End Use Energy Demand Centres Collaborative Projects

最终使用能源需求中心是RCUK能源计划的3000万英镑投资，在2013-2018年期间，有超过25个机构的200多名研究人员。2015年，各方同意六个中心在关键主题上的合作将为中心的工作增加额外价值。这里概述了5个合作项目，这些项目将在剩余的资助期内（2016年春季至2018年春季）运行。资金是灵活的，以便董事们能最大限度地利用它。分析超市能源数据-将结合三个中心CEE， CSEF和i-STUTE的知识和技能，创建英国超市能源使用的更清晰的画面，然后可以为政策和行业未来的能源需求决策提供信息。建立一个关于能源经济学的研究项目——CIED和CIE-Map中心的专家将联合起来，提高人们对这一新兴研究领域的认识和能力建设（该领域的重点是可以工作的能源，而不是所有的能源消耗），以期为该领域未来的工作奠定基础。减少工业能源需求的热泵和热能储存技术-该项目将结合该中心的三个专业知识（CSEF， i-STUTE和CIE-MAP），进一步考虑热泵，吸收式制冷和热能储存技术对能源效率和工业部门脱碳的潜在贡献。该项目还将确定未来的研究和开发需求，以改善这些技术的热经济性能。4. 基础设施、创新和需求的概念化——demand和CIED都关注基础设施和实践的创新，以及这些动态对能源和移动需求的影响。虽然这两个中心从不同的角度研究这个主题，但目前的研究——例如，城市规模的创新，区域和家庭供暖的途径，新的制度/基础设施连接（例如围绕电动汽车），以及需求的峰值和模式——正在产生一系列与空间、时间和规模有关的重要交叉问题。5. 无形的能源政策：新的干预机会——政府政策的许多不同领域——卫生、教育、国防、福利和经济政策，仅举几例——对能源需求和流动模式产生了切实的影响。DEMAND和CIE-MAP将联合力量，帮助阐明和确定我们称之为“无形”能源政策的关键领域。

The End Use Energy Demand centres are a £30m investment of the RCUK Energy Programme, with over 200 researchers across over 25 institutions running from 2013-2018. In 2015 it was agreed that collaborative work across the six centres on key themes would add extra value to the centres' work. 5 collaborative projects are outlined here, of the type that will run in the remaining funding period (spring '16 - spring '18). The funding is flexible so that the Directors can use it to greatest effect.1. Analysing SuperMarket Energy Data - will combine the knowledge and skills of three centres CEE, CSEF and i-STUTE to create a clearer picture of supermarket energy use in the UK which can then inform policy and industry on future energy demand decisions.2. Establishing a research programme on exergy economics - CIED and CIE-Map centre experts will combine to raise awareness and build capacity of this emerging field of research (which focusses on energy that can do work as opposed to all energy expended) with a view to laying foundations for future work in the field.3. Heat pump and thermal energy storage technologies for industrial energy demand reduction - This project will combine the expertise of three of the centre (CSEF, i-STUTE and CIE-MAP) to consider further the potential contribution of heat pumps, sorption refrigeration and thermal energy storage technologies for energy efficiency and decarbonisation of the industrial sector. The project will also identify future research and development needs for the improvement of the thermoeconomic performance of these technologies. 4. Conceptualising Infrastructures, innovation and demand - DEMAND and CIED are both concerned with innovations in infrastructures and practice, and with the implications of these dynamics for energy and mobility demand. Whilst the two centres approach this topic from different angles, current research - for instance, on city scale innovation, on pathways to district and home heating, on novel institutional/ infrastructural conjunctions (e.g. around electric vehicles), and on peaks and patterns of demand - is generating a series of important cross-cutting questions to do with space, time and scale. 5. Invisible energy policy: new opportunities for intervention - Many different areas of government policy - health, education, defence, welfare and economic policy to name but a few, have tangible consequences for energy demand and for patterns of mobility. DEMAND and CIE-MAP will combine forces to help articulate and identify critical areas of what we describe as 'invisible' energy policy.