Uncertainties in decarbonising heat in the UK

Chaudry, Modassar; Abeysekera, Muditha; Hosseini, Seyed Hamid; Jenkins, Nick; Wu, Jianzhong

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2015.07.019

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“…Similarly to studies on support mechanisms for electricity microgeneration (Smith et al, 2014), we found that a sense of risk and uncertainty around government funding may have a greater influence than the funding mechanism itself (e.g. grants, loans, pay for heat production) (Chaudry et al, 2015;Connor et al, 2015); considering that the majority of our households were applying retrospectively and complaints about the delay and misinformation about when the RHI would begin was common. In comparison to choosing to invest in electricity microgeneration, householders stressed the lack of maturity of heating technologies and subsequently local energy advice and impartial support was integral to inform their decision to choose an appropriate technology (e.g.…”

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confidence: 58%

“…Electricity is more versatile, partly because it can be sold back to the grid, and has been the focus of government's incentives schemes (Connor et al, 2015). However, heating is the single biggest use of energy in the UK and cannot be overlooked in strategies to meet legally binding renewable and carbon emission targets (Chaudry et al, 2015). The microgeneration technologies are ordered according to the number of households in our sample with each technology (Table 1), making it clear to the reader the amount of empirical data we base our results on and enabling us to compare the popularity of some technologies in our sample to national figures.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Conceptualising energy prosumption: Exploring energy production, consumption and microgeneration in Scotland, UK

Ellsworth-Krebs

Reid

2016

Environ Plan A

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Energy prosumption has become a common phrase as more householders and communities are producing and consuming their own electricity and heat. Prosumption is a combination of two words: production and consumption, and emerged as a concept at a time when consumers were beginning to be more proactive and take over steps traditionally thought of as ‘production’. In many ways, energy prosumption is nothing new (e.g. wood combustion), yet development of our modern energy system has changed the relationships between energy producers and consumers (e.g. smart meters, renewable energy production). Thus, there is a growing body of research interested in the motivation and conditions for the uptake of microgeneration technologies and the implications to energy infrastructures and big energy producers. However, this ‘energy prosumption’ scholarship generally lacks a strong conceptual foundation and misses the opportunity to build on existing prosumption literature and related debates. This paper brings the wealth of literature on prosumption into the energy context and reflects on the insights offered by a prosumption lens. Our study explores a particular manifestation of prosumption – when a household is simultaneously a producer and consumer of their heat and/or electricity via microgeneration – and we present data from semi-structured interviews with 28 households living with microgeneration technologies in Scotland, UK. Thus, we provide a robust framework from which future research on household and community energy prosumption can build.

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Conceptualising energy prosumption: Exploring energy production, consumption and microgeneration in Scotland, UK

Ellsworth-Krebs

Reid

2016

Environ Plan A

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“…In countries with important cooling needs as well as heating needs, the purchase of dual-heating/cooling heat pumps is facilitated, because it reduces the overall capital outlay required for heating and cooling. In the near future, government subsidies applied to heat pumps (and to their competitors, if applicable) will greatly affect the above comparison (Chaudry, Abeysekera, Hosseini, Jenkins, & Wu, 2015).…”

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Electricity market design for a decarbonised future

Poudineh¹,

Peng²

2017

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In recent years, the debate on electricity market design in the EU has focused on the fitness-for-purpose of the existing dominant design, the appropriateness of energy policy that underpins the existing market design, and on the process through which energy policy is coordinated with market design. In this paper, we contribute to this debate on all three levels. First, we propose a 'module-and-level'-based framework to illustrate our diagnosis of coordination issues present in the EU's power markets. We apply this framework to make a systematic identification of existing misalignments between the components of current market design and physical RES integration/financial RES support schemes. Secondly, we argue that the role of energy policy is not just in managing existing trade-offs between competitiveness, sustainability, and reliability, but also in encouraging innovations that increase the compatibility of energy policy objectives in the future. Finally, we propose a seven-step condition-dependent evolution of power market design, where the government/regulatory authority plays the role of meta-coordinator, matching the adaptation of market-based coordination modules with a hybrid future where distributed energy resources coexist with centralised generation, while decentralised market participants trade with each other and with incumbents.

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“…The decarbonisation of heat provision is one of the main challenges of broader climate change mitigation [1]. Heat is a significant end-use, for example in the UK space and water heating makes up 23% of final energy consumption and 55% of non-transport energy consumption [2].…”

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“…Heat is a significant end-use, for example in the UK space and water heating makes up 23% of final energy consumption and 55% of non-transport energy consumption [2]. It is also typically relatively carbon intensive, relying on fossil fuels such as natural gas [1], and is underpinned by long-established and low-cost incumbent technology such as boilers serving demand [3]. While alternative technology and fuel options certainly exist for heating, they are generally either significantly costlier [4], or require infrastructure build in the form of district level heat networks as installing components that cater to individual houses is not economically viable [5].…”

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The Techno-Economics of Small-Scale Residential Heating in Low Carbon Futures

Vijay

Giarola

2017

Energies

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Existing studies that consider the techno-economics of residential heating systems typically focus on their performance within present-day energy systems. However, the energy system within which these technologies operate will need to change radically if climate change mitigation is to be achieved. This article addresses this problem by modelling small-scale heating techno-economics in the context of significant electricity system decarbonisation. The current electricity market price regime based on short run marginal costs is seen to provide a very weak investment signal for electricity system investors, so an electricity price regime based on long run marginal energy costs is also considered, using a case study of the UK in 2035. The economic case for conventional boilers remains stronger in most dwelling types. The exception to this is for dwellings with high annual heat demand. Sensitivity studies demonstrate the impact of factors such as price of natural gas, carbon intensity of the central grid and thermodynamic performance. Fuel cell micro combined heat and power shows most potential under the long run electricity price regime, and heat pumps under the short run electricity price regime. This difference highlights the importance of future electricity market structure on consumer choice of heating systems in the future.

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Uncertainties in decarbonising heat in the UK

Cited by 92 publications

References 6 publications

Conceptualising energy prosumption: Exploring energy production, consumption and microgeneration in Scotland, UK

Conceptualising energy prosumption: Exploring energy production, consumption and microgeneration in Scotland, UK

Electricity market design for a decarbonised future

The Techno-Economics of Small-Scale Residential Heating in Low Carbon Futures

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