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Value Management - Overcoming barriers to smarter heat solutions in UK homes - final report


Citation Frontier Economics Value Management - Overcoming barriers to smarter heat solutions in UK homes - final report, ETI, 2015. https://doi.org/10.5286/UKERC.EDC.000507.
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Author(s) Frontier Economics
Project partner(s) Frontier Economics Limited
Publisher ETI
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/UKERC.EDC.000507
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Abstract This project studied how value can be delivered across a smart energy value chain - in the context of the UK. It built a clear understanding of how smart energy systems can deliver combined consumer value alongside commercial value for market participants - producers, suppliers, distributors. The analysis will help to make the commercial deployment of smart energy systems more likely. This £600,000 project was delivered by Frontier Economics, a leading economic consultancy.

This document was prepared at the time to contribute to ETI internal thinking and planning only it should be read in the context of the final reports of the Building Retrofit Project

This is the final report from WA4 of the project. Key points:
  • Businesses can be well placed to make it easier for consumers to choose low–carbon interventions.
  • Policy support is also required to tackle the fact that some low-carbon interventions currently cost more and in some cases provide fewer benefits to consumers, relative to the incumbent options.
  • Whether subsidies in excess of the carbon price would be justified, depends on the extent to which we believe:
  • there are wider benefits from low-carbon heating interventions, such as improvements to health and wellbeing;
    • the costs of heat pumps and solidwall insulation will be driven down by the growth of the UK market (rather than global growth); and
    • there are no alternative, more cost-effective options across the energy system for meeting carbon targets.
    These issues would need to be examined further,before a case could be made.
  • District heat will also require policy support.
There are 11 annexes to this report, which are available as separate documents.
  • Annex 1a: Case studies
  • Annex 1b: Analysis of existing policy
  • Annex 1c: Energy efficiency and low-carbon heating in Germany
  • Annex 2a: Qualitative policy analysis
  • Annex 2b: Cost benefit analysis of policies
  • Annex 3a: Modelling customer uptake (including attitudes to risk)
  • Annex 3b: Payback period drivers
  • Annex 3c: Factors affecting intervention take-up order
  • Annex 3d: Elements of business model offerings
  • Annex 3e: Assumptions on current and future levels of insulation
Associated Project(s) ETI-SS1401: Smart Systems and Heat (SSH) Programme - Value Management and Delivery
Associated Dataset(s) No associated datasets
Associated Publication(s)

List of projects for the ETI Smart Systems and Heat (SSH) Programme

SSH Stagegate 1 - Review of International Smart Systems and Heat Initiatives - Final Report

Value Management - Characterisation of the Current Energy Value Chain (WA4 D1)

Value Management - Future Business Models: Options and Analysis

Value Management - Overcoming barriers to smarter heat solutions in UK homes - Annex 2a: Qualitative policy analysis

Value Management - Overcoming barriers to smarter heat solutions in UK homes - Annex 3a: Modelling customer uptake (including attitudes to risk)

Value Management - Overcoming barriers to smarter heat solutions in UK homes - Annex 3b: Payback period drivers

Value Management - Overcoming barriers to smarter heat solutions in UK homes - Annex 3c: Factors affecting intervention take-up order

Value Management - Overcoming barriers to smarter heat solutions in UK homes - Annex 3d: Elements of business model offerings

Value Management - Overcoming barriers to smarter heat solutions in UK homes - Annex 3e: Assumptions on current and future levels of insulation

Value Management - Overcoming barriers to smarter heat solutions in UK homes. Annex 1a: Case studies.

Value Management - Overcoming barriers to smarter heat solutions in UK homes. Annex 1b Analysis of existing policy

Value Management - Overcoming barriers to smarter heat solutions in UK homes. Annex 1c: Energy efficiency and low-carbon heating in Germany

Value Management - Overcoming barriers to smarter heat solutions in UK homes. Annex 2b: Cost benefit analysis of policies

Value Management - Request for Proposals