Integrated Development of Low-Carbon Energy Systems (IDLES): A Whole-System Paradigm for Creating a National Strategy
Lead Research Organisation:
Imperial College London
Department Name: Energy Futures Lab
Abstract
The long-term evolution of energy systems is set by the investment decisions of very many actors such as up-stream resource companies, power plant operators, network infrastructure providers, vehicle owners, transport system operators and building developers and occupiers. But these decisions are deliberately shaped by markets and incentives that have been designed by local and national governments to achieve policy objectives on energy, air-quality, economic growth and so on. It is clear then that government and businesses need detailed and dependable evidence of what can be achieved, what format of energy system we should aim for, what new technologies need to be encouraged, and how energy systems can form part of an industrial strategy to new goods and services. It is widely accepted that a whole-system view of energy is needed, covering not only multiple energy sectors (gas, heat, electricity and transport fuel) but also the behaviour of individuals and organisations within the energy consuming sectors such as transport and the built environment. This means that modelling energy production, delivery and use in a future integrated system is highly complex and analytically challenging. To provide evidence to government and business on what an optimised future system may look like, one has to rise to these modelling challenges. For electricity systems alone, there are established models that can optimise for security, cost and emissions given some assumptions (and sensitivities) and these have been used to provide policy and business strategy evidence. However, such models do not exist for the complex interactions of integrated systems and not at the level of fine detailed needed to expose particularly difficult operating conditions.
Our vision is to tackle the very challenging modelling required for integrated energy systems by combining multi-physics optimising techno-economic models with machine learning of human behaviour and operational models emerging multi-carrier network and conversion technologies. The direction we wish to take is clear but there are many detailed challenges along the way for which highly innovative solutions will be needed to overcome the hurdles encountered. The programme grant structure enables us to assemble an exceptional team of experts across many disciplines. There are new and exciting opportunities, for instance, to apply machine learning to identify in a quantitative way models of consumer behaviour and responsiveness to incentives that can help explore demand-side flexibility within an integrated energy system.
We have engaged four major partners from complementary sectors of the energy system that will support the programme with significant funding (approximately 35% additional funding) and more importantly engage with us and each other to share insights, challenges, data and case studies. EDF Energy provide the perspective on an energy retail business and access to smart meter trail data. Shell provide insights into the future fuels to be used in transport and building services. National Grid (System Operator) give the perspective of the use of flexibility and new service propositions for efficient system operations. ABB are a provider of data acquisition and control systems and provide industrial perspective of decentralisation of control. ABB have committed to providing substantial equipment and resource to build a verification and demonstration facility for decentralised control. We are also engaging examples of the new entrants, often smaller companies with potentially disruptive technologies and business models, who will engage and share some of their insights.
Our vision is to tackle the very challenging modelling required for integrated energy systems by combining multi-physics optimising techno-economic models with machine learning of human behaviour and operational models emerging multi-carrier network and conversion technologies. The direction we wish to take is clear but there are many detailed challenges along the way for which highly innovative solutions will be needed to overcome the hurdles encountered. The programme grant structure enables us to assemble an exceptional team of experts across many disciplines. There are new and exciting opportunities, for instance, to apply machine learning to identify in a quantitative way models of consumer behaviour and responsiveness to incentives that can help explore demand-side flexibility within an integrated energy system.
We have engaged four major partners from complementary sectors of the energy system that will support the programme with significant funding (approximately 35% additional funding) and more importantly engage with us and each other to share insights, challenges, data and case studies. EDF Energy provide the perspective on an energy retail business and access to smart meter trail data. Shell provide insights into the future fuels to be used in transport and building services. National Grid (System Operator) give the perspective of the use of flexibility and new service propositions for efficient system operations. ABB are a provider of data acquisition and control systems and provide industrial perspective of decentralisation of control. ABB have committed to providing substantial equipment and resource to build a verification and demonstration facility for decentralised control. We are also engaging examples of the new entrants, often smaller companies with potentially disruptive technologies and business models, who will engage and share some of their insights.
Planned Impact
The use of a whole-system, or integrated, paradigm for the planning and operation of the UK's future energy systems has potential for very large savings in the cost of providing decarbonised energy and potential to bring forward new hardware and data technologies for the realisation of such systems. So, on top of disseminating high quality research findings to the research community we will pursue engagement with industrial and other partners to create societal, policy and industrial impact.
The powerful set of new tools and methods for integrated energy system design and analysis will be used to create policy-relevant evidence to bodies such as the National Infrastructure Commission, BIES, Ofgem and local authorities on the opportunity to make investment in energy infrastructure through smart and system-wide optimisation. There will also be detailed conclusions on the efficacy of various market designs and interventions to deliver the investment needed. We have projects within the programme aimed specifically at comparative analysis of incremental versus integrated development and at the design of markets and incentives. We will invite BEIS and GLA representation onto our steering group to obtain their guidance on achieving policy impact and we will disseminate through briefings, workshops and formal submissions of policy evidence.
We will also identify the "system value" and the use-cases for key energy technologies that integrating across energy carriers and/or provide flexibility in operation and control. This is relevant to individual companies and is valuable evidence to shape the UK's Industrial Strategy in the pursuit of new and expanded business opportunities. Our findings in this area will be propagated through a series of workshops with stakeholders and the creation of roadmaps for emerging technologies and business innovations. The roadmaps will be published as Energy Futures Lab briefing papers and promoted through our launch events and news feeds. The newly separated System Operator function within National Grid has a direct interest, on behalf of the whole system, of identifying the control and operational functions to secure the future energy system and they are a further delivery partner here.
We will work with our project partners to exploit the technology opportunities. We have secured four major project partners at this time (ABB, EDF Energy, National Grid and Shell) and are gathering examples of SMEs with disruptive technologies. As well as providing direct support for the programme, our partners will provide insights and support for moving to demonstration of innovations in business models, data/control services and asset technologies. We have already identified with ABB the need to demonstrate and verify decentralised control in a real-time environment and have agreed to work together to construct such a facility.
We foresee a major opportunity in new approaches for using demand modelling to offer new service propositions to consumers. EDF Energy is our partner in the energy retail sector and we will work with them, and through them with the Energy System Catapult, with SME partners and Ofgem to promote these opportunities. With Shell, we will work to disseminate the role of alternative fuels in heat and transport.
The fundamental research in system-of-systems modelling, in demand modelling and in will be published in journals to create academic impact. We have deliberately included Early Career Researchers among our investigator team and assigned roles that will help develop their careers through leadership opportunities. We believe that the team of post-doctoral researchers working on this challenging cross-disciplinary set of problems will be a remarkable pool of talent of the UK.
The powerful set of new tools and methods for integrated energy system design and analysis will be used to create policy-relevant evidence to bodies such as the National Infrastructure Commission, BIES, Ofgem and local authorities on the opportunity to make investment in energy infrastructure through smart and system-wide optimisation. There will also be detailed conclusions on the efficacy of various market designs and interventions to deliver the investment needed. We have projects within the programme aimed specifically at comparative analysis of incremental versus integrated development and at the design of markets and incentives. We will invite BEIS and GLA representation onto our steering group to obtain their guidance on achieving policy impact and we will disseminate through briefings, workshops and formal submissions of policy evidence.
We will also identify the "system value" and the use-cases for key energy technologies that integrating across energy carriers and/or provide flexibility in operation and control. This is relevant to individual companies and is valuable evidence to shape the UK's Industrial Strategy in the pursuit of new and expanded business opportunities. Our findings in this area will be propagated through a series of workshops with stakeholders and the creation of roadmaps for emerging technologies and business innovations. The roadmaps will be published as Energy Futures Lab briefing papers and promoted through our launch events and news feeds. The newly separated System Operator function within National Grid has a direct interest, on behalf of the whole system, of identifying the control and operational functions to secure the future energy system and they are a further delivery partner here.
We will work with our project partners to exploit the technology opportunities. We have secured four major project partners at this time (ABB, EDF Energy, National Grid and Shell) and are gathering examples of SMEs with disruptive technologies. As well as providing direct support for the programme, our partners will provide insights and support for moving to demonstration of innovations in business models, data/control services and asset technologies. We have already identified with ABB the need to demonstrate and verify decentralised control in a real-time environment and have agreed to work together to construct such a facility.
We foresee a major opportunity in new approaches for using demand modelling to offer new service propositions to consumers. EDF Energy is our partner in the energy retail sector and we will work with them, and through them with the Energy System Catapult, with SME partners and Ofgem to promote these opportunities. With Shell, we will work to disseminate the role of alternative fuels in heat and transport.
The fundamental research in system-of-systems modelling, in demand modelling and in will be published in journals to create academic impact. We have deliberately included Early Career Researchers among our investigator team and assigned roles that will help develop their careers through leadership opportunities. We believe that the team of post-doctoral researchers working on this challenging cross-disciplinary set of problems will be a remarkable pool of talent of the UK.
Organisations
- Imperial College London (Lead Research Organisation)
- Cisco Systems (Netherlands) (Collaboration)
- NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- Daedalus Environmental (Collaboration)
- IBM (Collaboration)
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Collaboration)
- Equinor (Collaboration)
- Government of the UK (Collaboration)
- West Sussex County Council (Collaboration)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Collaboration)
- SUNSWAP LTD (Collaboration)
- ROYAL BOROUGH OF GREENWICH (Collaboration)
- University of Cyprus (Collaboration)
- Onzo Ltd (Collaboration)
- EDF Energy (United Kingdom) (Collaboration)
- Upside Energy Ltd (Collaboration)
- Green Giraffe (Collaboration)
- Element Energy (Collaboration)
- Greater London Authority (Collaboration)
- National Grid UK (Collaboration)
- InformedActions (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (Collaboration)
- Mitsubishi Electric (Collaboration)
- University of Texas at Austin (Collaboration)
- ABB Group (Collaboration)
- KiWi Power (Collaboration)
- Ecocentric Energy (Collaboration)
- University of Toronto (Collaboration)
Publications
Acha S
(2022)
Modelling UK electricity regional costs for commercial buildings
in Energy and Buildings
Ademovic Tahirovic A
(2022)
Heterogeneous network flow and Petri nets characterize multilayer complex networks.
in Scientific reports
Adun H
(2023)
Ambitious near-term decarbonization and direct air capture deployment in Latin America's net-zero goal
in Energy for Sustainable Development
Al Kindi A
(2022)
Thermo-economic analysis of steam accumulation and solid thermal energy storage in direct steam generation concentrated solar power plants
in Energy Conversion and Management
Al Kindi A
(2022)
Thermo-economic assessment of flexible nuclear power plants in future low-carbon electricity systems: Role of thermal energy storage
in Energy Conversion and Management
Al Kindi A.A.
