End Use Energy Demand Centres Collaborative Projects

最终用途能源需求中心是RCUK能源计划的3000万英镑投资，2013年至2018年期间有25个机构的200多名研究人员。2015年，各方一致认为，六个中心就关键主题开展的协作将为各中心的工作增添额外价值。这里概述了5个合作项目，这些项目将在剩余的资助期（2016年春季至2018年春季）运行。资金是灵活的，以便董事可以最大限度地利用它。分析超市能源数据-将结合联合收割机的知识和三个中心CEE，CSEF和i-STUTE的技能，以创建一个更清晰的图片超市能源使用在英国，然后可以告知政策和行业对未来的能源需求决策。建立一个火用经济学研究方案-国际能源发展中心和国际能源发展中心地图中心的专家将联合收割机，提高对这一新兴研究领域的认识和能力建设（重点是能做功的能源，而不是消耗的所有能源），以期为该领域今后的工作奠定基础。减少工业能源需求的热泵和热能储存技术-该项目将联合收割机结合三个中心（CSEF、i-STUTE和CIE-MAP）的专门知识，进一步考虑热泵、吸附式制冷和热能储存技术对工业部门能源效率和脱碳的潜在贡献。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.概念化可持续发展结构，创新和需求- 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探讨这一主题，但目前的研究-例如，关于城市规模创新，关于区域和家庭供暖的途径，关于新的机构/基础设施连接（例如围绕电动汽车），以及关于需求的峰值和模式-正在产生一系列重要的跨领域问题，涉及空间，时间和规模。5.无形能源政策：新的干预机会-政府政策的许多不同领域-保健、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有着切实的影响。DEMAND和CIE-MAP将联合收割机的力量，以帮助阐明和确定我们所说的“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.