioning team to support their day to day work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Contribution towards organisation of Future of Cooling Conference (Network H+C) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The academic leads in Flex-Cool-Store have been engaging with Durham University (leading the Network H+C, Decarbonisation of Heating and Cooling) to support the organisation of the ''Future of Cooling' conference, which will take place in 18th-19th April 2024 in Edinburgh. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023,2024 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future-of-cooling-tickets-796756348687? |
| Description | ENC workshop: Strategic Plan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Strategic Plan workshop for the Electricity Network Commissioner's Consult and Review Group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | EPSRC Energy and Decarbonisation Strategy Futures Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion of future strategic priorities for EPSRC's Energy and Decarbonisation research, innovation and skills investments. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | EPSRC Engineering Heads of Department Meeting_ Wed 16th Nov 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | To discuss UKRI Strategic plan |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | EPSRC Panel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Carlos Ugalde participated in the EPRSC Panel "Grid Scale Energy Storage", where funding decisions for research proposals were made |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | EPSRC Workshop - Leveraging LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) for achieving Net Zero in the Built Environment: Challenges and Directions for Future Research". |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Wu participated in this workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | EnergyREV Workshop on 'CyberPhysical Systems challenges for next generation Smart Energy Places: shaping the future role of AI' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Pranay Saikia attended this workshop on behalf of Prof Carlos Ugalde. The aim was to identify and articulate the gaps and challenges to architecting, implementing, and embedding fully digitised Smart Energy Places. Findings from the workshop were delivered in the form of a report, shared with Research Councils to inform research as well as contribute to future funding strategies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.energyrev.org.uk/outputs/insights/energy-smart-places-insights-from-research-and-the-cha... |
| Description | EnergyRev Workshop: CyberPhysical Systems challenges for next generation Smart Energy Places: shaping the future role of AI |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was an invitation-only workshop, attended by Dr Pranay Saikia on behalf of Prof Carlos Ugalde, held on 14th March 2023 at Church House, Westminster, London, as part of the summit 'Energy Smart Place: Insights from research and the challenges ahead". The workshop was aimed at identifying and articulating the gaps and challenges to architecting, implementing, and embedding fully digitised smart energy places. Findings from the workshop will be delivered in the form of a report, which will be shared with Research Councils to inform research as well as contribute to future funding strategies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Engagement with EnergiVault - A thermal storage company |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | - A discussion to establish collaboration between research and industry to develop cold storage technology. The conversation led to sharing of data from a case study site that has been used for research demonstration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | European Control Conference 2022 in London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Wu gave a talk gave in the workshop "Machine learning in smart energy systems |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | FLEXIS Legacy - Supporting Local Area Energy Planning |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Cultivate Innovation to discuss future research collaboration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Flex-Cool-Store website and LinkedIn dissemination |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A dedicated website for Flex-Cool-Store was launched in early 2023, together with a LinkedIn account to disseminate research outputs and project related activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023,2024 |
| URL | https://www.flexcoolstore.org/ |
| Description | Flintshire LVPN |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Gethin Well from Welsh Government to discuss collaboration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Hohai University presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Wu gave a talk to disseminate our research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | ICAE Panel discussion. Speaker. Women in Applied Energy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Wu gave a talk |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://applied-energy.org/icae2022/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/ICAE-2022-Program-Book-V2_2022-08-09.... |
| Description | IET Wiley virtual event on Carbon Emissions: Pathway Energy Systems of Grid Development under Carbon Neutrality |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Jianzhong Wu gave a presentation on Scenarios of the UK Energy System Transition |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/2948361741370996236?source=SocialMedia&utm_source=twitter&... |
