Research Councils UKEnergy Programme

For a Low Carbon Energy Future

End Use Energy Demand Workshop

23rd March 2011

Energy Programme Mission

Key Targets:80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.15% of energy from renewable sources by 2020.Increases in energy efficiency.

Drivers:Tackling climate change by reducing carbon dioxide emissions both within the UK and abroad.Ensuring energy security.Ensuring energy affordability.

To position the UK to meet its energy and environmental targets and policy goals through high quality research and postgraduate training.

Research Councils

To advance knowledge and technology, and provide trained scientists and engineers, to meet the needs of users and beneficiaries thereby contributing to the economic competitiveness and quality of life of the United Kingdom.

Knowledge, People, Society, Economy

Supporting an research community that is fit for purpose

Training highly skilled people for Government, Local Government, industry and academia

Support evidence based policy and legislation

Generating wealth by encouraging exploitation

‘End-use Energy Demand’

This embraces energy efficiency measures, reduction in demand for energy, and reduction in demand for energy services / mobility - all of which will contribute to reducing carbon emissions from energy use. It includes research extending from the built environment to industrial processes and products, from materials to design and from markets and regulation to organisational and individual behaviour.

UK Carbon Footprint

UK Carbon Footprint

Objectives of today

To review the current portfolio.

To help define the shape of the future portfolio to contribute towards the objectives of the Energy Programme.

To help define the means by which the desired portfolio might be achieved.

To allow networking and research community building to take place.

Agenda

Morning:

Welcome

 Keynote presentation: Professor Geoff Hammond (Bath):The role of end-use energy demand reduction in transition pathways to a UK low carbon future.

 International review of energy.Jacqui Williams(RCUK Energy Programme)

 Current research portfolio and analysis. Dave Holtum (RCUK Energy Programme)

 Breakout Sessions

Networking opportunities /Lunch

 

Agenda

Afternoon:

Keynote presentation: Professor Kevin Anderson (Manchester). Quantifying the challenge: what role for energy demand in a low-carbon transition

 RCUK EUED Programme: Dave Holtum (RCUK Energy Programme)

 Breakout Sessions

 Wrap-up

Research Councils UKEnergy Programme

International Review of Energy

Purpose and timescale

• Benchmark the strength of UK research activity

compared to world competitors

• Highlight any gaps or missed opportunities

• Provide a broad perspective on the UK’s research activity in a particular discipline or area

• To aid all stakeholders with future planning

• Visiting international panel of 16 experts – October

2010 – led by Carsten Westergaard, Vestas. Brian

Norton, Dublin Institute of Technology for EUED

• Town meeting held to present results 18 January 2011

High level findings

Across almost all areas the panel found interesting, leading-edge and world class research. The excellent international reputation of UK research is deservedly earned.

Good value is being delivered but in terms of impact on economic benefit, industry development and quality of life much more can be done.

Weaknesses arise because of a lack of a sustained long term coherent energy research programme across the different funding bodies and the lack of clear mechanisms for moving from research to early demonstration, application and deployment.

High level recommendationsA fully integrated “roadmap” for UK research targets

A single, well defined, cross-Councils energy research budget to provide a common vision and strategy to the research community and to avoid conflicting priorities

More transparent allocation process for strategic programmes to ensure better/optimal research community involvement, thereby secure deliverables

There needs to be increased efforts to identify opportunities, provide funding and then promote, recognize and reward interdisciplinary R&D.

More attention and resources directed to career paths both in industry and academia for multidisciplinary work

R&D on demand reduction needs a higher profile in the R&D portfolio, and may warrant a dedicated programme.

Demand reduction specifics

Demand side and energy efficiency needs to be aggressively pursued by the UK in order to meet its goals – dedicated programme may be required.

RCUK should develop a programme of research that seeks transformative step-changes in space heating, domestic water heating and industrial process heating techniques.

RCUK should increase funding to the retrofit of existing building fabrics and processes and long term technology development.

RCUK should fund research to identify the potential for electrification and to identify targets for replacing the use of fossil fuels with electricity where reductions in CO2 emissions will result.

Demand reduction specifics cont

RCUK should identify the UK priorities for demand response and indentify technology needs and R&D gaps to enable this technology.

Continue funding the valuable R&D on consumer acceptance and adoption of new technologies.

Cross-disciplinary research is needed to ensure successful retrofitting projects, in particular architects should be trained to use building simulations models.

Support industry- academia joint applied research on benchmarking and improving industrial process efficiency and reduction of carbon footprints of industrial processes.

Next steps

Further background information, together with the presentations from town meeting are available at www.rcuk.ac.uk

Report will soon be available at www.rcuk.ac.uk

Research Councils and other funding bodies are developing a response and action plan that will be published.

Research Councils UKEnergy Programme

Contribute to ESRC’S future

ESRC’s strategy development

Seven cross cutting challenges have been sharpened into 3 priorities

Economic Performance and Sustainable Growth

Influencing Behaviour and Informing Interventions

A Vibrant and Fair Society

Currently no reference to energy.

Contribute

You can relay comments:

– directly to the ESRC Project Team (email: priorities2011subgroup@esrc.ac.uk)

– via the web, click on ‘Working Together’ on ESRC’s home page.

Why?

The priorities will provide a focus our activities and direct a proportion of our future budget.

We remain committed to supporting the best ideas generated by responsive-mode funding opportunities, which are not directed at present, but which could potentially be in the future.

