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What are the household and business views on domestic heating and energy efficiency?

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Beis areas research interest interim update 2020

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  • REFIT: Personalised Retrofit Decision Support Tools for UK Homes using Smart Home Technology

    Thermal efficiency retrofit options, appliance upgrades and on-site renewables represent a significant opportunity to deliver energy demand reductions to UK homes. The potential to reduce thermal heat losses through insu...

    Funded by: EPSRC

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project provides personalised, accurate and trustworthy predictions of energy saving measures for UK homes using smart home technology.

  • Developing new predictive models to automate the generation of personalised actions to improve home efficiencies

    We have developed a solution for benchmarking the heating inefficiencies of homes through thermal imaging. This creates a calculation which considers the heat loss, water quality, heating system health and retrofit sugge...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on developing predictive models to improve home efficiencies and achieve Net Zero, aligning with the question on household views on domestic heating and energy efficiency.

  • KestrixHOME: engaging, 3D home heat-loss visualisations to inspire retrofit action

    Energy utilities, who will finance £1B+ in home retrofits for customers through 2026(4) and require even more uptake from able-to-pay customers in order to meet net zero goals, recognise that existing tools for dri...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project aims to engage residents in retrofit actions through 3D home heat-loss visualizations, addressing the question on household views on domestic heating and energy efficiency.

  • People, Energy and Buildings: Distribution, Diversity and Dynamics (PEB:D3)

    To enable the UK to meet legally binding carbon targets and establish a resilient and secure energy system, the coming decades need to see an historic transition: the almost complete decarbonisation of energy supply, the...

    Funded by: EPSRC

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project aims to develop tools to better understand the interplay between human factors, new technologies for dwellings, and new sources of energy in the context of achieving carbon targets and refurbishing the housing stock.

  • Home Heat Insight Project

    Lo Works is on a mission to change how homes are heated. Ensuring that everyone can afford to have a warm home and without burning fossil fuels. This starts with the digitization of heating systems, creating a new produ...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

  • IDEAL: Intelligent Domestic Energy Advice Loop

    Reducing energy demand from existing dwellings through occupant behaviour change is crucial for meeting UK carbon emission reduction targets. Dwellings account directly for 32% of UK energy consumption, and corresponding...

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  • Household Inclusive Approaches to Domestic Decarbonisation

    **Household Inclusive Approach to Domestic Decarbonisation** Our project aims to reshape how households approach energy efficiency and decarbonisation. Recognising the challenges homeowners face, we're proposing an incl...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

  • Heat as a Service for Retrofit

    This project explores the use of novel algorithms to inform a Heat as a Service (HaaS) business model. The project will demonstrate how the HaaS business model will accelerate energy retrofit and heat supply solutions in...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

  • Consumer-Appealing Low Energy Technologies for Building Retrofitting ('CALEBRE')

    The UK domestic sector is responsible for almost 40% of national carbon emissions. Any serious attempt to reduce these emissions must recognise the fact that the rate of housing stock renewal is slow, that space and wate...

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  • Reframing Energy Demand: Innovation for Sustainable Heat

    As part of the UK's response to the threat of climate change, the UK Government has set out a radical plan to end the emission of greenhouse gases from all buildings by 2050. Achieving this will mean confronting two long...

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