| Description | INCOSE Energy Systems Interest Group Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Community Engagement |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | INZAC June Quarterly Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | SPEN Independent Net Zero Advisory Council (INZAC) meeting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | INZAC Technical/Customer Group Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Advisory position on technical group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | INZAC Technical/Customer Group Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Advisory position INZAC Technical/Customer Group |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | INZAC Update - ASTI (Accelerated Strategic Transmission Investment) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting to discuss the development of the ASTI framework |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Integrated Energy Infrastructure Driving the Net Zero Transition - Cracow Plenary talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | VI International Scientific and Technical Conference "Modern Power Systems and Units" 2023. https://wtiue.conrego.pl/en/speakers17 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://wtiue.conrego.pl/en/speakers17 |
| Description | Interview to the Financial Times on air conditioning systems |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | R. Lowes gave an interview to Financial Times on air-conditioning systems. He was quoted in this piece: https://www.ft.com/content/ae81bdc8-9e52-4c2e-a2a3-d3b7dd34e66e |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.ft.com/content/ae81bdc8-9e52-4c2e-a2a3-d3b7dd34e66e |
| Description | Interviews to understand policymaker perspectives on cooling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A number of interviews (54 with a total of 61 people, 10 questions in total) were conducted by Dr Mehri Khosravi (now in UEL, previously in Exeter) and Dr Richard Hoggett (Exeter) from May to September 2023 with the following objectives: 1) To understand policy maker perspectives on the current state of cooling decarbonisation of UK buildings. Using an avoid, improve, shift framework. 2) To understand the wider relationships for decarbonising cooling, in respect to other policy areas - particularly heat decarbonisation, but also flexibility and storage. 3) To understand more about the policy making processes. The following sectors were covered by the interviews: * Government: civil servants within government departments and the Devolved Administrations. * Local government: officers working on energy, climate and planning, local government advisory organisations. * Advisory organisations: statutory advisors, and third sector energy and social advice providers. * Energy industry: network operators, energy suppliers, associated trade associations, the energy regulator. * Wider energy sector: technology companies working within heat, cooling, and storage. Associated trade bodies. * Consultancy: energy and built environment consultancies, building modellers. * Wider civil society: NGOs and charities working on energy, climate, buildings, sustainability, innovation. * Academia: academics working on cooling, the build environment, energy, and planning. * Think tanks: energy, climate, and sustainability. All data has been analysed and is being used to produce an academic article. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Keynote talk to Nanjing Normal Univerity workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Wu gave a presentation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Ktrakow Universoty of Technology KUT Lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Wu invited to give a talk to dessiminate our research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Launch Net 0 Go |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Wu the Ambassador of Cardiff Energy Research. GW4 activity |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.netzerogo.org.uk/s/ |
| Description | Meeting with Celsa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Collaboration meeting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Meeting with Climespace and SRS Works |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Prof Nick Jenkins and Prof Carlos Ugalde attended a meeting with Climespace (district cooling network operator in Paris, France) and SRS Works (industrial partner) on 14th February 2022 to discuss potential research work on district cooling systems featuring thermal energy storage units. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Meeting with Eric Brown - Grid Scientific |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | A meeting to discuss research collaboration with the Energy Systems Catapult |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Meeting with Kensa Heat Pumps |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | R. Lowes and R. Hoggett met with 3 representatives from Kensa Heat Pumps on 23rd October 2023 to discuss opportunities and barriers for use of reversible heat pumps for cooling/heating, policy challenges, supply change and skills. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Meeting with Phil Hourahine to discuss the collaboration with South Wales Engineers Institute |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | regional research collaboration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Meeting with Prof Dibakar Rakshit (IIT-Delhi, India) in Cardiff |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Carlos Ugalde and Dr Pranay Saikia hosted Prof Dibakar Rakshit, from IIT-Delhi (India) in 24th March 2023 to discuss collaboration research work on thermal energy storage systems and thermal applications. Since then the team has published a high-profile academic paper in Applied Energy, with two other papers in progress. A joint proposal with UKIERI is currently under evaluation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2023.120743 |