Research Councils UKEnergy Programme

Current Portfolio & Breakouts

The Energy Landscape

Public Sector organisations working together to provide coordinated activity and a complete innovation chain. Coordinated through the Low Carbon Innovation Group led by DECC.

ResearchApplied research and development

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Strategy Planning and Management

The Councils working together strategically over the last three spending reviews.

Brings together all our energy-related activities.

High level input from a Scientific Advisory Committee: industry, academic, TSB, DECC & BIS representation.

Links to other Research Council priority themes such as Living with Environmental Change and Global Uncertainties.

BBSRC

STFC

EPSRC

ESRCNERC

Working together

across the Councils to

plan and support energy

research and training

The Research Councils working together to plan, develop and deliver energy research and training within a common strategic framework.

TSB

Pioneering a Low Carbon Future

£567 million invested in skills,

research and knowledge transfer

£483 million for research

grants

£84 million for doctoral

training

All Councils Commitment Portfolio Total portfolio £567M

Solar9%

Bioenergy7%

Ground Heat1%

Energy Efficiency Industry5%

Energy Efficiency Domestic7%

Transport6%

Energy Storage2%

Fuel Cells4%

Hydrogen3%

Combustion3%

Nuclear Fusion11%

Nuclear Fission7%

Whole Systems8%

Social, economic and policy2%

Climate Change2%

Wind2%

Marine1%

Power electronics3%

Conventional Plant2%

Carbon capture and storage6%

Oil and Gas1%

Sustainable networks (renewables

6% Note: excludes ETI

Growth in Annual Expenditure by Research Theme, 2002-2009

Growth in support by theme

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Social Economic and Policy

Nuclear

Conventional Energy Sources

Power Networks

Sustainable Energy Vectors

Energy Demand Reduction

Renewable Energy Sources

Distribution of EUED Awards by Number

  Social Factors

Whole Systems

Policy & Practice

Technological

Factors

Total

Industry 1% 2% 2% 15% 20%

Transport 8% 4% 4% 11% 27%

Buildings 20% 5% 9% 19% 52%

Total 28% 12% 15% 45% 100%

SWOT: Weaknesses

Application of social science to end-use energy demand in industry.

 Policy research in all areas.

Social scientists as principle or co-investigators (somewhat addressed by the Energy and Communities call)

Any industry outside the process industry.

International connections

Lack of basic science interest.

Coherent end-user energy demand community across all disciplines.

 Limited cohesive research strategy with other funders. PES, TSB, ETI, DECC.

SWOT: Strengths

Buildings research - using understanding of human needs to define technological needs.

Underlying technology community (including ICT).

 Strong Industrial cofunding and collaboration

Process Industry research

SWOT:Opportunities

Networking amongst researchers within and across communities

Stimulating basic science, manufacturing and service researcher communities.

Centre development in Buildings and Process Industries.

Building International links.

Continued support for established groups in policy, social science and whole systems

SWOT: Threats

Lack of overall strategy could lead to lack of funding

Research may be too late.

Centres could disintegrate.

What Research - Breakouts

In themed groups:

Buildings (Chris White)

Transport (Nick Cook)

Industry (Dave Holtum)

Economics/Policy/Legislation (Owen Dowsett)

Digital Economy/ICT (Hannah Foreman)

People (Paul Rouse)

Whole System (Jacqui Williams)

What Research - Breakouts

Identify research topics

Cluster into descriptive themes

Plot on Importance v Capability Diagram

Relative Importance (Y axis): Alignment to government strategy, Impact, Research gap, market etc.

Relative Capability (X axis): International standing of research, size of existing groups, number of research grants, training ability etc.

Interdisciplinary insight and comment on Importance V Capability diagrams.

Research Councils UKEnergy Programme

Sub Programme Shape

‘End-use Energy Demand’

This embraces energy efficiency measures, reduction in demand for energy, and reduction in demand for energy services / mobility - all of which will contribute to reducing carbon emissions from energy use. It includes research extending from the built environment to industrial processes and products, from materials to design and from markets and regulation to organisational and individual behaviour.

EUED Programme?

Is there a EUED community?

Should there be a coordinated programme?

What should it look like?

How would we deliver it?

Strategic Mechanisms in last CSR

• E.ON Sandpits (£10milion)• EDF People Energy and Buildings (£4million)• Transforming Energy Demand through Digital

Innovation (with DE programme) (£9 million)• Thermal Management in the Process

Industries (£6 million)• Energy and Communities (£6 million)• Transport Sandpits and Grand Challenges in Airports,

Walking and Cycling, Shipping, Behaviour and Storage (£15million)

• SUE Consortia (£6 million)• Doctoral Training Centre (£5million)

Some Possible Activities

Calls for Proposals

Consortia Building Workshops

Sandpits

Stage Gated Grand Challenges

Centres

Single Grants

Consortia

Networks, Fellowships, DTCs

SUPERGEN

INTERDISCIPLINARY/INTERSECTORAL CONSORTIA (OR Centres)

INDUSTRIAL

INFRASTRUCTURE

BUILDINGS

OTHERS

Network and Stakeholder Involvement

Expert Centres/Sectoral Consortia

Expert Centres:

Economics, Behaviour, Policy etc.

Sectoral Consortia:

Buildings, Transport, Industry etc.

Network and Stakeholders:

How would you commit £ 40 million over the next 4 years in end-use energy demand?