Energy Systems Catapult

Energy Systems Catapult has been working on the following activities, set among the key themes of the Researchers in Residence scheme:

Net Zero

  • Quantifying the costs of intermittency and the value of a flexible energy system
  • Developing the digital standards and protocols and market designs, that enable a decentralised, flexible energy system 
  • Novel behavioural science frameworks and routes to gather data for exploring consumer behaviour
  • Lifecycle and carbon accounting methodologies (sector-specific or general)
  • Using emerging digitalisation and artificial intelligence technologies to simplify the decarbonisation challenge
  • Architecture and methodologies for enabling effective data exchange/coordination between models (e.g. digital twins) of disparate fidelities 
  • Novel applications of data analytics and machine learning to complex energy usage, weather and similar datasets
  • Supply-chain requirements for large-scale transformations of the energy system
  • Improving understanding of land use trade-offs and associated emissions; and recommendations for modelling methodologies.
  • Modelling and analysis of bioenergy value chains
  • Application of geospatial analysis methodologies to energy system changes
  • Improved methodologies for energy infrastructure modelling (accounting for nonlinear relationships)
  • Improved methodologies for modelling multi-vector integration in the energy system
  • Application of improved combinatorial optimisation approaches to complex systems problems
  • Accelerated dynamic modelling of domestic and commercial building energy performance
  • Novel approaches for large-scale rapid surveying/acquisition of data on existing assets to inform energy technology/efficiency interventions 
  • Business model innovation to drive increased uptake of low carbon energy solutions
  • Innovative energy policy and regulation development (esp. to minimise costs and GHG emissions, and improve social equity)
  • Application of game theory (or similar) to understand better the impacts of policy and regulatory design on market outcomes and the robustness of novel business models

Health and Wellbeing

  • Inclusive innovative smart energy products
  • Creating a Fair Future in the transition to Net Zero

Resilience

  • Operability of the future decentralised flexible Net Zero energy system
  • Assessment of energy system resilience to future extreme weather and climate scenarios

For interest in any of these topics please email jon.saltmarsh@es.catapult.org.uk. For more information about the Energy Systems Catapult, visit the Energy Systems Catapult website.