(2020)
Optimal system configuration and operation strategies of flexible hybrid nuclear-solar power plants
in ECOS 2020 - Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Efficiency, Cost, Optimization, Simulation and Environmental Impact of Energy Systems
Description | Our whole-system model has been used to investigate optimal configuration for a net-zero electricity system in 2035 in compliance with the 6th Carbon Budget. Optimisation has been considered under a variety of assumptions on cost and performance of technologies. We have concluded that: (1) The volume of offshore wind required for net-zero in the UK is around 100 GW which is two-and-half times larger than the government's target of 40 GW for 2030 and is required only 5 years later. This conclusion is robust to variations in the cost of various technologies (2) If the build rate of wind implied above needs to be moderated, one could add a further 10 GW of nuclear and 18.5 GW of solar PV. This would avoid building 24 GW of offshore wind but increase system costs (and unit electricity costs) by about 3%. (3) Alongside offshore wind, very large volumes of energy storage are required, about 100 GW, which is a hundredfold increase on capacity today. A White Paper expanding on these findings was launched on 8th June 2021 and findings on nuclear energy were also summarised in an Energy Futures Lab blog-post. A comprehensive database of performance and costs of various energy technologies and components has been developed by our technology modelling colleagues and published to the open-access data repository, Zenodo. It is derived from market research, industrial applications, and other academic research (in collaboration with other academic institutions). The database, which is being continuously updated with more technologies and data, provides efficiency and price information for commercially available air-source and ground-source heat pumps, gas and electric boilers, water-storage cylinders, combined heat and power systems, solar-thermal collector and PV panels as well as compressors and heat exchangers. An interesting analysis funded through this award disentangled the complex interplay of policies and events that led to the drop in Great Britain's carbon emissions from electricity generation between 2012 and 2019. A key message from a case study by Dr Iain Staffell and Professor Richard Green is that reducing power sector CO2 emissions by two-thirds required a broad, multi-faceted approach. Closure of coal power stations, investment in renewable generation, raising the cost of coal and carbon emissions and improving energy efficiency (to reduce demand) all contributed significantly. The work is available to read, open access, in "The Contribution of Taxes, Subsidies and Regulations to British Electricity Decarbonisation" (https://www.eprg.group.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2105-Text.pdf). Gatherings several strands of work from across IDLES we published a Briefing Paper in October 2021 on the impact of Covid-19 on the energy system. The paper analyses how electricity demand changed at both household and national levels during lockdown and evaluates the measures that were taken by the ESO to balance the grid and maintain a stable supply during lockdown. Valuable insights were gained into how working-from-home policies, electric vehicles, and low-carbon grids can be implemented, incentivised, and managed effectively, which are findings relevant for running a net-zero energy system in the future. |
Exploitation Route | The results noted above from the whole-system model and on the impact of Covid-19 on the energy system are published in the form of a White Paper/Briefing Paper directed at makers of energy policy. The datasets behind the whole-system modelling were also made available. Both papers were introduced via a launch event and, for the Covid-19 paper, an accompanying short documentary was also released. The open-access database of performance and costs of energy technologies, mentioned earlier, has so far had 1026 downloads. The library contains useful information for energy system and technology modellers in their efforts to capture the technoeconomic characteristics of different technology options, minimise uncertainties and suggest reliable system and technology design strategies. The work attributing the drop in Great Britain's carbon emissions from electricity generation to certain policies has been presented at five international seminars and also discussed with contacts at BEIS, who are potentially interested in applying the methodology to work out how much carbon is saved by different interventions. Sharing their expertise through membership of external advisory boards - for example Prof Goran Strbac appointed as a panel member for BEIS/OFGEM Review of the Electricity Engineering Standards - is another route for taking our research outcomes forward. |
Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy Energy |
URL | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/energy-futures-lab/idles/publications/ |
Description | The investigators and their teams use their findings and expertise to inform public debate and policy on the future of energy via many channels. For example Professor Tim Green was interviewed by several media outlets during the investigation into the major power outages in August 2019. Dr Iain Staffell's analysis of the impacts on power systems and markets during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic was also quoted widely across the media. In the 'Influence on Policy, Practice, Patients and the Public' section we have also noted examples of academics providing evidence to government and regulatory consultations and committees, which have led to improvements in public service delivery and the regulatory environment. This includes responses to the BEIS Committee's inquiry into Decarbonisation of the power sector (2022) and the Review of Electricity Market Arrangements (2022). A substantial amount of interest emerged around the publication in Nature Energy on offshore wind auctions (Jansen, M., Staffell, I., Kitzing, L. et al. Offshore wind competitiveness in mature markets without subsidy. Nat Energy 5, 614-622 (2020)). As well as being picked up in over 100 news items and gaining impressive traction on social media, the paper has been cited in the policy arena; being used as evidence in the German parliament and referenced in a report prepared for the European Commission on recommendations for financing offshore wind projects. The findings also influenced the discussion following the UK government's announcement for 40 GW of offshore wind, with the authors quoted responding to the announcement in The Independent, The Conversation and The Register. The launch of the White Paper "Net-zero GB electricity: cost-optimal generation and storage mix" was attended by close to 200 people online on the day and has been viewed 480 times on our YouTube channel. BusinessGreen wrote an article on the White Paper and the story featured prominently in their newsletter on the day and rose to the top of their website's 'Most Read' list. The Energyst also featured it. As a result of the report, Dr Marko Aunedi was invited to participate in an 'Energy Futures Group' lunchtime discussion. This is a monthly meeting Chaired by Dieter Helm, to which the Treasury, BEIS, Ofgem, CCC and key companies come along. Marko was also interviewed by the E&T magazine, the publication of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, about the role of nuclear energy in the future energy system. The White Paper was quoted in the resulting article, which was released online and in the printed magazine and has a member circulation of ~140,000 (generally professional engineers working in all areas of engineering and technology industry). In September 2023, the IDLES Programme hosted its final official dissemination event at Imperial College London that brought together around 100 academics, policymakers and industry representatives to discuss the programme's findings. In early 2024 IDLES investigators started working with DESNZ, using their models to explore alternative designs for large scale hydrogen storage and transport systems and the evolution of this infrastructure. A further useful mechanism for communicating our findings is the podcast series "Low Carbon Conversations", which is the creation of one of the IDLES postgraduate students. It proved successful online, particularly given the number of energy podcasts available, with over 4500 total plays/downloads across the whole series of five episodes. It is intended to be very accessible, and each episode features an interview with a researcher discussing a different aspect of the energy transition and how their research is overcoming the challenge. |
First Year Of Impact | 2019 |
Sector | Energy,Government, Democracy and Justice |
Impact Types | Economic Policy & public services |
Description | Beyond batteries and pumped-hydro for large-scale energy storage |
Geographic Reach | Europe |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
Impact | To provide overview and opportunities of large-scale storage technolgies. |
Description | Contribution by Iain Staffell to the Offshore Wind Outlook 2019, a World Energy Outlook special report from the IEA. |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
URL | https://www.iea.org/reports/offshore-wind-outlook-2019 |
Description | Dr Malte Jansen submission to BEIS Consultation "Enabling a high renewable, net zero electricity system: call for evidence" |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/enabling-a-high-renewable-net-zero-electricity-system-ca... |
Description | Hydrogen Advisory Council |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Description | Imperial College team, led by Prof G Strbac, has developed a novel and advanced Holistic Network Design tool to support offshore wind deployment for net zero - this is used by National Grid Electricity System Operator for coordinated strategic planning of onshore and offshore network infrastructures. |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | National Grid Electricity System Operator published core report that describes the application of the Holistic Network Design (HND) tool for optimal integration of offshore wind for 2030. The Pathway to 2030 Holistic Network Design (HND) is a major step for the UK in delivering low costs, clean energy from offshore wind. This model is used to set out a single, integrated design that supports the large-scale delivery of electricity generated from offshore wind, taking power to where it's needed across Great Britain. The HND facilitates the delivery of the Government ambition of 50GW of offshore wind to be connected by 2030. This is a first step towards strategic network planning that is critical for delivering affordable, clean and secure power, as we journey towards our net zero emission energy future. |
Description | OFGEM RII0-2 Challenge Group |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Impact | Ofgem established the RIIO-2 Challenge Group with the objective to provide challenge to the energy network companies on their Business Plans for RIIO-2 and to Ofgem on their framework for RIIO-2, on behalf of existing and future consumers. Independent report was delivered to OFGEM. |
URL | https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/system/files/docs/2020/01/riio-2_challenge_group_independent_report_for_ofg... |
Description | Prof G Strbac has been a member of the Expert Panel of the European Technology & Innovation Platform (ETIP) and Smart Networks for Energy Transition (SNET). He developed three out of nine HLUCs (High-Level Use Cases), that are included in the EU energy decarbonisation agenda. |
Geographic Reach | Europe |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | The proposed topics are now on the EU agenda regarding the future research and demonstration project. The key contribution was related to providing fundamental guidance regarding the research / demonstration topics that should be included in the EU research calls. Work was specifically focused on specific Priority Project Concepts, realising three out of nine HLUCs (High-Level Use Cases) |
Description | Prof Goran Strbac appointed as Lead Author in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group III |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Impact | This will provide evidence to all governments related to the climate change mitigation, assessing methods for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. It is expected that work will be the core for the development of national and International policy frameworks to ensure cost effective reduction of carbon emissions at the global level. |
Description | Prof Goran Strbac appointed as a member of SAPEA - "Science Advice for Policy by European Academies" Working Group member of "A systemic approach to the energy transition in Europe" |
Geographic Reach | Europe |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Impact | Informing the EU about many possible pathways towards a carbon-neutral future - it is demonstrated that it can be achieved by 2050, but this requires urgent action. This is the central conclusion of SAPEA's evidence review report on the energy transition, and the corresponding Scientific Opinion of the European Commission's Group of Chief Scientific Advisors. |
Description | Prof Goran Strbac appointed as a panel member for Review of the Electricity Engineering Standards |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Impact | UK industrial strategy has articulated a grand challenge of clean growth: realising our decarbonisation objectives, including electrification of transport sector and maintaining reliable, secure and resilient electricity supplies at minimum cost. A key part of this is delivering an efficient electricity network within a whole electricity system, which maintains high levels of reliability and security of supply in Great Britain at least cost to consumers. In order to unlock benefits, BEIS and Ofgem launched a review of electricity system standards, in which Prof Goran Strbac was a member of the Independent Panel. The objective of the review was to consider how the planning and, where appropriate, operational and investment engineering standards should be updated in the face of our changing electricity system, whilst maintaining security of supply to consumers. A report was produced in Dec 2020: "Electricity Engineering Standards Review". |
URL | https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/9436... |
Description | Prof Nilay Shah gave evidence on the role of hydrogen in achieving net zero |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
Description | Prof Tim Green gave evidence to the inquiry "How will batteries and fuel cells help to decarbonise electricity grids?" |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/event/4440/formal-meeting-oral-evidence-session/ |
Description | Professor Goran Strbac appointed as a member of BEIS Advisory Panel of Alternative Energy Markets project. |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Impact | As a result of the reformed price signals driven by the Alternative Energy Market concept, this will incentivise and enable consumers to use energy in a more efficient, less carbon-intense way and for suppliers to develop products and services that support cost effective energy system decarbonisation. UK is the international leader in the development of Alternative Energy Market concepts. . |
Description | Professor Goran Strbac appointed as a member of the Joint EU Programme on Energy Systems Integration of the European Energy Research Alliance |
Geographic Reach | Europe |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Impact | The Joint Programme in Energy Systems Integration seeks to bring together research strengths across Europe to optimise EU energy system, in particular by benefiting from the synergies between heating, cooling, electricity, renewable energy and fuel pathways at all scales. The energy elements of the water and transport system are also included, as well as the data and control network that enables the optimisation. The Joint Programme in Energy Systems Integration is designed to develop the technical and economic framework that governments and industries will need to build the future efficient and sustainable European energy system. It is fully aligned with the recently published SET Plan Integrated Roadmap and potential impact include increased reliability and performance, minimisation of cost and environmental impacts and, in particular, increased penetration of renewable energy sources. This is informing the EU about the development of future energy research projects. |
Description | Professor Goran Strbac appointed as a member of the Open Networks Challenge Group of Energy Networks Association |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Impact | Given the objectives of Ofgem and Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), the Challenge Group provides challenge on policy and regulatory progresses to ensure that the programme remains ambitious in delivery and implementation of key proposals related to development of framework for flexibility. The Challenge Group is giving stakeholders an increased role in challenging and shaping flexibility proposals and ensuring that the programme is sufficiently ambitious in its scope and is delivering change at pace. |
Description | Professor Richard Green submission to BEIS Consultation "Enabling a high renewable, net zero electricity system: call for evidence" |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/enabling-a-high-renewable-net-zero-electricity-system-ca... |
