Projects
Projects: Projects for Investigator |
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| Reference Number | ES/T000112/1 | |
| Title | JPI Urban Europe/NSFC: Socio-Techno-Economic Pathways for sustainable Urban energy develoPment | |
| Status | Completed | |
| Energy Categories | Other Cross-Cutting Technologies or Research(Environmental, social and economic impacts) 100%; | |
| Research Types | Basic and strategic applied research 100% | |
| Science and Technology Fields | SOCIAL SCIENCES (Economics and Econometrics) 25%; SOCIAL SCIENCES (Politics and International Studies) 25%; SOCIAL SCIENCES (Development Studies) 25%; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Electrical and Electronic Engineering) 25%; |
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| UKERC Cross Cutting Characterisation | Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Policy and regulation) 25%; Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Consumer attitudes and behaviour) 25%; Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Technology acceptance) 25%; Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Other sociological economical and environmental impact of energy) 25%; |
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| Principal Investigator |
Professor RJ (Richard ) Green No email address given Business School Imperial College London |
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| Award Type | Standard | |
| Funding Source | ESRC | |
| Start Date | 01 May 2019 | |
| End Date | 30 April 2022 | |
| Duration | 36 months | |
| Total Grant Value | £304,217 | |
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| Region | London | |
| Programme | Society & Global Security | |
| Investigators | Principal Investigator | Professor RJ (Richard ) Green , Business School, Imperial College London (99.998%) |
| Other Investigator | Professor G (Goran ) Strbac , Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London (0.001%) Dr F Teng , Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London (0.001%) |
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| Industrial Collaborator | Project Contact , Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands (0.000%) |
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| Objectives | This project proposes to investigate the urban energy transformation in an integrated Socio-Techno-Economic framework that covers multiple stakeholders (governing body, enterprises and citizens), multiple sectors (electricity, gas, transport and heating/cooling), multiple spatial levels (national, city and community) and multiple time-scales (long-term planning, short-term operation and real-time control). The project "STEP-UP" will utilise and share between the research partners the wealth of data and knowledge already gathered in previous and on-going projects as a foundation on operation, use, carbon reduction potential and best business practice for sustainable urban energy systems. The overall aim is to provide an integrated planning and deployment strategy for multipurpose urban energy system and its enabling infrastructure in EU and Chinese cities, which is supported by these objectives:1. To develop simulation tools for testing low-carbon urban energy market regulations by using agent-based market simulation methodology and probabilistic models for behaviour of actors.2. To demonstrate business models emerging from intelligent urban energy system as well as the exploitation of demand flexibility, making use of in depth case study analysis of specific services.3. To develop data-driven short and long-term demand forecasting models, that integrate multi-spatial, multi-temporal and multi-sector.4. To develop decentralized control algorithms that balance the efficiency of decisions and risk of cyber-attacks.5. To create an integrated strategic planning evaluation framework to assess environmental, level of service and economical performance of urban energy system from a multi-stakeholder perspective.6. To identify the sources of risk and uncertainty affecting transitions to sustainable urban energy system operations for the multiple stakeholders involved and investigate robust and stochastic optimisation techniques to address the challenges of infrastructure planning.7. To understand the role of various storage technologies in efficient and resilient operation and planning of urban energy system.8. To provide roadmaps for EU and Chinese metropolitan areas for gradually up-scaling sustainable energy system in an efficient way. | |
| Abstract | The rapid urbanisation in developing counties including China has created substantial environmental and social problems. In the EU, cities accommodate over 70% of the population and urban systems face similar challenges and must deal with a strong built-in inertia within physical, regulatory and societal infrastructure that makes the transition to sustainable development challenging. Sustainable urban development in the context of economic transformation and climate change needs to be underpinned by the transformation of urban energy systems. The fundamental question is what is the optimal structure for an efficient, clean and resilient urban energy system? The design and operation of sustainable urban energy system is a complex task, since it relies not only on technology innovation, but also on policy making, market design and business cases. The fast electrification and digitalization of urban system leads to close links among multiple sectors, both positively and negatively. At the same time, the successful urban energy transformation cannot be achieved in an isolated way. The coordination between cities as well as between the city and the nation is required. Last but not least, as the fundamental element of the urban system, citizens will play a central role in such transformation. By allowing citizens to directly be engaged in creating the solutions, it may lead to a faster and improved acceptance of such services, with end users gaining a greater sense of empowerment and ownership. However, there is lack of quantitative evidence to inform the governing bodies and policy makers to support the citizen-centric approaches.In this context, this project brings together the experts from the EU and China in economics, social science and engineering to develop a comprehensive assessment framework to investigate the optimal Socio-Techno-Economic pathways towards an efficient, clean and resilient urban energy system. The project covers multiple stakeholders (governing body, enterprises and citizens), multiple sectors (electricity, gas, transport and heating/cooling), multiple spatial levels (national, city and community) and multiple time-scales (long-term planning, short-term operation and real-time control). The focus is to identify the barriers and potential solutions from the technology, market, regulation and policy. Cities in EU and China with distinguished features allow speculating the finding of the research beyond the geographical areas where it is carried out. | |
| Publications | (none) |
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| Final Report | (none) |
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| Added to Database | 10/07/19 | |
