Energy Revolution Research Consortium - Core - EnergyREV

气候变化委员会对英国在实现碳预算方面的最新评估显示，英国的排放量比1990年的水平低41%。英国政府的工业战略白皮书指出，这是在经济增长三分之二的情况下实现的。在我们实现与1990年水平相比至少减少80%的过程中，委员会表示，我们必须每年至少减少3%的排放量。他们还表示，尽管取得了上述进展，但我们目前还没有走上实现2023-27年碳预算的轨道。显然，要履行我们在这一领域的法定义务，需要作出重大的进一步努力和创新。与此相一致，政府的产业战略将清洁增长确定为一项重大挑战，其中指出：“我们将在电力、供暖和交通运输领域开发廉价和清洁能源的智能系统……我们将启动新的产业战略‘从能源革命中繁荣’计划，以发展世界领先的本地智能能源系统，在电力、供暖和交通运输领域提供更便宜和更清洁的能源”。工业战略还指出，清洁增长中的创新对于低成本、低碳的基础设施系统以及实现提供经济效益所需的工业机会至关重要。作为对此的回应，工业战略挑战基金(ISCF)启动了从能源革命中繁荣(PFER)方案。它的重点是提供(到2022年)可投资和可扩展的当地商业模式，这些模式使用综合方法为更繁荣和更具弹性的社区提供更清洁、更廉价的能源服务。由此产生的智能本地能源系统也应该使整个国家能源系统受益。它的目标还是未来投资规模是本世纪20年代本地综合能源系统投资的十倍，而不是像往常一样，同时创造现实世界的试验场，加快新产品和服务的完全商业化。这些活动的一个主要内容是建立英国在综合能源供应方面的领导地位。为了支持该项目，英国能源研究所发起了建立能源研究联盟(EnergyREV)的呼吁，以支持这一旅程。在伯明翰举行了一次讲习班，以组建和塑造该联合体，并开始拟订这项提案。由此产生的EnergyREV联合体是多元化和高度多学科的，包括88%被选为工作坊的研究人员。EnergyREV将与能源系统弹射器合作，在示范者和示范者设计项目(由PFER计划资助)的整个生命周期内支持并向其提供信息；进行分析和评估，建立和推动最佳实践，并通过与政策、学术和工业社区的国内和国际接触来领导知识交流。此外，EnergyREV还制定和定义了一项应用跨学科研究的战略方案，旨在在整个能源系统和智能本地能源系统领域取得重大成果。这将为公司和政府未来的能源投资提供信息。它将协调和整合英国现有的世界级知识、研究团队和设施，并通过这一点提供建议、研究和创新支持，以帮助确保项目的成功。

The Committee on Climate Change's most recent assessment of the UK's progress towards meeting its carbon budgets shows that UK emissions are 41% below 1990 levels. The UK Government's Industrial Strategy white paper states that this has been achieved while the economy has grown by two thirds. In our journey to meeting a reduction of at least 80% compared to 1990 levels, the Committee states that we must reduce emissions by at least 3% a year. They also say that despite the above progress we are not currently on track to meet the 2023-27 carbon budget. Clearly, significant further effort and innovation is required to meet our statutory obligations in this area. In line with this, the Government's Industrial Strategy identifies Clean Growth as a grand challenge stating "We will develop smart systems for cheap and clean energy across power, heating and transport ... We will launch a new Industrial Strategy 'Prospering from the energy revolution' programme to develop world-leading local smart energy systems that deliver cheaper and cleaner energy across power, heating and transport". The Industrial Strategy also points out that Innovation in clean growth is critical for low cost, low carboninfrastructure systems, and for realising the industrial opportunities needed to deliver economic benefits. In response to this the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) has launched the Prospering from the Energy Revolution (PFER) programme. It is focused on delivering (by 2022) investable and scalable local business models which use integrated approaches to deliver cleaner, cheaper, energy services for more prosperous and resilient communities. The resulting smart local energy systems should also benefit the national energy system as a whole. It also targets a ten times larger future-investment in local integrated energy systems versus business as usual in the 2020s while creating real world proving grounds to accelerate new products and services to full commercialisation. A major element of the activities is building UK leadership in integrated energy provision. To support the PFER programme, UKRI launched a call to establish the Energy Research Research Consortium (EnergyREV) to support this journey. A workshop was held in Birmingham to form and shape the consortium and to initiate the development of this proposal. The resulting EnergyREV consortium is diverse and highly multidisciplinary, incorporating 88% of the researchers who were selected for the workshop.EnergyREV will work with the Energy Systems Catapult to enable and inform demonstrators and demonstrator design projects (funded by the PFER programme) through their lifetime; undertaking analysis and evaluation, building and driving best practice and, leading knowledge exchange through national and international engagement with policy, academic and industrial communities. Further to this, EnergyREV has shaped and defined a strategic programme of applied interdisciplinary research which aims to achieve significant outputs in the areas of whole energy systems and smart local energy systems. This will inform future energy investment by companies and Government. It will coordinate and integrate existing UK world-class knowledge, research teams and facilities, and through this provide advice, research and innovation support to help ensure the success of the PFER programme.