Characterising energy demand profiles for future low-carbon homes

英国目前正面临着极具挑战性的家庭脱碳目标，特别强调低碳供暖形式。与此同时，英国国家能源系统的碳强度正在发生重大变化，特别是国家电网，其碳强度在短短十多年内降低了约50%。这在很大程度上是通过增加可再生能源实现的。因此，这幅图为研究人员提供了一个有趣的困境：如何提出一个强有力的途径，以适应需求方和（特别是加热）技术和供应方技术，允许一个强大的，表示“低”之义碳未来得到保证。该项目将通过将能源绩效证书数据与经验能源数据结合起来，为不同住房类别创建典型的需求概况模板来解决这个问题。该项目还将试图解决使用、热惯性和加热/储存技术的多样性问题，以便确定已确定的需求概况类别中的需求灵活性机会。在这样做的过程中，将提出一种方法，可以解决与加热技术（特别是，但不仅仅是，热电气化）的快速过渡相关的许多问题，因为我们在英国家庭走向低碳和零碳加热的道路上。

The UK is currently faced with extremely challenging targets for decarbonising our homes, with a particular emphasis on forms of low-carbon heating. For both new build and retrofits of existing buildings, the scale of required change is unprecedented.At the same time, the UK is seeing significant change in the carbon intensity of our national energy systems; particularly the National Grid, where carbon intensity has reduced by approximately 50% in just over a decade. This has, largely, been achieved through an increase in renewables. This picture therefore provides an interesting dilemma for a researcher: how can a robust pathway be proposed that accommodates changes to both demand-side (particularly heating) technologies and supply-side technologies that allows for a robust, low-carbon future to be assured.This project will approach this problem by bringing Energy Performance Certificates data with empirical energy data to create typical demand profile templates for different housing categories. The project will also attempt to address diversity of use, thermal inertia, and heating/storage technologies, so that demand flexibility opportunities available from the identified demand profile categories will be ascertained. In doing so, a methodology will be presented that can address many of the problems associated with a rapid transition of heating technologies (particularly, though not solely, electrification of heat) as we journey on a path towards low and zero carbon heating in UK homes.