Consortium for Modelling and Analysis of Decentralised Energy Storage

Project: Research

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Description

Around 80% of the UK population lives in urban areas, with cities being responsible for about 70% of UK energy use. As a consequence, the importance of cities in tackling key energy and environmental targets is increasingly being recognised. However, meeting these targets will require much of the urban infrastructure to be adapted and renewed to meet the increasing demands for energy services from city residents, while making the transition to a low-carbon economy. Two key challenges for urban infrastructure are: (i) meeting the expected increase in demand for (low carbon) electricity (including new sources of demand for heat and transport), while integrating a variety of (often variable) renewable supply options (including building integrated PV and wind systems) and (ii) increasing the proportion of low carbon heat (and potentially coolth) supply to homes and offices, with likely sources of low carbon heat including air source heat pumps and combined heat and power and district heating schemes using biomass and waste heat.

Various forms of decentralised electricity and heat storage could play an important role in meeting these challenges through helping to match supply and demand over periods from seconds to days, maximising the utilisation of existing and new infrastructure, providing links between heat and electricity systems so allowing trade-offs between the two and ensuring secure energy supplies. However, we currently have a poor understanding of the optimal deployment configurations and applications for decentralised electricity and heat storage within the urban environment, any changes to the policy and regulatory environment that would be needed to remove barriers to their deployment, the business models and revenue streams that might make a commercial proposition and the public attitudes to the deployment of different types of storage.

This project will use a variety of tools and methods, including technology validation, techno-economic modelling, innovation studies and public attitude surveys, to address specific barriers to the deployment of city-scale energy storage and demonstrate these methods and tools through a number of case studies analysing opportunities for energy storage deployment in the cities of Birmingham and Leeds. The novelty and adventure of our approach can be found both within the individual work packages and in the way that the findings are integrated together and applied in the case studies. So for example, our techno-economic modelling will consider specific (rather than generic) distributed energy storage technologies based on validated data from laboratory and field trials and not idealised data from the literature; our work on policy, regulatory and business models will draw on the real-world experience of our project partners in trying to make a business from operating distributed energy storage in current and likely future market conditions and our work on public attitudes will be the first study of its kind in the UK to examine distributed energy storage.
AcronymC-MADEnS
StatusFinished
Period01.10.1501.04.19

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  1. A Smart Sensing Architecture for Misalignment Measurements
  2. Towards a Heuristic for Scheduling Offshore Installation Processes
  3. A Model Based Feedforward Regulator Improving PI Control of an Ice-Clamping Device Activated by Thermoelectric Cooler
  4. Drawing as a Generative Activity and Drawing as a Prognostic Activity
  5. The Use of Anti-Windup Techniques in Didactic Level Systems
  6. Geometric Properties on the Perfect Decoupling Disturbance Control in Manufacturing Systems
  7. A sensorless control using a sliding-mode observer for an electromagnetic valve actuator in automotive applications
  8. Experimental analysis of measurement process for a QCM using the pulse coincidence method
  9. The Automated will
  10. Automatic generation of periodic representative volume elements for matrix-inclusion composites and their efficiency in multiscaling
  11. Concurrently Observed Actions Are Represented Not as Compound Actions but as Independent Actions
  12. The role of supervisor support for dealing with customer verbal aggression. Differences between ethnic minority and ethnic majority workers
  13. Intelligent software system for replacing a force sensor in the case of clearance measurement
  14. Magnesium recycling: State-of-the-Art developments, part II
  15. CaO dissolution during melting and solidification of a Mg-10 wt.% CaO alloy detected with in situ synchrotron radiation diffraction
  16. Feel the Music! Exploring the Cross-modal Correspondence between Music and Haptic Perceptions of Softness
  17. Self-Compassion as a Facet of Neuroticism? A Reply to the Comments of Neff, Tóth-Király, and Colosimo (2018)
  18. A switching model predictive control for overcoming a hysteresis effect in a hybrid actuator for camless internal combustion engines
  19. Wavelet characterizations for anisotropic Besov spaces
  20. Anonymized Firm Data under Test: Evidence from a Replication Study
  21. Simulation of stresses during casting of binary magnesium-aluminum alloys
  22. Privacy-Preserving Localization and Social Distance Monitoring with Low-Resolution Thermal Imaging and Deep Learning
  23. A microsystem for growth inhibition test of Enterococcus faecalis based on impedance measurement
  24. Using an adaptive memory strategy to improve a multistart heuristic for sequencing by hybridization
  25. High temperature deformation mechanisms and processing map for hot working of cast-homogenized Mg-3Sn-2Ca alloy
  26. Assessing pre-travel online destination experience values of destination websites
  27. Analysis of life cycle datasets for the material gold
  28. Using Long-Duration Static Stretch Training to Counteract Strength and Flexibility Deficits in Moderately Trained Participants
  29. Compression behavior of typical silicone rubbers for soft robotics applications at elevated temperatures
  30. Exploring intrinsic, instrumental and relational values for sustainable management of social-ecological systems
  31. Intra-firm Wage Compression and Cost Coverage of Training
  32. Using a Bivariate Polynomial in an EKF for State and Inductance Estimations in the Presence of Saturation Effects to Adaptively Control a PMSM
  33. Combination of a reduced order state observer and an Extended Kalman Filter for Peltier cells
  34. Improving Flood Forecasting in a Developing Country
  35. A transfer operator based numerical investigation of coherent structures in three-dimensional Southern ocean circulation
  36. Investigation of the Controllability of Inductive Power Transmission Systems based on Flexible Coils
  37. Confidence levels and likelihood terms in IPCC reports
  38. Optimal scheduling for Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV) in blocking job-shops
  39. Natural enemy diversity reduces temporal variability in wasp but not bee parasitism
  40. Unusual two‐bond 13C, 13C coupling constants in sulphones
  41. Elastomeric Prepregs for Soft Robotics Applications
  42. Predicting the future performance of soccer players
  43. Open Innovation in Schools
  44. Testing for a break in the persistence in yield spreads of EMU government bonds
  45. CubeQA—question answering on RDF data cubes
  46. Fluorometer controlled apparatus designed for long-duration algal-feeding experiments and environmental effect studies with mussels
  47. Careless responding detection revisited
  48. Selecting methods for ecosystem service assessment