An exploration of the system implications of the large scale deployment of hybrid heat pumps in UK housing

该项目旨在对混合热泵的成本和性能的驱动因素，以及它们对英国供暖脱碳的影响和潜在作用进行战略理解。混合热泵已经成为解决电力驱动热泵用于家庭供暖部署的多重限制的一种可能方式。其中包括：需要避免配电网过载；能够动态地将家庭热需求转换为电力以外的矢量的可取性；以及与英国现有供暖系统的温度要求相匹配的可取性。在伍斯特博世的支持下，并借鉴系统架构文献，学生将开始绘制混合热泵成本和性能的工程驱动因素，与竞争系统相关。然后，他们将使用多种能源系统模型来探索混合动力对更广泛的能源系统的影响，作为电气比（CH4或H2）和控制策略的函数，目的是阐明：混合动力对能源系统可操作性、弹性、累积成本和温室气体排放的影响。混合动力的战略意义，包括对英国天然气和电力网络的负荷因素和收入流的影响。在整个项目中，学生将与多个能源系统利益相关者合作，了解系统需求并将上述发现置于背景中。

This project seeks to develop a strategic understanding of drivers of cost and performance of hybrid heat pumps, and of their impacts on, and potential role in the decarbonisation of heating in the UK.Hybrid heat pumps have emerged as a possible way to address multiple constraints on the deployment of electrically-driven heat pumps for domestic heating. These include: the need to avoid overloading the electricity distribution grid; the desirability of being able to dynamically switch domestic heat demand to a vector other than electricity; and the desirability of matching the temperature requirements of existing heating systems in the UK housing stock.With the support of Worcester Bosch, and drawing on the System Architecture literature, the student will begin by mapping the engineering drivers of hybrid heat pump cost and performance, in relation to competing systems. They will then use multiple energy system models to explore impacts of hybrids on the wider energy system, as a function of electricity-to-gas ratios (CH4 or H2) and control strategy, with the aim of illuminating:the impact of hybrids on energy system operability, resilience, cumulative cost and GHG emissions on the route to net zero;the strategic implications of hybrids including impacts on load factors on and revenue flows to UK gas and electricity networks.Throughout the project, the student will work with multiple energy system stakeholders to understand system requirements and contextualise findings from the above.