| Description | Meeting with Prof Dibakar Rakshit (IIT-Delhi, India) in Delhi |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Pranay Saikia met with Dibakar Rakshit, from IIT-Delhi (India), in Delhi on 1st January 2024 to discuss collaboration research work between IIT-Delhi and Cardiff. Details around the UKIERI proposal submitted by the two institutes, currently under review, were discussed and formalised. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Meeting with Sunamp, Rayleigh and SRS Works |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Prof Carlos Ugalde had a meeting with Sunamp, Rayleigh and SRS Works (three UK SMEs) on 14th June 2022 to discuss collaboration. This collaboration would look at integrating low-carbon technologies (heat pumps, thermal batteries and electrical batteries) to decarbonise UK homes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Meeting with The Royal Mint (February 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Prof Nick Jenkins attended a meeting with The Royal Mint on 23 February 2022 aiming to establish research collaboration on the decarbonisation of their existing operations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Meeting with The Royal Mint (May 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Prof Nick Jenkins and Prof Carlos Ugalde attended a meeting with The Royal Mint on 20 May 2022. The meeting involved their head of operations (Steve Clode), project manager (Antony Read), chemists (Lucia Garcia Rodriguez and Hayley Messenger), engineering manager (Karl Rigby), and account manager (Raymond Doran). This is a follow-up meeting from a previous one held in February to identify funding streams and to define the scope of the collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Meeting with Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Carlos Ugalde, alongside other colleagues in Cardiff School of Engineering, hosted a delegation from Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University on 15th September 2023. Discussions on ongoing research topics and projects undertaken by the CIREGS team, including 'Flex-Cool-Store' and 'MC2' took place. Plans for further collaboration were discussed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Meeting with the 'Future of Cooling Programme' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Carlos Ugalde attended a meeting with Prof Radikha Khosla and colleagues from the University of Oxford and the 'Future of Cooling Programme' to discuss collaboration opportunities on the decarbonisation of cooling. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Network H+C webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Mehri Khosravi and Prof Carlos Ugalde delivered the webinar "Flex-Cool-Store project: UK Cooling Demand" on 27th May 2022. In the presentation, an introduction on the 'Flex-Cool-Store' project was provided and the initial research conducted by the team from University of Exeter was presented. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Network+ for the Decarbonisation of Heating and Cooling 2 Sandpit Funding event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The sandpit event took place in 1st November 2022. Prof Carlos Ugalde was invited to attend following a pre-selection process. During the event, he pitched the idea for a research project looking at retrofitting heating systems with heat pumps to meet heating and cooling demand. He also engaged in discussions for potential research collaboration. This led to his involvement in a funded project led by Prof Zhiwen Luo ("Increasing urban overheating risk from cooling decarbonisation by heat pumps", Cardiff University, alongside the University of Plymouth and the University of Birmingham), which kicked off in January 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Nexperia Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Collaboration meeting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Northern Power Grid Technology Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Professor Wu participated in this workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Northern Power Grids 4th Science and Technology Advisory Panel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Participation in Northern PowerGrids Science and Technology Advisory Panel |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Northern PowerGrids 5th Science and Technology Advisory Panel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Advisory Panel Member |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Northern Powergrid - Strategic Technology Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Inform industrial development |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Northern Powergrid 2nd Science and Technology Advisory Panel Meeting (NPg) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Inform industrial development |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Participation in EPSRC Network+ Decarbonisation of Heating and Cooling Summer School 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Arslan Saleem and Dr Pranay Saikia attended the EPSRC Network+ Decarbonisation of Heating and Cooling Summer School for PhD and Early Career Researchers from the 21-23rd August at Durham University. There was a mix of presentations from industry and academic experts, together with workshop sessions and network activities in Durham. This was a good opportunity for Dr Saikia and Dr Saleem to network, discuss, listen, explore and share knowledge from Flex-Cool-Store. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/network-hc-summer-school-12th-16th-august-2024-tickets-835800641217? |
