Off grid, decarbonised energy supplies for temporary buildings

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The project involves the decarbonisation of the fuel supplies required to support heating and energy management of temporary buildings. Large numbers of temporary and remote installations are utilised to support a variety of applications, including the construction and energy generation industries. Currently, these buildings are either directly connected to the utility grid, where available, or powered from standalone generators (usually diesel powered). Typically, this approach leads to a high carbon footprint for the temporary installations, with undesired pollution, especially when some remote installations are at ecologically sensitive sites. The project aims to investigate the whole energy system of these installations to develop holistic approaches to the energy generation and control, relying on low carbon fuels for generation and energy storage to backfill the generational dead times which typically occur with green generation (PV, Wind etc).