Projects

• The project aims to understand the opportunities and challenges for electric heat to meet ongoing UK household requirements
• Project will build modelling software to analyse the interaction across UK housing architecture of heating systems, control systems, building fabrics, weather and consumer requirements
• The Energy Systems Catapult will deliver the project via EDF Energy who will build the new software based on their existing open source BuildSysPro modelling tool

Many modelling scenarios suggest electric heating could play an important part of a future decarbonised energy system. The Integrated Electric Heating Project aims to provide an understanding of the opportunities and challenges for electric heating to meet UK household requirements. Through this project EDF Energy will be tasked with developing a software package by extending the capability of their existing open source BuildSysPro modelling tool. With this newly developed software tool the Catapult and EDF Energy will jointly model the interaction across a number of domestic UK building archetypes and household types between the heating system, control system, building fabric, weather and consumer requirements.

The outputs from this modelling will highlight the specific opportunities and challenges of delivering low carbon heating solutions in UK homes whilst considering the needs of domestic residents. It will also enable the Catapult to undertake future detailed engineering analysis of current home energy/ heating systems and new heating technologies as they emerge.