| Description | Participatory workshops on heatwave and cooling demand (July 2023) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Workshops were held to engage with participants around three key research questions: 1) To reflect on 2022 heatwave and evaluate cooling demand (has perception of cooling demand diminished over time? Have recollections of heatwave intensity changed?) 2) To present warmer climate scenarios and understand perceptions of cooling demand and knowledge of coping strategies. 3) To present cooling technologies and understand current perceptions. Workshops were held on dates below with 33 participants attending: * Thursday 13th July 4-7pm * Monday 17th July 10am-1pm * Wednesday 19th July 1-4pm * Saturday 22nd July 10am-1pm These workshops were organised by University of Bath (Dr Louise King and Dr Christina Demski). Data was collected and analysed and are currently used for an academic paper. Outputs from the workshop also informed a national survey conducted alongside University of East London (Dr Mehri Khosravi) on heatwave experiences and perceptions of heating risks. This considered a nationally representative sample (n = 1580), also leading to academic articles under development. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Presentation at "Workshop on Advances in Nonlinear Dynamic System Modelling and Flexibility Analysis for Sustainable Energy Systems", TU Delft |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Carlos Ugalde delivered a research seminar entitled "Flexibility provision from cooling and thermal energy storage to electrical power systems" on 12th June 2023 during the workshop "Advances in Nonlinear Dynamic System Modelling and Flexibility Analysis for Sustainable Energy Systems" at TU Delft, Netherlands. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Presentation at Special Session in IEEE PES PowerTech 2023 Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Carlos Ugalde delivered the presentation entitled "Flexibility provision from thermal stores to energy systems" on 28th June 2023 during the Special Session "Modeling, operation and control of multi-energy systems" during the IEEE PES PowerTech Conference in Belgrade. This Special Session was co-chaired by Prof Carlos Ugalde. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://powertech2023.com/ |
| Description | Presentation at the 15th International Conference on Applied Energy (ICAE'2023) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Mr Lloyd Corcoran delivered an oral presentation at the 15th International Conference on Applied Energy (ICAE'2023). This took place in Doha, Qatar, from the 3rd to 7th December 2023. The title of the work was "Methodology to Quantify Cooling Demand in Typical UK Dwellings". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://applied-energy.org/icae2023/ |
| Description | Presentation at the ARCCA OUG meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Pranay Saikia delivered a presentation on 7th June 2023, entitled "Modelling cooling demand in UK household communities" during the Cardiff University ARCCA Operational User Group meeting. This has facilitated further collaboration with Cardiff's advanced computing team. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Presentation at the Apros User Group Seminar 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Hector Bastida delivered the presentation "Simulation of Heating and Cooling Systems and their Components with Apros" in the Apros User Group Seminar 2022, held in Espoo, Finland, on 27 April 2022. The presentation showcased some of the research undertaken by the research team in Cardiff University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Presentation at the CU-DUT workshop "Smart and Healthy Buildings and Cities towards a Zero-Carbon Future" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Carlos Ugalde delivered a presentation on 25th January 2024, entitled "Modelling Future Cooling Demand during a Warming World" during the Cardiff University - Dalian University of Technology (DUT, China) Workshop "Smart and Healthy Buildings and Cities towards a Zero-Carbon Future". This was held in Welsh School of Architecture. Outputs and ongoing work from Flex-Cool-Store were presented, stimulating further discussion. Prof Ugalde also chaired the morning session entitled "Smart and Healthy Indoor Environment" during the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Presentation at the Cardiff University / UNICAMP (Brasil) collaboration Seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Carlos Ugalde gave a presentation on 14th December 2023 to disseminate the research conducted by the CIREGS research team to academics from UNICAMP (Brasil). Emphasis was made on the work undertaken in EPSRC-funded projects such as Flex-Cool-Store and MC2. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Presentation at the IEEE 7th International Energy Conference (ENERGYCON'2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Hector Bastida delivered an oral presentation 2022 IEEE 7th International Energy Conference (ENERGYCON'22). This took place in Riga, Latvia, from the 9th to the 12th May 2022. The title of the work was "An experimental facility for latent heat thermal energy storage units". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | http://ieee-energycon2022.org/ |
