SUSTAINABLE CITY - ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF URBAN ENERGY DEMAND

Completed

Renewable Energy Sources(Wind Energy)
Energy Efficiency(Residential and commercial)
Renewable Energy Sources(Solar Energy, Photovoltaics)
Renewable Energy Sources(Solar Energy, Solar thermal power and high-temp. applications)
Other Power and Storage Technologies(Electric power conversion)
Renewable Energy Sources(Bio-Energy, Other bio-energy)

Basic and strategic applied research
Applied Research and Development

PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Physics)
PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Applied Mathematics)
PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Computer Science and Informatics)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Architecture and the Built Environment)
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES (Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences)
SOCIAL SCIENCES (Town and Country Planning)
SOCIAL SCIENCES (Sociology)

Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Environmental dimensions)
Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Policy and regulation)
Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Consumer attitudes and behaviour)
Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Technology acceptance)

Dr JA Halliday
Energy Research Unit
STFC (Science & Technology Facilities Council)

Standard

EPSRC

01 January 1997

31 March 2000

39 months

£190,108

Civil eng. & built environment

South East

Towards A Sustainable City -- Process Environment and Sustainability

Dr JA Halliday, Energy Research Unit, STFC (Science & Technology Facilities Council)

Professor PD Fleming, Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development (IESD), De Montfort University
Professor RK Turner, Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia

Project Contact, Leicester City Council

The aim of the project is to produce a GIS software tool that will allow utilities and urban planners to assess the impact of urban growth and to help manage that growth by optimisation of demand side management, energy saving measures, embedded generation and renewable resources. the project will concentrate on a particular UK city. The first step towards this aim will be a detailed statistical analysis of urban energy demand for a cross section of different consumers. Consumption will be analysed as a function of time-of-day, day-of-week and season. Attitudes towards various energy management strategies will be assessed. This social aspect will be important in estimating the uptake of energy management measures. The GIS software tool will act as a 'front-end' to a simulation model which will be devised to assess energy flows and pollution within the area and how they might be affected by different energy management scenarios. The simulation model will incorporate demand side management (DSM) measures such as variable tariffs, embedded generation such as photovoltaic panels and energy savings strategies such as low-energy light bulbs. Account will be taken of infrastructure limitations, capital and running costs to assess the optimal strategy for a given growth scenario

04/06/07