Description | Provided expert review of International Renewable Energy Agency's policy brief on demand-side flexibility |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
Impact | Better understanding of the role of demand-side flexibility for the energy transition. |
URL | https://www.irena.org/publications/2019/Dec/Demand-side-flexibility-for-power-sector-transformation |
Description | Response to BEIS Committee's Inquiry on Decarbonisation of the Power Sector |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/work/6717/decarbonisation-of-the-power-sector/publications/ |
Description | Specialist Advisor, House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/23165/documents/169430/default/ |
Description | Submission to the call for evidence on the Review of Electricity Market Arrangements |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
Description | The Flexibility in Great Britain - project analysed the system-level value of deploying flexibility across the heat, transport, industry and power sectors in Great Britain to provide a robust evidence-base on the role and value of flexibility in the net zero carbon energy system, to drive decision making across the energy sector and government to create technology, policies and business models to realise this vision. |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
Impact | Key findings of the analysis are: - Embedding greater flexibility across the entire energy system will reduce the cost of achieving net zero for all consumers while assuring energy security. - Investing in flexibility is a no-regrets decision as it has the potential to deliver material net savings of up to £16.7bn per annum across all scenarios analysed in 2050. - A more flexible system will accelerate the benefits of decarbonisation supported by decentralisation and digitalisation. - To maximise the benefits of flexibility, households and businesses should play an active role in the development and operation of the country's future energy system as energy use for transport, heat and appliances becomes more integrated. - Policymakers should preserve existing flexibility options and act now to maximise future flexibility, such as by building it into 'smart' appliances or building standards. This provided fundamental evidence to BEIS, Ofgem, Climate Change Committee, Innovate UK, National Infrastructure Commission, related to the role and value of flexibility supporting cost effective decarbonisation. Some of the key aspect of flexibility are now included in the Ofgem regulatory framework RIIO ED2 (Revenue = Incentives + Innovation + Outputs; for: Electricity Distribution 2). |
URL | https://www.carbontrust.com/resources/flexibility-in-great-britain |
Description | 2nd Special Exploratory Research Grant Call on Climate Change |
Amount | £38,412 (GBP) |
Funding ID | 8907 |
Organisation | Private Enterprise Development in Low Income Countries (PEDL) |
Sector | Multiple |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2022 |
End | 03/2023 |
Description | Adoption and use of smart plugs for demand side management in India (The King Climate Action Initiative) |
Amount | $75,000 (USD) |
Funding ID | J-PAL GR-1719 |
Organisation | JPAL - The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab |
Sector | Private |
Country | United States |
Start | 03/2021 |
End | 09/2022 |
Description | Data-driven exploration of the carbon emissions impact of grid energy storage deployment and dispatch |
Amount | £1,007,581 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/W027321/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2022 |
End | 10/2024 |
Description | Energy Demand Research Centre (EDRC) |
Amount | £15,507,720 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/Y010078/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 06/2023 |
End | 06/2028 |
Description | International Growth Centre (IGC) Early-Career Researcher Call |
Amount | £19,994 (GBP) |
Funding ID | 22038 |
Organisation | International Growth Centre (IGC) |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2022 |
End | 04/2023 |
Description | Ocean-REFuel - Ocean Renewable Energy Fuels |
Amount | £939,296 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/W005158/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 12/2021 |
End | 11/2026 |
Description | Strategic Priorities Fund, call on Evidence-based policy |
Amount | £19,730 (GBP) |
Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
Department | Research England |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 12/2020 |
End | 03/2021 |
Title | 1-kWe organic Rankine cycle (ORC) functional prototype. |
Description | The ORC testing facility is made of a rotary-vane pump, brazed-plate evaporator and condenser units, optional recuperator and superheater, and a 1-kW scroll expander. Powered by an 18-kWth oil heater, the ORC prototype, operated with refrigerants (HFCs, HFOs, hydrocarbons) as working fluids, converts heat into electrical power, rejected via Joule heating in a resistive load bank. Pressure, temperature and mass flow (Coriolis) sensors are used to monitor the time-resolved performance. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Journal publication and upcoming investigation of the ORC dynamics and advanced real-time control. |
Title | 30-kWe expander testing facility |
Description | The expander testing facility is made of a 30-kW two-stage intercooled reciprocating compressor, a heat-rejection heat exchanger, the expander test section, and a heat-addition heat exchanger. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | This apparatus will be used (i) to investigate the performance of various positive-displacement expanders whilst operating with different working fluids, namely light gases (e.g., Nitrogen) and refrigerants (e.g., R245fa), (ii) to study components degradation, and (iii) to investigate two-phase expansion. |
Title | Multi-fidelity energy conversion and storage technologies modelling. |
Description | The proposed research aims of IDLES project 2 are to improve the representation of technologies for energy conversion, storage and transport in integrated energy systems modelling, with detailed assessment of cost/efficiency curves, part-load performance, investment and operational costs, trade-offs between cost-efficiency-flexibility at both component and device level. The aim of the methodology is to increase the accuracy of energy systems optimization tools and related results, with a multi-fidelity representation of uncertainties in technologies modelling, and assist manufacturers in optimal design of single components. The research is carried out in strict collaboration with IDLES project 1, where the high spatial and temporal resolution models are developed, and IDLES project 5, focused on robust and stochastic optimization of complex energy systems. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | The results of IDLES project 2 will be used to inform whole integrated energy system modelling of IDLES project 1, and tailor stochastic optimization tools proposed in IDLES project 5. |
Title | Activity-based Microsimulator of Mobility and Energy Demand |
Description | A prototype agent and activity-based microsimulation model that can be used to simulate the spatio-temporal mobility and energy demand patterns of the population of interest. The simulator consists of three primary components: population synthesiser, activity synthesiser and energy (currently electricity) demand simulator. The population synthesiser creates digital representations of the desired agents, either purely synthetic or consistent with observed population (e.g. census). The activity synthesiser in turn simulates the desired representation of time use (activity participation), given parameters set by the user, e.g. day of the week or weather, which ensures accurate reflection of people's in-and out-of-home activities. The resulting activity patterns, alongside attributes of the households, are fed into the energy demand simulator that forecasts energy consumption profiles with an arbitrary level of spatial (household, neighbourhood, district, etc.) and temporal (minute, hourly, etc.) resolution. The demand simulator provides a means of comprehensively representing scenarios of interest along three dimensions of set-up: (1) Population: to reflect (changes to) population composition, household attributes, employment, affluence, residential conditions, (electric) vehicle ownership, or (smart) appliance possession; (2) Activity: to reflect (shifts in) activity timing, preference for in-, out-of-home or virtual activity participation, flexible working arrangements, co-participation in activities; (3) Energy policy: to reflect (changes in) energy tariffs, pricing as well as per-activity energy consumption under particular circumstances of the household. The current model is calibrated using the 2014-15 UK Time Use Data, University of Oxford's Project METER. |
Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | Writing up a policy briefing paper based on the implementation of this model. |
Title | Cascaded latent heat store models and packed-bed sensible/latent heat store models for pumped-thermal energy storage |
Description | These models are developed using PDE's integration and a numerical solver. The models include a conjugate description of heat transfer and thermos-economic optimization can be performed using these models. |
Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | These models are developed using PDE's integration and a numerical solver. The models include a conjugate description of heat transfer and thermos-economic optimization can be performed using these models. |
Title | Compressed-air energy storage model |
Description | Thermodynamic and component-costing optimisation model of compressed-air energy storage systems. Can be used to optimise system design and operation to maximise efficiency and minimise cost. |
Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | It was presented at the SDEWES 2022 conference, a journal publication is currently under review. It will also be used for a comparison of different thermo-economic storage systems. |
Title | Database of heat and electricity storage systems |
Description | Database of developing and mature heat and electricity storage systems including key performance indicators which can be used for whole energy system models. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | Will be used in energy system modelling tasks. |
Title | Database of heat pump and CHP performance/costs/operational characteristics |
Description | Database of techno-economic key parameters of a range of energy conversion and storage technologies, to be used in energy systems modelling and optimization |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | The database collects a large number of techno-economic parameters and cost/performance curves for current and future energy systems technologies. |
Title | Databases of costs and performance of commercially available heating products and heat and electricity storage systems |
Description | The database of costs and performance of commercially available heating technologies (air-source heat pumps, ground-source heat pumps, combined heat and power devices, gas boilers, electric heaters, fuel cells, hot water storage tanks, PV panels, solar thermal collectors, PVT modules) is constantly being developed and updated. These aim to capture the influence of key factors such as scale, working fluid, environmental conditions/weather, single-component and combined-cycle characteristics. The database extends to include key performance indicators associated with various types of heat and electricity storage systems. These can be used in whole-energy system models. |
Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | The proposed databases allow predicting the costs and performance of current and future energy system technologies, their integration strategies and optimal operation/sizing. |
Title | Databases of costs and performance of commercially available heating products and heat and electricity storage systems |
Description | The database of costs and performance of commercially available heating technologies (air-source heat pumps, ground-source heat pumps, combined heat and power devices, gas boilers, electric heaters, fuel cells, hot water storage tanks, PV panels, solar thermal collectors, PVT modules) is constantly being developed and updated. Version 1.02 is now available in the open-access platform of Zenodo. The databases capture the key factors (e.g., scale, working fluid, environmental conditions, components) of different heating technologies. The databases also involve key performance indicators for heat and electricity storage systems. |
Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Databases capture the costs and performance of current and future energy system technologies, which means their value in energy systems can be identified. The data has been used for many scientific publications. |
Title | Enhanced Project METER Database |
Description | The project METER data was collected by the University of Oxford, Environmental Change Institute, to understand energy consumption at the household level, as a function of the socioeconomics, the activity-travel patterns, the household appliance use etc. The Urban Systems Lab research group at Imperial College London have access to this data through a collaboration with the project METER team, and have created an enhanced database (including meteorological data and energy tariff data) that can used to statistically model energy demand at a final temporal scale. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | The database was fundamental in the development of our prototype energy demand simulator, and in the paper published through Procedia Computer Science. |
Title | Enhanced UK Time Use Survey data |
Description | The UK Time Use Survey (2015) data contains raw data on the activities reported by a sample of individuals. Our research team have undertaken significant processing of this data to turn it into activity episodes by purpose, location (in-home, out-of-home, during travel), and with/without use of ICTs, as well as adding other secondary data such as meteorological records. This data is useful for analysis of activity travel patterns of individuals and trade-offs between these. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | This data is central to the development of our prototype activity-based and agent-based mobility and energy demand simulator, that can model the implications of increased work from home or other forms of virtualisation of activities. |
Title | Gridlington API |
Description | The Gridlington energy demand simulator has been implemented as an application programming interface (API) on a remote server and interfacing with electricity grid model on OPAL-RT simulator. |
Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | At the IDLES Conference in November 2022 (please see the entry under "Engagement activities"), the energy demand simulator was demonstrated to around 100 academics, policymakers and industry representatives, highlighting the use of demand side response in managing an electricity system. |
Title | HEATDesalination - Case-study lowest-cost optimisation results |
Description | Optimisation results for the lowest lifetime cost system consisting of solar photovoltaic (PV), hybrid photovoltaic-thermal (PV-T) and solar-thermal collectors alongside battery and hot-water storage systems for meeting the electrical and thermal (hot-water) needs of three multi-effect distillation (MED) plants. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://zenodo.org/record/7801892 |
Title | Heat pump model |
Description | Spatially-lumped, steady-state electricity-driven and hydrogen-drive heat pump thermodynamic and component-costing models |
Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Thermodynamic and component-costing heat pump models of electricity- and hydrogen-driven heat pumps. Can be used compare electricity- and heat-driven options both from a thermoeconomic and a whole-energy system perspective. |
Title | Heating sector model |
Description | Whole-system model of the UK heating sector, designed to be integrated with other electricity system models. The model will include a comprehensive representation of heating technologies as different scales, which is informed by various thermo-economic technology models. Domestic, commercial and industrial demand will be considered and technology portfolio and dispatch schedules will be optimised. |
Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | It will be used for multiple case studies on optimal pathways for the decarbonisation of heating and to assess different policy measures that can support the transition. |
Title | Integrated working fluid and process optimisation model of organic Rankine cycles |
Description | Lumped, steady-state model of a non-recuperated organic Rankine cycle. The model calculates the performance and the investment costs of a given system. A MINLP optimizer is used to design the optimal system for a given set of operating conditions. A CAMD approach is applied to optimize the organic working fluid. |
Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | A journal publication is currently being prepared. |
Title | Multi-fidelity energy conversion and storage technologies modelling |
