Questions from the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy:
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Energy Security, Systems and Strategy
What are the challenges in getting households and electric vehicles to participate at scale in energy markets (barriers and solutions from a purely market entry perspective – not a social perspective)?
Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, 2020
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Energy Security, Systems and Strategy
What is the role of bulk storage technologies under different scenarios of wind build out i.e. the possible duration of periods of low wind and low solar irradiance across large parts of Europe? Could such periods become more frequent/severe in the coming decades as climate change alters conventional weather patterns?
Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, 2020
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Energy Security, Systems and Strategy
What is the consumer appetite for different energy business models (energy as a service, trading models such as peer-to-peer etc)? What consumers would need for these to be successful; and what benefits these could bring to the system as a whole?
Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, 2020
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Clean electricity
Does local generation lower the costs of moving to a net-zero emissions economy, or are the necessary electricity system upgrades required to electrify of heat & transport so dramatic that the system upgrades are required in any scenario?
Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, 2020
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Clean electricity
What are the potential cost reductions due to new technology developments in innovative and pre-commercial renewables technologies? Such as, but not limited to, marine technologies, floating offshore wind, and bi-facial/tracking solar.
Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, 2020