Data For Sustainable Energy (D4SE) Pathways Grant : Business analysis and marker research

可再生能源项目交付起来可能很复杂。影响可再生能源项目成功的因素不仅仅是技术上的，还有政治上的。例如，浅层地热项目受到斜坡、地质和渗透率等技术参数的影响，但也受到一些限制因素的影响，这些限制因素旨在使项目既安全又为当地居民所接受，例如靠近主要基础设施或位于特殊科学兴趣地点等保护区内；杰出自然风景区；国家公园等。Data4SustainableEnergy （D4SE）旨在通过将所有这些信息来源汇编在一起，并评估一个网站对许多不同类型的可再生能源技术的适用性，来帮助解决这个问题。该系统提供了在该地点采用哪种最佳技术的建议，并提供了一个单一的分数，即使没有专业地质知识的用户也能理解。控制资源和限制的各种因素的权重是通过一种称为多标准决策分析的技术方法来评估的，该技术方法由为安装可再生能源技术提供建议的专家提供建议。这些输出使用webGIS呈现给最终用户。然而，该系统有许多潜在的最终用户——拥有单一站点的土地所有者，目标是实现收入最大化和安装支出最小化——拥有多个站点的土地所有者，寻求为最佳站点选择最佳技术——可再生能源行业顾问和安装人员，帮助他们为客户提供建议并实现收入最大化——地方当局寻求控制土地使用以获得最大利益。这些用户中的每个人在他们需要的数据和数据的精确呈现方式方面都有一些不同的需求。我们还需要了解：-每个群体如何使用所提供的信息来帮助他们的业务，-整个市场的规模，因此存在的机会和- BGS可能合理收取的潜在费用，以获得这些信息。市场研究将帮助我们了解参数，然后量化未来发展这个想法的最佳方法。

Renewable energy project can be complex to deliver. The factors that affect the successes of a renewable project are not just technical but also political. For example, shallow geothermal heat projects are affected by technical parameters like slope aspect, geology and permeability but also constraints intended to make project both safe and acceptable to the local population, such as proximity to major infrastructure or within protected area likes Sites of Special Scientific Interest; Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty; National Parks etc. Data4SustainableEnergy (D4SE) is intended to help solve this problem by compiling all of these information sources together and assesses the suitability of a site for many different types of Renewable Energy Technology. The system provides advice as to which is the best technology to pursue on that site and provides a single score which can be understood by a user without specialist geological knowledge. The weighting of the various factors that control both the resources and the constraints are assessed using a technical approach called Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis advised by experts who advised on installation of renewable energy technologies. These outputs are presented using a webGIS to end users. However there are many potential imaginable end-users for this system - Landowners with single sites to develop aiming to maximise revenue and minimise installation expenditure- Landowners with multiple, site seeking to choose the best technology for the best site - Renewable energy industry consultants and installers to help them advise clients and maximise revenue - Local authorities seeking to control land use to greatest benefit. Each of these users has somewhat different requirements in terms of the data that they need and precisely how it is presented. We also need to understand:- how each group might use the information that is provided to aid that business, - the scale of the total market and thus the opportunity that is present and - the potential charges that BGS could reasonably charge for access to this information Market research will help us understand the parameters and then quantify the best approach for developing this idea in the future.