Description | Comprehensive organic Rankine cycle (ORC) and heat pump models have been extended with a focus on novel low-GWP working fluids. Heat-pump characteristics have been integrated within whole-energy system model frameworks to evaluate the system impact of different designs. Furthermore, detailed pumped-thermal electricity storage (PTES) system models were created and an evaluation of different system configurations and storage options (packed-bed, molten-salt, ) has been performed. Other technologies including solar thermal collectors, PV systems and thermal storages were also modelled. |
Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | The results of this project will be used to inform whole integrated energy system modelling of other IDLES projects and provide evidence for the future evolution and selection of energy technologies. |
Title | Multi-fidelity representation of heat pumps, CHP systems and energy storage technologies |
Description | Accurate multi-fidelity models of heat pumps, energy storage and CHP technologies, able to capture the influence of key factors and parameters such as the effect of scale, alternative working fluids, environmental conditions/weather, single components and combined-cycle characteristics. |
Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | The proposed model allows predicting the costs and performance of current and future energy system technologies, their integration strategies and optimal operation/sizing. |
Title | Non-residential electricity demand dataset |
Description | Processing of non-residential electricity demand dataset (raw meter data concerning the consumption of electricity and gas on various premises of West Sussex County Council, including schools, offices and libraries.) from West Sussex County Council (WSCC). The IDLES team was able to convert the data into more usable form and the dataset is now ready for more advanced modelling purposes. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Potential impact for WSCC and local authorities to realize energy efficiencies. Potential to augment existing IDLES demand modelling methodologies and further analysis. |
Title | Object-oriented reduced-order dynamic model of reciprocating-piston devices |
Description | The reciprocating-piston model is a Matlab-written dynamic lumped-mass model that explicitly accounts for instantaneous loss mechanisms, i.e., pressure losses through intake/exhaust valves, in-cylinder gas-to-wall conjugate heat transfer, mass leakage past the piston rings and friction losses. Performance with in-cylinder two-phase flows (notably liquid-spray injection) can also be predicted. |
Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Large number of publications (5 conference papers and 3 journal papers so far). |
Title | Policy choices and outcomes for offshore wind auctions globally - Supplementary Data |
Description | This is the dataset to the academic paper with the title: "Policy choices and outcomes for offshore wind auctions globally" Please cite the dataset as follows: Jansen,M.; Beiter, P.;Riepin, I. Müsgens, Felix; Juarez Guajardo-Fajardo, Victor, Staffell, I.; Bulder, B.; Kitzing, L. (2022) Policy choices and outcomes for offshore wind auctions globally. Energy Policy. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2022.113000 |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://zenodo.org/record/4672682 |
Title | Pumped thermal electricity storage lumped-capacity model |
Description | This dynamic reduced-order model predicts the thermodynamic part-load performance of a reversible Joule/Brayton cycle used as an electricity storage technology, reversible Joule-Brayton cycle engine, where energy is stored as sensible heat in hot and cold thermal stores, while the temperature difference is achieved through gas compression and expansion processes. |
Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Conference paper and upcoming journal publications. |
Title | Solar thermal and PV models |
Description | Models of solar thermal collectors and PV modules. Based on weather data (temperature, irradiation, wind), losses and available output are calculated. The solar thermal model also includes storage tanks and heat demand. It is used to analyse the performance of various different collectors and modules, and to extract simplified correlations which can then be implemented in whole-energy system models. |
Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | It allows us to assess the value of various solar technologies for the decarbonisation of energy systems. Data and correlations are used in multiple whole-energy system models. |
Title | Solar thermal and PV models |
Description | Models of solar thermal collectors and PV modules. Based on weather data (temperature, irradiation, wind), losses and available output are calculated. The solar thermal model also includes storage tanks and heat demand. It is used to analyse the performance of various different collectors and modules, and to extract simplified correlations which can then be implemented in whole-energy system models. |
Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | It allows us to assess the value of various solar technologies for the decarbonisation of energy systems. Data and correlations will be used in multiple whole-energy system models. |
Title | Spatially-lumped, steady-state heat pump thermodynamic and component-costing model, as well as data-driven CHP and district heating models |
Description | Thermodynamic and component-costing model of heat pump includes low-GWP working fluids. Can be used to estimate the cost and performance of air-air, air-water, water-air or water-water heat pump systems. Data-driven CHP and district heating models can be used to estimate their technoeconomic potential and compare it to those of small- and large-scale heat pumps. |
Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Other researchers have used these models to capture the cost and performance characteristics of these technologies in their whole-energy system models. |
Title | The future of coal investment, trade and stranded assets |
Description | Dataset to support the publication "The future of coal investment, trade and stranded assets" |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://zenodo.org/record/4629990 |
Title | Thermodynamic optimisation model for determination of efficient choices for a variety of technical parameters of a nuclear power plant coupled with thermal energy storage system and secondary power generators |
Description | Computational model of optimising the cycle thermal efficiency of a primary steam Rankine cycle efficiency of a nuclear power plant coupled with thermal energy storage and secondary steam Rankine cycle systems was developed. The model includes consideration of part-load operation conditions such as the variation of the steam turbine isentropic efficiency during off-design conditions (i.e., thermal energy storage charging phase). The model outputs are then used as inputs in a whole-system model to appreciate the benefits of installing and operating the flexible nuclear power plant in the UK's future low-carbon electricity system. |
Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | The work based on this model won the 16th SDEWES best paper prize, and led to submission of an article publication in an international journal (Energy Conversion and Management). |
Title | USL Heating Survey - Wave 1 |
Description | Revealed preference survey of 900 homeowners across England, with details of the current heating systems in their home and their utilisation, as well as general attitudes and preferences towards the low carbon heating transition. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | The data is still under analysis, with a student project underway. |
Title | Whole-energy system model |
Description | Whole-system model of the UK heating, electricity and hydrogen sectors. The model includes a comprehensive representation of technologies as different scales, which is informed by various thermo-economic technology models. Domestic, commercial and industrial demand is considered and technology portfolio and dispatch schedules are optimised. |
Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | It is used for multiple case studies on optimal pathways for the decarbonisation of energy systems and to assess different policy measures that can support the transition. |
Title | Whole-energy system modelling and optimisation |
Description | A deterministic model of the UK domestic heating energy system has been developed and first estimations of parameter uncertainties were developed. The stochastic optimisation is being implemented to account for uncertainties. Additionally, another model of the UK heating sector (including commercial and industrial demand) is being developed, which will be integrated with an existing model of the electricity sector to form a comprehensive heating and electricity portfolio and dispatch optimisation model. |
Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | The results will have impact for researchers, industry and policymakers. Different pathways for the decarbonisation of heating will be investigated and future energy systems will be optimised. The impact of different policies will be studied in order to assess their usefulness, and optimised policy measures will be proposed. |
Description | CISCO and IDLES |
Organisation | CISCO Systems |
Country | United States |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Sharing programme and research developments via consortium meetings, newsletters and reports. |
Collaborator Contribution | Discussions with investigators; attended whole consortium events. |
Impact | Reports from consortium events |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Collaboration with FOSS Research Centre for Sustainable Energy, University of Cyprus |
Organisation | University of Cyprus |
Country | Cyprus |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We have provided technoeconomic models of heating, cooling and energy storage technologies to investigate building-level decarbonisation scenarios. |
Collaborator Contribution | The FOSS Research Centre has provided technoeconomic models of PV systems and hydrogen generation and storage technologies. |
Impact | Research papers in preparation. |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | Collaboration with Mitsubishi Electric |
Organisation | Mitsubishi Electric |
Country | Japan |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | We have provided a detailed review report of the Spatial GB Clean Heat Pathway Model. Results were presented from assessments relating to the modelling framework, key assumptions, equations and validation, technology representation, optimisation approach, computational efficiency, flexibility and user interface. We are also collaborating on the low-GWP heat pump systems, including promising refrigerants, emerging technologies and advanced control strategies. |
Collaborator Contribution | Mitsubishi Electric has provided detailed technology model inputs, validation and feedback. |
Impact | The collaboration of our research group and Mitsubishi Electric has resulted to the identification of design and operation strategies that can be used in whole-energy system models to indicate the full techno-economic potential of different technology options. |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Collaboration with National Grid and Element Energy |
Organisation | Element Energy |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | We have provided a detailed review report of the Spatial GB Clean Heat Pathway Model. Results were presented from assessments relating to the modelling framework, key assumptions, equations and validation, technology representation, optimisation approach, computational efficiency, flexibility and user interface. |
Collaborator Contribution | National Grid and Element Energy have provided detailed feedback and, following our review, updated and improved the Spatial GB Clean Heat Pathway Model. |
Impact | The independent peer review of the Spatial GB Clean Heat Pathway Model was used to improve the model based on which gas and electricity distribution network operators make investment decisions. The peer review report will be available online to the general public in the next few weeks. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Collaboration with National Grid and Element Energy |
Organisation | National Grid UK |
Department | National Grid |
Country | United States |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | We have provided a detailed review report of the Spatial GB Clean Heat Pathway Model. Results were presented from assessments relating to the modelling framework, key assumptions, equations and validation, technology representation, optimisation approach, computational efficiency, flexibility and user interface. |
Collaborator Contribution | National Grid and Element Energy have provided detailed feedback and, following our review, updated and improved the Spatial GB Clean Heat Pathway Model. |
Impact | The independent peer review of the Spatial GB Clean Heat Pathway Model was used to improve the model based on which gas and electricity distribution network operators make investment decisions. The peer review report will be available online to the general public in the next few weeks. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Collaboration with external partners of IDLES (EDF, ABB, National Grid, West Sussex Country Council etc.) |
Organisation | ABB Group |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | We have conducted early-stage presentations and poster sessions to our external partners, explaining the project progress and indicating which pathways and technologies our models tend towards in the strive towards the decarbonisation of the energy sector. |
Collaborator Contribution | They have provided us information on cost and performance of heating technologies and district heating. They also ensure that industrial and policy needs are embedded in our results. |
Impact | IDLES industry partner event conducted on 14th November 2019. Prepared posters and delivered a presentation to industrial partners, identified challenges and aligned the project according to needs and interests of partners. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Collaboration with external partners of IDLES (EDF, ABB, National Grid, West Sussex Country Council etc.) |
Organisation | EDF Energy |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | We have conducted early-stage presentations and poster sessions to our external partners, explaining the project progress and indicating which pathways and technologies our models tend towards in the strive towards the decarbonisation of the energy sector. |
Collaborator Contribution | They have provided us information on cost and performance of heating technologies and district heating. They also ensure that industrial and policy needs are embedded in our results. |
Impact | IDLES industry partner event conducted on 14th November 2019. Prepared posters and delivered a presentation to industrial partners, identified challenges and aligned the project according to needs and interests of partners. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Collaboration with external partners of IDLES (EDF, ABB, National Grid, West Sussex Country Council etc.) |
Organisation | National Grid UK |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | We have conducted early-stage presentations and poster sessions to our external partners, explaining the project progress and indicating which pathways and technologies our models tend towards in the strive towards the decarbonisation of the energy sector. |
Collaborator Contribution | They have provided us information on cost and performance of heating technologies and district heating. They also ensure that industrial and policy needs are embedded in our results. |
Impact | IDLES industry partner event conducted on 14th November 2019. Prepared posters and delivered a presentation to industrial partners, identified challenges and aligned the project according to needs and interests of partners. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Collaboration with external partners of IDLES (EDF, ABB, National Grid, West Sussex Country Council etc.) |
Organisation | West Sussex County Council |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | We have conducted early-stage presentations and poster sessions to our external partners, explaining the project progress and indicating which pathways and technologies our models tend towards in the strive towards the decarbonisation of the energy sector. |
Collaborator Contribution | They have provided us information on cost and performance of heating technologies and district heating. They also ensure that industrial and policy needs are embedded in our results. |
Impact | IDLES industry partner event conducted on 14th November 2019. Prepared posters and delivered a presentation to industrial partners, identified challenges and aligned the project according to needs and interests of partners. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Daedalus Environmental and IDLES |
Organisation | Daedalus Environmental |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Sharing programme and research developments via consortium meetings, newsletters and reports. |
Collaborator Contribution | Attended meetings with investigators; attended whole consortium events; attended the IDLES Management Board 14/11/2019 in the rotational place (reserved for non-cash contributing consortium members) |
Impact | Reports from consortium events. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | EDF and IDLES |
Organisation | EDF Energy |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Sharing programme and research developments via consortium meetings, management board, newsletters and reports. Dr Iain Staffell and Prof Richard Green undertook consultancy work with EDF Energy on modelling future power prices to support their investment team, drawing on analysis developed within Project 6 of IDLES. |
Collaborator Contribution | Funded 2 x PhD students working alongside the Programme Attended meetings with investigators and students; attended whole consortium events; participated in IDLES Management Board |
Impact | Reports from consortium events. PhD students integrated into the IDLES programme. Consultancy work on modelling future power prices completed with Dr Iain Staffell and Prof Richard Green. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Ecocentric Energy and IDLES |
Organisation | Ecocentric Energy |
Country | Australia |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Sharing programme and research developments via consortium meetings, management board, newsletters and reports. |
Collaborator Contribution | Meetings with investigators; attended whole consortium events; holds a position on the IDLES Management Board |
Impact | Reports from consortium events. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Efficiency limits for spectral-splitting hybrid photovoltaic-thermal solar systems |
Organisation | Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
Country | China |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | As part of this research effort our team undertook model investigation and component comparison fro pumped-thermal energy storage. This research is pertinent for the thermos-economic performance analysis on large-scale energy storage technologies. |
Collaborator Contribution | The collaborating institution provided supervision and equipment. |
Impact | 1 x conference paper presented: 13th International Conference on Solar Energy for Buildings and Industry (EuroSun2020). 1 x journal papers published: Applied Energy. 1 x conference paper submitted: 15th International Conference on Energy Storage (ENERSTOCK 2021). 2 x journal papers in preparation (aimed submission Apr. 2021). |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Equinor and IDLES |
Organisation | Equinor |
Country | Norway |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Sharing programme and research developments via consortium meetings, newsletters and reports. |
Collaborator Contribution | Attending events and interactions with research groups |
Impact | N/A |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | GLA and IDLES |
Organisation | Greater London Authority (GLA) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Sharing programme and research developments via consortium meetings, newsletters and reports. |
Collaborator Contribution | Discussions with investigators; attended whole consortium events; has a role in the IDLES Steering Committee |
Impact | Reports from consortium events |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Green Giraffe and IDLES |
Organisation | Green Giraffe |
Country | United States |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Discussing the latest research from IDLES of interest to the partner, and sharing relevant publications. Sharing general programme and research developments via consortium meetings, newsletters and reports. |
Collaborator Contribution | Attending meetings with investigators; delivered a lecture on energy project finance to students on the MSc Management and International Management and our MBA programmes; delivered a public lecture on "Making biogas work: a financial perspective". |
Impact | Public lecture and student lecture |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | High-efficiency low-GWP transport refrigeration - collaboration with Sunswap Ltd |
Organisation | Sunswap Ltd |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | We have developed a reduced-order refrigeration system model, which has been integrated - together with a dynamic thermal model of the chilled and frozen compartments - within a duty cycle model. |
Collaborator Contribution | Sunswap Ltd have developed the dynamic thermal model of the chilled and frozen compartments and provided time-resolved case studies to assess the performance of the overall TRU system. |
Impact | The ongoing collaboration with Sunswap Ltd, though recent, has already proven fruitful. We have developed a reliable tool to assess and optimise the potential of solar-assisted battery-based TRUs, which is a highly promising technology to decarbonise the refrigerated transport sector. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Hitachi Energy and IDLES (formerly ABB and ABB Power Grids) |
Organisation | ABB Group |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Coordinated set up of ABB-Imperial Digital Energy Demonstrator on campus and hosting a launch event; hosting tours of the demonstrator; initiating a research project linking the demonstrator to IDLES models; sharing programme and research developments via consortium meetings, management board; newsletters and reports. |
Collaborator Contribution | Co-Funded the ABB-Imperial Digital Energy Demonstrator; funding for software, maintenance and a dedicated facility manager. Attended meetings with investigators; attended whole consortium events; participate in the IDLES Management Board. |
Impact | Construction of ABB-Imperial demonstrator; frequent tours of the demonstrator have been provided as part of engagement activities, for visitors and business meetings. Reports from consortium events. Workshops and meetings are regularly held with various colleagues on the Hitachi/Imperial long term vision for sector coupling and multi-energy vectors. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | IBM and IDLES |
Organisation | IBM |
Department | IBM UK Ltd |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Sharing programme and research developments via consortium meetings, Management Board meetings, newsletters and reports. |
Collaborator Contribution | A member of the Management Board, meets quarterly. Presented an industry perspective at the Management Board, May 2019. Attended whole consortium events. |
Impact | Reports from consortium events. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Informed Actions and IDLES |
Organisation | InformedActions |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Sharing programme and research developments via consortium meetings, newsletters and reports. |
Collaborator Contribution | Attended whole consortium events and participated in discussions |
Impact | Reports from consortium events. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | National Grid and IDLES |
Organisation | National Grid UK |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Sharing programme and research developments via consortium meetings, Management Board, newsletters and reports |
Collaborator Contribution | Sponsored 1 x PhD student working alongside the programme. Attended meetings with investigators; attended whole consortium events; participation in the IDLES Management Board |
Impact | Reports from consortium events. PhD student integrated into IDLES. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | ONZO and IDLES |
Organisation | Onzo Ltd |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Sharing programme and research developments via consortium meetings, newsletters and reports. |
Collaborator Contribution | Attended consortium events |
Impact | Reports from consortium events |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC) and IDLES |
Organisation | Government of the UK |
Department | Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Sharing programme and research developments via consortium meetings, newsletters and reports. Co-supervising 2 x MSc students projects with OPDC on the MSc Sustainable Energy Futures course at Imperial. |
Collaborator Contribution | Attended meetings with investigators; attended whole consortium events; is a member of the IDLES Steering Committee. Co-supervising 2 x MSc students projects on the MSc Sustainable Energy Futures course at Imperial. |
Impact | Valuable input into the Steering Committee; 2 x MSc thesis completed using OPDC as a case study. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Project METER and IDLES |
Organisation | University of Oxford |
Department | Environmental Change Institute |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Our research team enhanced the Project METER database, and developed methods, algorithms and code to analyse the data in new ways to put it to further use. |
Collaborator Contribution | Our partners at the University of Oxford provided the Project METER database at no cost, as well as invested the time to help us understand the data. |
Impact | Multidisciplinary collaboration that brings together transport studies, energy, social sciences, statistical analysis and agent-based microsimulation techniques. Primary outcomes to date 1. Enhanced project METER database 2. Paper published by the Procedia Computer Science 3. Development of energy demand simulator based on the models calibrated using this data |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | RBG and IDLES |
Organisation | KiWi Power |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Design of demand side response trials, and analysis of data from the demand side response trials conducted in 2020-2021 |
Collaborator Contribution | The Royal Borough of Greenwich and Kiwi Power were jointly responsible for conducting a range of demand side response trials, and collecting the resulting data through surveys, smart meters and mobile phone apps |
Impact | The data from these trials are currently being analysed and will contribute toward the development of the models embedded within our prototype demand simulator |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | RBG and IDLES |
Organisation | Royal Borough of Greenwich |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Design of demand side response trials, and analysis of data from the demand side response trials conducted in 2020-2021 |
Collaborator Contribution | The Royal Borough of Greenwich and Kiwi Power were jointly responsible for conducting a range of demand side response trials, and collecting the resulting data through surveys, smart meters and mobile phone apps |
Impact | The data from these trials are currently being analysed and will contribute toward the development of the models embedded within our prototype demand simulator |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | USL - MIT partnership |
Organisation | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Developing a new agent and activity-based framework for modelling the impacts of transport policies that takes into account consumer behaviour and demand, and account for the energy implications of activities and travel. |
Collaborator Contribution | Our MIT partners own an agent and activity-based travel demand modelling framework that represents the transport supply network in great detail. They worked with us to integrate their framework with ours thus creating a larger modelling framework that can be used as a decision support system for transport policy assessment. |
Impact | A proposal is being fleshed out based on the collaboration, to be submitted jointly to the EPSRC and NSF. An initial summary of the proposal was accepted by NSF and EPSRC, we are now developing the full proposal. |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | USL - U Toronto partnership |
Organisation | University of Toronto |
Country | Canada |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Dr Aruna Sivakumar and Dr Jacek Pawlak have developed an agent and activity-based model that links individual activities and travel to energy and resource demands. |
Collaborator Contribution | Dr Eric Miller at the University of Toronto brings to the partnership his experience in applying an activity-based model for transport planning practice in Greater Toronto. He has also provided access to his TASHA (activity scheduling) software, in order that we can integrate it into our modelling framework. |
Impact | We have published a journal paper together, though it is more on accessibility and transport and has therefore not been attributed to this award. We are currently working on developing an Imperial College software platform based partly on this partnership. This output will become available by the end of 2023. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | USL - UT Austin partnership |
Organisation | University of Texas at Austin |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Dr Aruna Sivakumar and Dr Jacek Pawlak are co-supervising a PhD student Mr Jeff Wu, who is developing a modelling framework for modelling the activity schedules of individuals and its implications for travel while taking into account the trade-offs between digital and physical activities. The team will take this expertise and modelling framework into the partnership. We have been successful in acquiring funding for Mr Jeff Wu to make an overseas institutional visit to our partners at UT Austin -- the ESRC-funded LISS DTP will fund approx £6000 towards Mr Jeff Wu's stipend and travel/subsistence expenses for a 13 week visit between May-August 2023. |
Collaborator Contribution | Dr Chandra Bhat has world renown expertise the application of microeconometric models to individual choice and travel behaviour. He has committed to contributing his time and expertise, as well as desk space and resources for Mr Jeff Wu and Dr Aruna Sivakumar to make an overseas institutional visit to UT Austin. During this visit the modelling framework developed by the Imperial College team will be transformed into an operational model or model system. |
Impact | Key disciplines involved: economics, transport planning, psychology and sociology. Outcomes will be updated after the overseas visit in May-August 2023. |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | USL-NTU Smart Sensors |
Organisation | Nanyang Technological University |
Country | Singapore |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | The NTU-ICL collaboration project is designed to investigate how various environmental factors and interpersonal relationships impact human satisfaction and electricity consumption in open offices. In the Imperial College London's Urban Systems Lab, the research is focused on modelling activity-travel behaviour and demand, with extensions to address demand-side behaviour in buildings. This stream of work has developed new methodologies, e.g., activity-based approaches to investigate the behaviour of occupants in buildings. The application of these methods requires advanced statistical/machine learning models, accurate and timely energy data sources and appropriate occupant survey data. An MSc student at Imperial College London has successfully completed and submitted a thesis that draws upon the findings from this study. |
Collaborator Contribution | In the NTU's LIFT research group, a wireless smart IoT framework has been developed to enable rapid condition assessment of civil infrastructure. The system has been recognized by NSF in the USA for commercialization, and it has also been installed on over 10 railroad bridges in the USA and Ain Dubai Ferris Wheel in the UAE. Four UG students at NTU contributed to this partnership through their final year theses. |
Impact | Workshops and seminars conducted in Singapore and online, facilitating a comprehensive exchange of knowledge and research findings. |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | Upside Energy/Krakenflex and IDLES |
Organisation | Upside Energy Ltd |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Sharing programme and research developments via consortium meetings, newsletters and reports. |
Collaborator Contribution | Attended whole consortium events; acceptance to attend the IDLES Management Board in the rotational place (reserved for non-cash contributing consortium members) |
Impact | Reports from consortium events. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | West Sussex County Council and IDLES |
Organisation | West Sussex County Council |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Sharing programme and research developments via consortium meetings, newsletters and reports. Analysing data sets of energy consumption from West Sussex sites. |
Collaborator Contribution | Discussions with investigators; attended whole consortium events; sharing energy profile datasets from their sites. |
Impact | Reports from consortium events |
Start Year | 2019 |
Title | MEDUSA |
Description | MEDUSA is a python-based software for modelling energy demand in urban systems using an activity- and agent-based microsimulation approach. The architecture of the software platform and initial prototype have been developed so far. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2024 |
Impact | The software has been used to develop a Demand Side Response implementation, in collaboration with an energy systems model. The details of the implementation are being written and will be published shortly. |
Title | Object-oriented reduced-order dynamic model of reciprocating-piston devices |
Description | The reciprocating-piston model is a Matlab-written dynamic lumped-mass model that explicitly accounts for instantaneous loss mechanisms, i.e., pressure losses through intake/exhaust valves, in-cylinder gas-to-wall conjugate heat transfer, mass leakage past the piston rings and friction losses. Performance with in-cylinder two-phase flows (notably liquid-spray injection) can also be predicted. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Impact | Large number of publications (5 conference papers and 3 journal papers so far). |
Title | Optimisation Software for Medium-/Long-Term Scheduling of Hydropower Cascades on Multiple Markets |
Description | Peak/off-peak spreads on European electricity forward and spot markets are eroding due to the ongoing nuclear phaseout and the steady growth in photovoltaic capacity. The reduced profitability of peak/off-peak arbitrage forces hydropower producers to recover part of their original profitability on the reserve markets. We have implemented a bi-layer stochastic programming framework for the optimal operation of a fleet of interconnected hydropower plants that sells energy on both the spot and the reserve markets. The outer layer (the planner's problem) optimizes end-of-day reservoir filling levels over one year, whereas the inner layer (the trader's problem) selects optimal hourly market bids within each day. After an approximation which assumes that the end-of-day water levels are decided upon one day ahead of time, we obtain a two-stage stochastic program that can conveniently be solved via the sample average approximation. Numerical experiments based on a cascade in the Salzburg region of Austria demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | Just released, so no impact yet. |
URL | http://www.optimization-online.org/DB_FILE/2021/03/8282.pdf |
Title | Pumped thermal electricity storage lumped-capacity model. |
Description | This dynamic reduced-order model, written in Matlab using object-oriented programming, predicts the thermodynamic part-load performance of a reversible Joule/Brayton cycle used as an electricity storage technology, reversible Joule-Brayton cycle engine, where energy is stored as sensible heat in hot and cold thermal stores, while the temperature difference is achieved through gas compression and expansion processes. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Impact | Submitted to the ECOS 2020 conference: Paul Sapin, Michael C. Simpson, Andreas Olympios, Matthias Mersch and Christos N. Markides, Cost-benefit analysis of reversible reciprocating-piston engines with adjustable volume ratio in pumped thermal electricity storage, Proceedings of ECOS 2020 - the 33rd International Conference on Efficiency, Costs, Optimization, Simulation and Environmental Impact of Energy Systems ECOS June 29-July 3, 2020, Osaka, Japan. |
Title | Software - Lumped, steady-state organic Rankine cycle optimisation model |
Description | Lumped, steady state organic Rankine cycle model in Matlab with a detailed, discretized representation of the heat exchangers. CAMD description of the working fluid. MINLP optimisation problem to minimize specific investment costs for given operating conditions. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Impact | On-going |
Title | Software - Spatially-lumped, steady-state heat pump thermodynamic and component-costing model, as well as data-driven CHP and district heating models. |
Description | Thermodynamic and component-costing model of heat pump can be used in conjection with data-driven CHP and district heating models to accurately compare technologies from a system perspective, as well as to provide new innovative designs (working fluids, component sizing etc.) |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Impact | On-going |
Description | 'Science in the City' talk |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Dr Marko Aunedi delivered a ;Science in the City' talk at Eden Tree Investment Management, organised by The Grantham Institute |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Blog by Dimitrios Papadaskalopoulos |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Dimitrios Papadaskalopoulos wrote a blog about his presentation at the PowerTech conference in June 2019; to communicate about his work on electricity market modelling using optimisation and game theoretic approaches; to speak more broadly on what his work contributes to the energy community |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://energyfutureslab.blog/2019/08/01/flexible-demand-at-powertech2019/ |
Description | Blog by Jacek Pawlak |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Researcher Jacek Pawlak wrote a blog based on his seminar presentation "A microeconomic framework for integrated modelling of emerging activity-travel behaviour patterns and energy consumption". The purpose of the blog was for Jacek to explain his research on understanding energy use as society changes when, where and how we go about our daily routine. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://energyfutureslab.blog/2019/10/10/a-microeconomic-framework-for-integrated-modelling-of-emerg... |
Description | Blog by Malte Jansen - "Behind the paper: The era of subsidy-free offshore wind" |
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 | Blog published by Malte Jansen - "Behind the paper: The era of subsidy-free offshore wind" (republished from the community websites of Behavioural and Social Sciences at Nature Research). The blog describes the development of Malte's research, published in Nature Energy, analysing the rapidly falling prices in offshore wind auctions. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://energyfutureslab.blog/2020/10/06/behind-the-paper-the-era-of-subsidy-free-offshore-wind |
Description | Blog by Marco Pantaleo and Marko Aunedi - Combining heat and power |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Marco Pantaleo and Marko Aunedi wrote a blog entitled "Combining heat and power in Dubrovnik", based on a paper they presented at the 14th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (SDEWES). Purpose - for the researchers to communicate their work presented at the conference to a wider audience, on integrating heating and electricity systems using technologies such as electric heat pumps, boilers and thermal storage. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://energyfutureslab.blog/2019/11/07/combining-heat-and-power-in-dubrovnik/ |
Description | Blog by Marko Aunedi - New nuclear in the UK: At what price does it make sense? |
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 | Marko Aunedi wrote a blog entitled "New nuclear in the UK: At what price does it make sense?". Positive feedback on the blog and analysis was directly received online from contacts across the nuclear industry. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://energyfutureslab.blog/2020/11/23/new-nuclear-in-the-uk-at-what-price-does-it-make-sense |
Description | Blog by Prof Nilay Shah on hydrogen |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Prof Nilay Shah wrote a blog for The Foundation for Science and Technology (a UK charity, providing an impartial platform for debate of policy issues that have a science, research, technology or innovation element) on "Hydrogen and its role in the low carbon economy". |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.foundation.org.uk/Blog/2021/Hydrogen-and-its-role-in-the-low-carbon-economy |
Description | Blog by Xi Zhang - microgrids and resilience |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Researcher Xi Zhang wrote a blog about his work on multi energy microgrids and resilience. The EnergyPost.EU also requested to repost it (https://energypost.eu/multi-energy-island-microgrids-can-increase-grid-resilience/) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://energyfutureslab.blog/2020/03/02/multi-energy-microgrids-the-key-to-energy-resilience/ |
Description | Blog by an IDLES researcher - Scalable solution approaches for dynamic decision-making in energy planning |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Dr Huikang Liu, IDLES Research Associate in the Analytics and Operations Group in the Business School, discusses scalable solution approaches for dynamic decision-making in energy planning. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://energyfutureslab.blog/2021/04/08/scalable-solution-approaches-for-dynamic-decision-making-in... |
Description | Blog by researchers who won a Best Paper award at an international conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Abdullah Al Kindi and Andreas Olympios wrote a blog about their attendance at the 16th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (SDEWES) and the results they presented. Abdullah presented his results from a collaboration with Dr Marko Aunedi, Dr Marco Pantaleo, Professor Goran Strbac and Professor Christos Markides, that undertakes a thermo-economic assessment of flexible nuclear power plants in the UK's future low-carbon electricity system. This collaboration between IDLES system modellers and technology modellers won a Best Paper prize, which is discussed in the blog. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://energyfutureslab.blog/2021/11/08/idles-research-on-show-at-international-conference-with-new... |
Description | Briefing Paper launch: Impacts of COVID-19 on the Energy System |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | A launch event for the Briefing Paper "Impacts of COVID-19 on the Energy System" in October 2021 attracted just under 100 online attendees and has since been viewed on YouTube by close to 300 people. The paper was presented by co-authors and this was followed by a panel discussion on the topic with: Julian Leslie (Head of Networks and Chief Engineer at National Grid ESO); Dr Tina Fawcett, (Acting Leader, Energy Programme and Senior Researcher at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford) and David Sykes (Data Analyst at Octopus Energy). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh0S8XUlu8k |
Description | DAFNI Roadshow |
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 | Approximately 25-30 people attended a workshop organised jointly by Dr Aruna Sivakumar of Imperial College London and DAFNI. The workshop was focused on the development and implementation of large scale models of national infrastructures (e.g. transport, energy). The event sparked lively discussion with strong interest from the attendees to learn more about research and deployment opportunities. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://dafni.ac.uk/roadshow-imperial/ |
Description | Delivered talk on "How much flexibility will we need in a net-zero GB power system?" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | As part of the event titled "The Flexibility Landscape" organised by ingridAI and IEEE Student Branch at Imperial College London, a presentation titled "How much flexibility will we need in a net-zero GB power system?" was delivered to an audience of around 60 people that included Imperial researchers and postgraduate students, as well as a number of Imperial alumni currently working in the energy industry. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Delivered talk on "Pathways to Net Zero" to MSc students |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Delivered a guest presentation on "Pathways to net zero for the UK energy system" to students in MSc in Energy and Environmental Technology and Economics at City, University of London. The presentation mainly included IDLES research, in particular the 2021 White Paper on net-zero power system. The presentation spark significant interest by the students in various issues related to energy system decarbonisation. Feedback received afterwards was that "the students were very appreciative of the guest speakers' time and knowledge". |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Demand side response data workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Hosted a workshop on DSR data with participation from collaborators from UCL, Oxford University and University of Reading. To share knowledge between colleagues and collaborators about our existing, and desired, data sets of energy consumption. Sharing of data from the METER project at the University of Oxford with ICL was initiated. Areas of follow up with the Smart Energy Research Lab identified |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Discussion on energy system modelling with Ofgem |
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 | Discussion with Doug Cook, Ofgem's Deputy Director for Digitalisation and Decentralisation, and Hywell Lloyd from the EnergyRev consortium, about Imperial's modelling of system benefits of Smart Local Energy Systems (SLES) carried out as part of EnergyRev project, as well as a wider presentation of our net zero energy system modelling activities including IDLES. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Dr Marko Aunedi interviewed for Imperial Stories |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Marko Aunedi gave an interview to feed into an article for 'Imperial Stories' on the future of the UK's energy mix. 'Imperial Stories' include features and opinion from the Imperial College community, from world-leading experts. The article's aim is to inform the public on the future of energy, provide a voice to Imperial researchers and share recommendations with policymakers, as well as raising the visibility of IDLES research on net zero energy mix. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/be-inspired/stories/ |
Description | Dr Mirabelle Muûls discussed key IDLES findings at the Parliamentary Reception on Delivering Net Zero at the Houses of Parliament |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Dr Mirabelle Muûls discussed key IDLES findings at the Parliamentary Reception on Delivering Net Zero at the Houses of Parliament on 7th September 2022. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Dr Mirabelle Muûls met with BEIS to inform the Net-Zero review |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Dr Mirabelle Muûls met with members of BEIS on 9th November 2022 to inform the Net-Zero review. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Drax Electric Insights Report, Q4, 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Press release about the Q4 Drax Electric Insights report, referencing IDLES work from Iain Staffell and Richard Green |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://electricinsights.co.uk/#/reports/report-2019-q4/detail/what-drove-britains-decarbonisation?_... |
Description | EERA Energy Systems Integration meeting Bochum, January 23-25, 2023 |
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 | As a leader of the Hydrogen Working Group, Prof G Strbac presented the core evidence related to role and value of hydrogen in supporting cost effective transition to resilience zero carbon energy future (based on core research of IDLES project) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | EPSRC engineering net zero week 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | The EPSRC Engineering Net Zero showcase was an interactive event that ran from 20th June to 24th June at the University of Glasgow, with exhibition, panels, workshops and keynote sessions. IDLES academics and researchers got involved by running an in-person exhibition stand as well as leading an online panel discussion. The in-person activities allowed IDLES researchers to showcase their work to researchers from other programmes/universities, industry leaders and policy makers as well as opportunities to network with others and gain a greater understanding of relevant research being done across the UK. The online panel discussion was attended by 29 people. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.ukri.org/events/epsrc-engineering-net-zero-showcase/ |
Description | Educational brochure on whole energy systems analysis |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Produced an educational brochure in conjunction with the company Futurum on the topic of whole energy systems analysis. It featured profiles of a number of IDLES investigators and described the 6 projects of IDLES, and the importance of connecting across the various strands of the energy sector. The brochure comprised a 6-page main article, activity sheet and case study. It was sent to the ~50k circulation list of Futurum, uploaded to the TES global resource repository and to www.teacherpayteachers.com and is freely available for download. Also promoted online via Futurum and Energy Futures Lab. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://futurumcareers.com/how-do-we-prepare-the-uk-for-a-zero-carbon-future |
Description | Electric Insights Quarterly and website |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | We are now working with Drax Power to produce a quarterly newsletter, and they maintain a website of accessible and processed data from Elexon and National Grid, showing the state of the electricity system in Great Britain. The insights in the newsletter, commenting on developments in output shares by generator type, wholesale prices, carbon emissions, and similar indicators, draw on the research for this project. The newsletter has been mentioned in several national newspapers or other media outlets (particularly the finding that over half of Britain's electricity was low-carbon in the third (summer) quarter of 2016) and the website is now regularly referred to by the Financial Times as a source of electricity data |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2021,2022 |
URL | http://www.electricinsights.co.uk |
Description | Energy Futures Lab Seminar - a framework for integrated modelling of emerging activity-travel behaviour patterns and energy consumption |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Energy Futures Lab Lunchtime seminar from Dr Jacek Pawlak. Presentation entitled "A microeconomic framework for integrated modelling of emerging activity-travel behaviour patterns and energy consumption". The presentation discussed changes in energy consumption due to activity/travel behaviour patterns. The audience contained many MSc students who were in the process of choosing their dissertation projects, so Jacek's presentation raised the profile of his group's work in this respect. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/administration/energyfutureslab/events... |
Description | Energy Futures Lab Seminar from IDLES partner N-SIDE |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | The company N-SIDE, who are a consortium partner of IDLES, delivered a lunchtime seminar on Integrating day-ahead multi energy carrier markets, discussing research from their Horizon 2020 project 'MAGNITUDE'. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/117134/integrating-day-ahead-multi-energy-carrier-markets-equilibr... |
Description | Energy Futures Lab Webinar - Microgrids: An enabling technology towards more resilient energy systems? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Energy Futures Lab Lunchtime webinar from Dr Anastasios Oulis Rousis. Presentation entitled "Microgrids: An enabling technology towards more resilient energy systems?". The presentation discussed innovative design and operational models for microgrids to help realise their potential to actively contribute to grid resilience. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/microgrids-an-enabling-technology-towards-more-resilient-energy-syste... |
Description | Energy Futures Lab Webinar - The Subsidy-Free Era of Offshore Wind |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Energy Futures Lab Lunchtime webinar from Dr Malte Jansen "The Subsidy-Free Era of Offshore Wind", communicating his research on the cost reductions across offshore wind. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-subsidy-free-era-of-offshore-wind-tickets-124248074335# |
Description | European Energy Research Alliance - Energy System Integration WG meeting (Prof G Strbac is a member of this WG) - WG meeting was in Belgium, September 19-20, 2022 |
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 | This was EERA (European Energy Research Alliance) workshop focused on Energy System Cost (Leuven, Belgium), on September 19-20, 2022. The presentation made was related to the technical and economic frameworks that governments and industries will need to build in the future efficient, resilient and sustainable European energy system. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Exhibited at 'Imperial Lates', evening engagement event open to general public |
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 | Ran the Wattown demonstrator at the Imperial Lates 'Beautiful Data' event in March 2020, in order to engage with visitors about the use of data and digitalisation in the energy sector. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/116446/imperial-lates-beautiful-data/ |
Description | Feature written for the IMechE magazine's online content |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | A feature was written by the IDLES Project 2 team, led by Prof Christos Markides, for the Institution of Mechanical Engineers publication 'Professional Engineering'. The title was 'Beyond batteries and pumped-hydro for large-scale energy storage' and the article drew on the group's review paper of thermo-mechanical energy storage. It was published online by 'Professional Engineering', included in their weekly newsletter and shared on their Twitter page (23.1K Followers). We timed registration opening for a linked event on the topic with the day that the article was published, so that the event details could be included in the article. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.imeche.org/news/news-article/feature-beyond-batteries-and-pumped-hydro-for-large-scale-e... |
Description | Featured in the Imperial College eBook 'Innovations for Sustainable Energy' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | IDLES was included in the Energy Systems section of a short eBook from the Enterprise Division at Imperial College. Their publications are targeted at Imperial's industry and business collaborators. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://enterprise.imperial.ac.uk/transition-to-zero-pollution-sustainable-energy?utm_campaign=Campa... |
Description | Great Exhibition Road Festival |
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 | Participation in the Energy Futures Lab stand at the festival. The purpose was to inform visitors about developments in renewable energy and integration into the energy system, through interactive demonstrations. The demos could be used on a simple level with younger visitors and used to initiate more detailed conversations with adult visitors. We also ran tours of the ABB-Imperial digital energy demonstrator. The purpose of the tour was to show visitors examples of the way the grid will be controlled and managed in the near future and how this will be impacted by research in IDLES and across Imperial College. Issued 250 "Renewables Ninja" business cards to visitors (containing details of Iain Staffell's web tool for running simulations of hourly power output from wind and solar PV farms). Volunteers were invited to run the Wattown demo at ResearchFest! - an activity run by the Centre for Academic English at Imperial College. A volunteer was invited to host an "ask-a-scientist" afternoon for primary children. Videos and social media posts were generated. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/192110/energy-futures-lab-joins-great-exhibition/ |
Description | IDLES Conference 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | The IDLES programme hosted a 2-day conference at Imperial College London on November 15th and 16th which brought together around 100 academics, policymakers and representatives from the energy industry to discuss developments in energy decarbonisation strategies based on whole energy systems analysis. The conference helped IDLES academics and researchers disseminate their research outcomes and the conference programme included keynote presentations by leading figures from industry, presentations by the IDLES academics on their recent work and networking opportunities. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/154498/idles-conference-2022-decarbonising-the-uk-energy-system/ |
Description | IDLES Conference 2023 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | The IDLES programme hosted a full day conference at Imperial College London on September 20th 2023 which brought together close to 100 academics, policymakers and representatives from the energy industry to discuss developments in energy decarbonisation strategies based on whole energy systems analysis. The conference helped IDLES academics and researchers disseminate their research outcomes and the conference programme included keynote presentations by leading figures from industry, presentations by the IDLES academics on their recent work and networking opportunities. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/energy-futures-lab/idles/conference/ |
Description | IDLES Evening Lecture with Professor Mark O'Malley, NREL |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The inaugral 'IDLES Lecture'. Entitled "Towards 100% renewables: The integration challenge", from Professor Mark O'Malley, NREL. Aiming to communicate the technological and economic integration challenges to a 100% renewable electricity system. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/administration/energyfutureslab/events... |
Description | IDLES industry partner consortium event |
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 | The first consortium engagement since the grant was awarded. The purpose was to welcome partners to the programme and remind them on the aims and vision. A programme overview was presented and partner feedback was sought on a series of research questions developed within IDLES. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | IDLES industry partner consortium events |
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 | IDLES events with consortium partners (two per year). Purpose - to update partners on the programme and share some keys areas of research. Presentations delivered by IDLES researchers; poster session; activities and group discussions with partners. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
Description | Imperial College news story reporting on "Spectral-splitting photovoltaic-thermal solar collectors" research |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | A research article led by Professor Christos Markides, published in the Nature journal, Light: Science & Applications, was the focus of an Imperial College news story. The research has been picked up by 8 news outlets and 2 blogs, including PV Magazine, Solar Daily, SciTechDaily and TechXplore. The publication has been accessed 1355 times, and has an Altmetric score of 80 which puts it in the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric. (ref: Huang, G., Wang, K. & Markides, C.N. Efficiency limits of concentrating spectral-splitting hybrid photovoltaic-thermal (PV-T) solar collectors and systems. Light Sci Appl 10, 28 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-021-00465-1). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/214093/solar-collectors-that-split-sunlight-more/ |
Description | Internal science communication activity - ResearchFest! |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | To assist new starters (primarily post-grad students) at Imperial College practice their English language skills within a topic relevant to their research. In 2019 'Wattown' demo was shown then the participants asked questions and discussed the energy research in IDLES and Imperial College generally. Visitors took away flyers about the IDLES programme and Energy Futures Lab. In 2020 the event was held online. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
Description | Interview with report author and citation of IDLES White Paper in an article for the IET's magazine 'Engineering & Technology' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Findings from the IDLES White Paper "Net-zero GB electricity: cost-optimal generation and storage mix" on the role of nuclear energy in a future net-zero system were cited in an article in the IET's magazine 'Engineering & Technology'. Following an interview with the White Paper's lead author Dr Marko Aunedi, an E&T article, 'Could nuclear power help get us to net zero?' featured online and in the print version of the magazine with circulation to approx. 140,000 members, which referenced the White Paper findings and the IDLES Programme. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2022/02/could-nuclear-power-help-get-us-to-net-zero/ |
Description | Invited to participate in a high level energy discussion group chaired by Dieter Helm |
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 | On the back of his White Paper "Net-zero GB electricity: cost-optimal generation and storage mix", lead author Dr Marko Aunedi was invited to participate in a discussion with the small, high-level organisation 'Energy Futures Group', which is Chaired by Dieter Helm. This group meets monthly and the Treasury, BEIS, Ofgem, CCC and key companies attend. Marko was invited to participate in the topic: The 2035 target - can it be done? Will it? And what happens if it isn't? |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Keynote at the IMechE Thermal Management Conference - "Staying cool - Current status and future prospects for battery thermal management systems" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Keynote talk on battery thermal management at the IMechE electric vehicle thermal management conference |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://events.imeche.org/ViewEvent?e=7430 |
Description | Lecture delivered to MSc students on energy project finance by IDLES partner |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Michael Ware, Director at the IDLES partner Green Giraffe (renewable energy finance company), delivered a lecture to 45 students from the MSc in Management and International Management and MBA programmes, on the topic of green energy project finance. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Lunchtime seminar as part of London Climate Action Week |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Konstantinos Zavitsas and Aruna Sivakumar presented "The mechanics of smart sustainable cities" to align with London Climate Action Week - communicating their research on the Sharing Cities project |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/96803/the-mechanics-of-smart-sustainable-cities/ |
Description | Media interviews by Prof Tim Green following the Aug 2019 power outage |
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 | Following widespread power cuts in Britain on 9th August 2019, Prof Tim Green gave interviews for Sky News, ITV News and Channel Four News, broadcast on Saturday 10th August 2019, and Radio Interviews for BBC 5Live Breakfast and BBC Radio Wales on Monday 12th August 2019. Quotes released by Science Media Centre picked up by several newspapers: The Guardian, The Independent, FT, The Sun and other UK newspapers. Gave additional briefings for BBC 5Live Business, Bloomberg News, The Sunday Telegraph and Wired Magazine. Commentary on National Grid's interim report was issued via Science Media Centre, Energy Futures Lab blog and Twitter thread. Interviewed for Channel 5 news and quoted in The Times, The Guardian, The Independent and many other outlets on 20th August 2019. Further interviews for BBC News Channel and BBC 5Live on 10th September 2019 following publication of the final report from National Grid. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Meeting with DESNZ Energy Innovation team |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | 12 attendees from the DESNEZ's Energy Innovation team participated in a session where we presented our research activities. This was followed by an hour of questions and discussion, with the identification of a set of collaborative research ideas to follow-up on. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Mini-documentary on Britain's energy under lockdown |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The mini-documentary "Power down: Britain's energy under lockdown" was produced to coincide with the Briefing Paper "Impacts of COVID19 on the Energy System". The documentary was produced as a digestible, high-level, overview of the Briefing Paper and its findings. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/energy-futures-lab/reports/briefing-papers/paper-7/# |
Description | News story released via Energy Futures Lab |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Imperial College (engineering) news story released about IDLES Project 2 research on the potential of thermo-mechanical energy storage (TMES) technologies as grid-scale electricity storage. The news story discussed their recent comprehensive international review in Progress in Energy into the advancement of a range of TMES technologies, including compressed-air energy storage, liquid-air energy storage and pumped-thermal electricity storage. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/217313/thermo-mechanical-technologies-offer-promise-grid-scale-elect... |
Description | NextMGT Energy Cultures Winter School - presentation by Dr Jacek Pawlak on "Understanding demand and its influence on the future energy system" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Dr Jacek Pawlak had an invited presentation on "Understanding Demand and its Influence on the Future Energy System" which featured discussion concerning various demand modelling approaches developed in IDLES. This was to an audience of experts and PhD students in micro gas turbines from across Europe. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Panel participation at European Utility Week |
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 | Marko Aunedi participated in a panel debate titled "Future-proofing the Transmission and Distribution Networks" within the European Utility Week in Paris, 12-14 November 2019. Five panelists represented the research, industry, policy, regulatory and NGO sectors and discussed how to manage network development in an increasingly uncertain environment. The session reached a broad audience and was also recorded for wider access. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Participating in an IAEA Consultancy Meeting |
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 | Marko Aunedi participated in International Atomic Energy Agency's 3-day expert meeting on the Role of Nuclear Energy in Energy systems with Increased Shares of Variable Renewable Energy Sources in Vienna in May 2019. Marko delivered a presentation on the role of flexibility in cost-efficient transition to low-carbon systems. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Participation in a roundtable discussion on the power sector - Dr Marko Aunedi |
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 | Dr Marko Aunedi took part in the roundtable discussion on the future of the UK power sector, organised by the National Infrastructure Commission and involving 20 participants from government, energy industry and research organisations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Podcast series produced; 'Low Carbon Conversations' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | An IDLES and Energy Futures Lab podcast series 'Low Carbon Conversations' was launched in March 2021. Hosted by IDLES postgraduate researcher Cormac O'Malley, each episode features an interview with a researcher discussing how challenges in running a decarbonised energy system are being overcome. 5 episodes were produced and released monthly, on topics including how to maintain a balanced power system, heat decarbonisation and hydrogen; what, why and where? |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/energy-futures-lab/idles/podcast/ |
Description | Powering Net-Zero Britain (IDLES White Paper Launch) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | IDLES White Paper was launched in an online webinar on 8 June 2021, titled "Powering Net-Zero Britain". The presentation of the key findings of the White Paper was followed by a panel discussion. Over 400 participants registered for the event. Recording of the event is available on YouTube. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntGuThYXlPI |
Description | Powerswarm network workshops |
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 | Iain Staffell and Malte Jansen co-organise the monthly Powerswarm network workshops. In Sept 2019: 'Future Electricity Networks', Glasgow. In Oct 2019: 'Decarbonisation of Heat', Birmingham. In Nov 2019: 'Mobility Services', London. In Dec 2019:'Wind Energy', London. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
URL | http://powerswarm.co.uk/ |
Description | Presentation and panel discussion about storage technologies based on thermo-mechanical principles |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | The event on 08/03/2022 featured a 20 minute presentation from Prof Christos Markides about thermo-mechanical energy storage systems, as alternatives to batteries and pumped hydro for large-scale storage. This was followed by a panel discussion with Stuart Nelmes (Highview Power), Nina Skorupska (REA) and Darren Jones (Hitachi Energy). The purpose was to raise awareness of the potential of such technologies, in view of their recent cost reductions and performance improvements, particularly to large industry stakeholders. The online event was attended by 156 people and the YouTube recording has had 463 views (as of 14/03/2022). Known impacts so far: (1) Prof Markides was approached by CEO of RheEnergise to discuss shared interests; (2) Energy Institute are planning to write up the event for the EI's new magazine. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoMe-pmHqAY |
Description | Presentation at an (online) Stanford University Symposium, Decarbonizing the Grid series |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Professor Richard Green presented at a Stanford University Symposium on 'Policies Facilitating Decarbonization of Supply', as part of their Decarbonizing the Grid workshop series. It was attended online by around 100 people from academia, industry and policy and has received several hundred subsequent views online. Alongside colleagues discussing US and China decarbonisation, Richard presented the IDLES work undertaken with Dr Iain Staffell on assigning British carbon emissions reductions to the various changes over the last decade. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trTwC8r6EUk |
Description | Presentation by Dr Mirabelle Muûls at the Tenth Mannheim Conference on Energy and the Environment |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Dr Mirabelle Muûls gave a presentation on "Homeworking can be Net Positive, Evidence from the UK Lockdown during COVID-19" at the Tenth Mannheim Conference on Energy and the Environment. The conference was attended by leading experts and researchers at all career levels. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Presentation by Dr Mirabelle Muûls in the EIEE SWEEEP Webinar series |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Dr Mirabelle Muûls gave a presentation on "Homeworking can be Net Positive, Evidence from the UK Lockdown during COVID-19" at the pan-institute Series of Webinars in Environmental and Energy Economics and Policy (SWEEEP) hosted by the European Institute on Economics and the Environment. This webinar series aims to bring together the academic community to contribute to the scientific, economic, and policy discussions on important environmental and energy issues. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.eiee.org/sweeep-webinar-series-2022/ |
Description | Presentation on cross-vector modelling of low-carbon energy systems in EERA Energy Systems Integration modelling workshop |
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 | Marko Aunedi participated in the EERA ESI modelling workshop in Delft, Netherlands in May 2019 among ~30 participants from other research organisations around Europe. He presented Imperial's research on cross-vector modelling of low-carbon energy systems. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Presentation on whole-system benefits of smart EV fleets in the UK in EERA Energy Systems Integration technical workshop |
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 | Marko Aunedi presented preliminary outcomes of Imperial's research on whole-system benefits of smart EV fleets to an audience of ~30 in EERA ESI workshop in Stavanger, Norway in September 2019. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Prof G Strbac joined Advisory Board of the Institution of Gas Engineers & Managers (IGEM) |
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 | Contributed to the discussions related to role and value of hydrogen mostly based on whole-system modelling, including the system benefits of different hydrogen technologies. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Prof G Strbac joined IEEE P2030 Smart Grid Interoperability Working Group |
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 | Focus of this working group is on the development of standards of future Smart Grid Interoperability |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Profile of IDLES Researcher in Imperial College internal newsletter and blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Profile of Marko Aunedi included in the Imperial College blog and internal newsletter, circulated to all staff and available on website. In the interview, he references his work in IDLES, his White Paper, webinar and podcast signposting our work to a much broader audience internally. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://blogs.imperial.ac.uk/imperial-people/2022/02/14/dr-marko-aunedi-research-fellow-department-o... |
Description | Public lecture on the financing biogas by an IDLES industry partner |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | An IDLES programme lecture was delivered online during September 2021 by invited speaker Michael Ware, who is a Director from the IDLES partner, Green Giraffe, a renewable energy finance advisory firm. The topic was "Making biogas work: a financial prospective". |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO_kooffXnc |
Description | Quoted in media - Dr Iain Staffell |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | News articles where IDLES Project Lead Iain Staffell, or his work, is quoted; to provide exposure to Iain's work related to energy systems, emissions and markets; establishes him & Imperial College as a point of authority on these topics. List: The Times, 2021. EDF warning of plant closures limits Britain's nuclear options; The Times, 2021. Imperial College report warns on threat to power grid's security; i News, 2021. UK switch to renewable power threatened by freak weather, scientists warn; The Guardian, 2021. UK businesses can unlock growth with green exports, says CBI; The Telegraph, 2021. Wind slump risks blackouts as Britain goes green; The Telegraph, 2021. Green energy drive puts Britain's resilience in doubt; Engineering & Technology, 2021. Early phase-out of coal could save billions; Australian Mining, 2021. Coal workforce must be retrained to avoid future job cuts; Independent, 2020. Boxing Day sets new record for wind power generation in Britain; Bloomberg, 2020. U.K. Power Grid Heads for Greenest Year as Renewables Grow; Guardian, 2020. Storm Bella helps Great Britain set new record for wind power generation; New York Times, 2020. "Reduced Demand for Electricity Leads to Power Giveaways." Bloomberg, 2020. "Sunniest Spring Helps U.K. Hit a New Solar Record." Daily Mail, 2020. "Renewables generated more than 40% of Britain's power in the first three months of the year - overtaking fossil fuels for the first time." Independent, 2020. "Climate crisis: Renewable energy overtakes fossil fuels for first three months of the year." (Also ITV News, Sky News, Bloomberg, The Energyst) Telegraph, 2020. "Lockdown sees electricity demand fall to lowest level since 1982." (also Evening Standard.) Fortune, 2020. "A month of Sundays: Electricity use data reveals secrets of coronavirus lockdown lifestyle." Time, 2020. "Electricity Data May Reveal How Coronavirus Lockdowns Affect Our Daily Routine." Forbes, 2020. "Britain Hits Three Weeks Coal-Free Record." The Independent, 2020. "UK cutting carbon from power grid 'almost twice as fast as any other major economy'. The Guardian, 2020. "GB carbon emissions from electricity hit record low in lockdown - report." i News, 2020. "Lockdown brings Britain cleanest ever power supply as carbon emissions fall by one third." Bloomberg, 2020. "Britain Got its Cleanest Electricity Ever During Lockdown." The Times, 2019. Electric cars 'always cleaner than petrol' (also in Business Green. Auto Express); Daily Mail, 2019. Electric cars in the UK 'simply cannot be more polluting than a petrol or diesel equivalent' over their lifetime, says new in-depth study; i News, 2019. Electric cars' lifetime CO2 emissions half that of petrol and diesel; The Telegraph, 2019. Feeling the heat? The economy might wilt in the sunshine too; The Times, 2019. Electricity imports at record high as new link allows cheaper deal; Daily Express, 2019. EU Bombshell: How the bloc 'imposed the HIGHEST electricity and gas bills on Britain'; World Economic Forum, 2018. Ten charts show how the world is progressing on clean energy. (also in Carbon Brief.); The Times, 2018. Onset of energy revolution 'creating two-tier economy'. (also in Irish News, The National, BusinessGreen, Utility Week, Edie.net); Independent, 2018. Brexit added £2bn to UK energy bills in year after referendum. (also in Platts and Utility Week); Metro, 2018. Green energy 'divide' puts London and Scots ahead; The Guardian, 2018. UK renewable energy capacity surpasses fossil fuels for first time. (also in Reuters, Bloomberg, Business Green); i News, 2018. More of UK's energy to come from renewable sources than fossil fuels within three years; Daily Mail, 2018. UK's renewable energy capacity has overtaken fossil fuels like coal and gas for the first time; |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019,2020,2021 |
Description | Research Highlight by Paul Sapin - "Technology options for a low-carbon energy system - how to make the best choice?" |
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 | Researcher Paul Sapin wrote the "Research Highlight: Technology options for a low-carbon energy system - how to make the best choice?" for the IDLES website. The EnergyPost.eu also requested to republish it on their website. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://energyfutureslab.blog/2020/09/23/research-highlight-technology-options-for-a-low-carbon-ener... |
Description | Roundtable and report - IPPR |
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 | Rountable event organised by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) on uncertainty in transport's path to Net-Zero. Expert panel included Dr Aruna Sivakumar, and her inputs and recommendations are included in a formal report produced by IPPR. The report examines the future of the transport sector and contains recommendations for policymakers on how to ensure that the sector does not miss the target of meeting Net-Zero by 2050. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.ippr.org/research/publications/where-next |
Description | School Visit to campus - STEM Potential |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | 2 x Lunchtime participation at STEM Potential, an Imperial College outreach programme for Year 10 school pupils (90 min each), where the 'Wattown' demonstrator was shown. The purpose was to engage and inform the pupils about energy, renewable energy, storage options and integration. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Science in the City talk to employees of Bank of America Merrill Lynch |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | About 30 employees of BAML attended the talk given by Marko Aunedi on the role of smart energy technologies in a low carbon future. The presentation included recent research from Imperial team, sparking a number of questions and interest for follow-up activities. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Science in the City talk to employees of Eden Tree Investment |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | About 20 employees of Eden Tree Investment (a company focusing on ethical green investment) attended the talk given by Marko Aunedi on the role of smart grids and flexible solutions in a low-carbon energy evolution. The presentation described the recent research from Imperial team, and was followed a number of questions and interest for follow-up activities. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Science in the City talk to employees of Hermes Investment |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | About 10 employees of Hermes Investment attended the talk given by Marko Aunedi on the role of smart energy technologies in a low carbon future. The talk presented the recent research in low-carbon energy systems, initiating a number of questions and a debate. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Seminars on work from Project 6 - "what has driven Britain's decarbonisation" - Prof Richard Green |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Professor Richard Green has delivered seminars on the work from WP 6.1. at Paris Dauphine University, The University of Bergen, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh and LSE, reaching roughly 30 people in each case. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
Description | The Forum & IfG EV 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 | Online event organised by The Forum (Imperial College London) and Institute for Government, specifically an expert panel assembled to discuss the question "How can the government achieve the UK's smooth transition to electric vehicles?" Panel included Dr Aruna Sivakumar (Imperial College London), Professor David Bailey (University of Birmingham), Philip New (Chair of the EV Energy Taskforce and former CEO of Energy Systems Catapult), Jeremy Yapp (Head of Flexible Energy Systems at BEAMA). Approximate 30 people attended in person, a mix of practitioners, industry representatives, researchers and policymakers. Over a 100 people attended the event online, and the youtube recording has 537 views. Given the nature of the panel event, audience were able to ask several questions and this sparked an interesting discussion. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/online-event/how-can-government-achieve-uks-smooth-t... |
Description | Two Documentary interviews Prof Christos Markides |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Professor Christos Markides interviewed for two episodes of the Discovery Channel programme, 'Disasters Engineered'. 1) Experts examine how the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and the Bhopal gas tragedy happened. What were the consequences and how could they have been avoided?" (January 2020); and 2) Focusing on nuclear energy and Fukushima (June 2020) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.discoveryuk.com/series/disasters-engineered/ |
Description | Virtual workshop Imperial - NTU |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | 25 UG and PG students attended a virtual workshop organised by the Imperial College's USL research group and NTU Singapore's LIFT research group, where we presented the data and analysis and tools that were jointly developed. This was followed by questions and discussion and the generation of ideas for further research that the participating students identified. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Website for PowBal project, within IDLES Project 3 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | The website shows development of the Powbal smart plug trial. What matters is increasingly not how much energy you consume, but when. Currently Powbal is in trial mode. We are running smart plug experiments with students and staff from Imperial College, LSE and University of Oxford. The website displays live the number of smart plugs that are in "demand-responsive" mode and power consumption. The site also provides an email point of contact and Twitter details for those interested in finding out more about the trial. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
URL | https://powbal.rcs.ic.ac.uk/ |
Description | Workshop presentation in South Korea |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Presentation by Dr Marko Aunedi to research and consultancy companies, in the workshop "Potential of Flexibility: today and beyond" organised in Seoul, South Korea. Purpose - Share UK's experiences in research into the role of flexibility in low-carbon energy systems. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |