Modelling future household energy use and fuel poverty: a scoping study

Completed

Energy Efficiency(Residential and commercial)
Other Cross-Cutting Technologies or Research(Environmental, social and economic impacts)

Basic and strategic applied research

SOCIAL SCIENCES (Sociology)
PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Physics)

Systems Analysis related to energy R&D (Energy modelling)

Professor P Ekins
UCL Energy Institute
University College London

Standard

ESRC

14 February 2005

13 February 2006

12 months

£47,025

No relevance to Underpinning Sectors

London

ESRC Energy

Professor P Ekins, UCL Energy Institute, University College London

Dr S Desner, Policy Studies Institute

Objectives not supplied

The Government has important commitments to reduce household carbon emissions by increasing energy efficiency, and to eliminate fuel poverty. Progress on these commitments is assessed by the generation of data and its application to models of household energy use. There are concerns about both the quality of available data and the reliability of the models. A feature of the forthcoming UK EnergyResearch Centre will be energy modelling activity intended both to bring together existing expertiseand to increase it substantially. This proposal will examine both existing data and models of household energy use, to draw initial conclusions about their adequacy and reliability for informing UK policy in this area and to lay the foundation for initial work in this area under the UKERC by forminga network of UK modellers and producing a project proposal for a joint modelling exercise to enable the models to be compared in more detail than this initial project will be able to do.

02/11/09