| Description | Presentation at the International Conference in Applied Energy 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Mr Daniel Morales, supported by Dr Pranaynil Saikia, delivered an oral presentation on an accepted academic paper at the 14th International Conference of Applied Energy 2022 (ICAE'22), which took place in Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany during 8 to 11 August 2022. The title of the work was "Optimal Operation of a Public Health Facility considering Energy Storage Retrofits'. The paper was selected to be submitted in an extended form to the journal Applied Energy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://applied-energy.org/icae2022/ |
| Description | Presentation at the International Conference on Electrical Engineering, Computing Science and Automation Control |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Arslan Saleem delivered an oral presentation on an accepted academic paper at the 19th International Conference on Electrical Engineering, Computing Science and Automatic Control (CCE 2022), which took place in CINVESTAV, Mexico City, Mexico during 9 to 11 November 2022. The title of the work was "Modeling and performance evaluation of heat pump water heater systems". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://cce.cinvestav.mx/ |
| Description | Presentation at the Manchester Energy and Electrical Power Systems Symposium (MEEPS 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Following an abstract submission and a pre-selection, Mr Lloyd Corcoran delivered poster presentation at the Manchester Energy and Electrical Power Systems Symposium 2022 (MEEPS'2022). This was held in Dalton Room, Core Technology Facility, in Manchester. The presentation was entitled 'Understanding the Cooling Demand in the UK' and presented initial research results from his PhD studies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Presentation at the Network H+C Annual Conference 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Carlos Ugalde delivered a presentation on 20th September 2023, entitled "Flexibility from cooling and storage" during the Network H+C Annual Conference held in the Institute of Physics (London), on 19th and 20th September. Outputs and ongoing work from Flex-Cool-Store were presented, stimulating further discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/network-hc-annual-conference-tickets-633405943227? |
| Description | Presentation at the Supergen Energy Networks Hub Annual Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | During the Supergen Energy Networks Hub Annual Conference, which took place in Cardiff during the 23rd and 24th November 2022, Mr Lloyd Corcoran delivered a poster presentations entitled 'Understanding the Cooling Demand in the UK'. His work lead to further discussion with other attendees of the conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Presentation at the UKDEA Innovation Showcase Event 2 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Prof Carlos Ugalde delivered the presentation "State-of-charge Estimation of Thermal Batteries for Heating and Cooling Applications" on 2nd November 2022. The presentation introduced a methodology formulated by Cardiff University to estimate the state-of-charge of thermal stores. In the event, 14 members from UKDEA, the UK District Energy Association, presented innovations in the world of district energy to over 70 attendees. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Presentation at the joint 2nd WESC - 7th UKES Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Hector Bastida delivered a poster presentation at the joint 2nd World Energy Storage Conference (WESC) and 7th UK Energy Storage (UKES) Conference. This was a hybrid event which took place in Birmingham, UK, from the 12th to the 14th October 2022. The title of the work was "Effective One-Dimensional Modelling of Latent Heat Thermal Energy Storage Units". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Presentation at the joint 2nd WESC - 7th UKES Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Mr Daniel Morales delivered a poster presentation at the joint 2nd World Energy Storage Conference (WESC) and 7th UK Energy Storage (UKES) Conference. This was a hybrid event which took place in Birmingham, UK, from the 12th to the 14th October 2022. The title of the work was "Dynamic verification of the optimal power dispatch of a public health facility in the UK". Daniel won a 'best poster' award. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Presentation at the joint 2nd WESC - 7th UKES Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Mr Ivan de la Cruz delivered an oral presentation at the joint 2nd World Energy Storage Conference (WESC) and 7th UK Energy Storage (UKES) Conference. This was a hybrid event which took place in Birmingham, UK, from the 12th to the 14th October 2022. The title of the work was "Dimensionless numbers for the characterisation of thermal stratification and their application in 1-D models of hot water tanks". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Presentation to HAMMAR Southwest on cooling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by Mehri Khosravi the the South West branch of the Uk Housing Asset Management Maintenance and Repair Group |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.nhmf.co.uk/files/dmfile/cooling-demand-and-its-status-in-the-uk-energy-policy_mehri-kosr... |
| Description | Presentations at the Supergen Energy Networks Hub Annual Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | During the Supergen Energy Networks Hub Annual Conference, which took place in Cardiff during the 23rd and 24th November 2022, Dr Pranaynil Saikia delivered a presentation at the Early Career Researcher Workshop (23rd November) and a poster presentation to all attendees of the conference the next day (24th November). The title of his work was 'Modelling Cooling Demand in UK Housing Communities'. His work led to further discussion with other attendees colleagues. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | SGN Proposal Workshop - Cardiff/Sitigrid |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Gas Distribution Networks. Collaboration meeting between academia and industry |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | SPEN Net Zero collaboration meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | to inform industrial development |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Science and Tech Advisory Panel (STAP) Npowergrid |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Introductory meeting ahead of the panel |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Scottish Power Energy Networks Challenge Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | industrial engagement |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Scottish Power Energy Networks Challenge Group Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Inform industrial development |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Special Session in IEEE PES PowerTech 2023 Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A Special Session co-led by Prof Carlos Ugalde with Dr Vedran Peric (TUM, Germany) titled "Modeling, operation and control of multi-energy systems" has been accepted to be included at the IEEE PES PowerTech Conference in Belgrade in June 2023. The invited session will feature talks by other leading academics and will reach interested participants in IEEE PES PowerTech --- a leading international conference in power engineering. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://powertech2023.com/ |
| Description | Strategic partnership on power electronics (CSA Catapult and Cardiff University) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Collaboration Meeting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Talk at University of Macau Conference. Smart Energy. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Wu gave a presentation. "Peer to peer energy trading to facilitate the net zero transition" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Tata Steele visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Collaboration Meeting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | UK Hydrogen Centre. Meeting with Ben Burggraaf |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | For research collaboration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | UK US Hydrogen Engagement Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Prof Jianzhong Wu met with the USA representatives for the UK Science and Innovation Network to provide an overview of the Hydrogen Hubs with Prof Tim Mays. Initial areas of collaboration we discussed in the meeting were joint policy impact, the whole system challenge and the steel industry (including linkages with the new US Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs).Next steps include gathering key colleagues from the US and UK to create a small working group to take the relationship forward |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | University of Namibia Hydrogen Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hydrogen research focused meeting with key members of University of Namibia ( including Vice Chancellor) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Visit to Rotherham Hospital |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Dr Muditha Abeysekera, Dr Pranay Saikia, Dr Hector Bastida and Mr Ivan de la Cruz visited Rotherham Hospital on 12 to 14 April 2022. A workshop and a site visit with the Director of Estates and Facilities and the Energy Performance and Contract Manager took place. A discussion on the possible renewable energy technologies to be integrated in the future to the hospital took place. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Visit to Tianjin University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Carlos Ugalde visited Tianjin University on 10th to 12th January 2024 both to attend MC2 project meetings (another EPSRC-funded project) and discuss collaboration opportunities with Tianjin University, NCEEPU, and Tsinghua University. He presented some outputs from Flex-Cool-Store, leading to meaningful discussions with the academic teams. Plans for further collaboration and joint papers are ongoing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Visit to University of Illinois and University of Wyoming |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | For research collaboration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Waste Heat from Cooling Systems Discussion |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with BT to discuss Waste Heat from Cooling Systems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Welsh Future Energy Grid for Net Zero - Expert engagement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Acting as expert advisry capacity for project development |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Welsh Future Grid for Net Zero Project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Energy Systems Catapult to discuss research development. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Workshop on Flexible and Zero Carbon Energy Systems for Data Centres at Cardiff University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The workshop aimed to explore innovative solutions for creating flexible and zero carbon energy systems specifically tailored for data centers(DCs). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Workshops for net zero review with BEIS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Discuss with policy makers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |