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.