Centre For Sustainable Energy

As society moves towards Net Zero, some people will easily participate in the energy transition, others, either by choice or factors outside their control, will not. To ensure an equitable transition, energy networks need to cater for all consumers. For the first time, VERIFY will combine data on networks, properties, consumer demographics and smart meter...

Rural communities face challenges in decarbonising heating systems are more vulnerable to climate change impacts and more likely to be Worst Served Customers (WSCs). Decarbonising these areas could increase electricity demand, exacerbating resilience issues, especially for WSC. Strengthening the electricity network in these areas would be expensive and ta...

Energy efficiency retrofits rolled out by Local Authorities (LAs) and Social Housing Providers (SHPs), such as home insulation and storage heating, represent an opportunity to procure flexibility from disadvantaged households that are typically not able to participate in flexibility markets. Flex Direct aims to develop a new way to procure this type of fl...

Bristol people and businesses are very concerned about climate change. They want to be part of the solution, see changes which benefit their communities in other ways and have affordable, accessible ways to make a difference. Many businesses and six communities have already created their own Climate Action Plans to describe the changes they want to make h...

Solar PV is one of the most commercially viable net zero technologies for building energy decarbonisation. Yet despite huge potential only 3.3% of the UK's 29m homes have installed systems. Uptake is hampered by uncertainty over site and rooftop viability and a lack of local, trusted information and support. To accelerate the growth of solar power to the ...

Awaiting Public Project Summary

Smarter power systems need consumers to engage willingly with a range of new service offers from power system interests to manage demand and shift and/or reduce demand peaks. This project will seek to understand what is needed to secure that engagement from domestic consumers. It will market test a range of potential smart services across two dimensions: ...

The rollout of smart electricity meters heralds an explosion in the quantity and resolution of meter data: 500Bn consumption datapoints annually contrasts with the current volume of some 100M meter readings. If leveraged effectively the resulting dataset can support the transition to a low carbon economy by improving the efficiency, sophistication and spa...