Smart Systems and Heat
Created future-proof and economic local heating solutions for the UK.
What we have done
Projects
Consumer Behaviour Study
This project was led by PRP Architects, experts in the built environment and provided insight into consumer requirements for heat and energy services
Data Management and Systems Architecture
Hitachi Europe and energy & sustainability consultants DNV Kema each worked on a £100k contract to produce two different perspectives on the data system functionality and architecture for a smart energy system
Enabling Component Technologies
This project was delivered by a consortium of partners that included Hitachi Europe, EDFEnergy, Element Energy, David Vincent & Associates and Imperial Consultants - to identify any gaps in the range of potential smart systems technologies
Integrated Electric Heating Project
The Integrated Electric Heating Project provided a modelling tool to evaluate the opportunities and challenges for electric heating to meet UK household requirements. The tool was used to create and evaluate upgrade pathways for a small number of housing archetypes informed by detailed information gathered from dwelling participating in the…
Building Retrofit
This project retrofitted five types of domestic property, identified and prioritised in an earlier ETI project focused on thermal efficiency in UK housing
EnergyPath Networks
Energy consultancy Baringa Partners designed and developed a software modelling tool for use in planning local area energy systems
EnergyPath Economics
Management consultancy Europe Economics developed a modelling framework to evaluate the wider social and economic impacts of energy transitions in a local area
EnergyPath Operations
DNV GL and a partnership of Hitachi & EDF developed the specification for an EnergyPath Operations software model to better understand the ICT and system solutions required to deliver new home heating solutions
Value Management and Delivery
This £600k project announced in February 2013 was led by Frontier Economics, a leading economic consultancy and studied how value can be delivered across a smart energy value chain
Home Energy Management System (HEMS)
This project aimed to accelerate the development of a consumer-orientated Home Energy Management System (HEMS) to give insight into consumer energy use, building and heating system performance providing a secure and flexible platform that enables others to test and develop new energy services
Consumer Insights
This project provided an understanding of consumer behaviour relating to the decisions they make on heating choice
Planning Permission
This project reviewed the existing planning policies in the UK to plan for a future smart systems and heart market
Consumer Segmentation
This project built on the preliminary segmentation developed in the Consumer Response & Behaviour Project and the Consumer Insights Project to identify how consumers buy and use energy and upgrade their boilers
Local Area Energy Planning
The EnergyPath Networks tool was demonstrated with three selected local authorities Newcastle, Bridgend and Greater Manchester Combined Authority resulting in an Area Strategy developed for all three
High Frequency Appliance Disaggregation Analysis
The High Frequency Appliance Disaggregation Analysis project analysed real world data from the ETI’s Home Energy Management System in five homes to gather detailed energy data from water, gas and electricity use
Insights
News
- ETI releases new report to support the UK’s transition to…
- ETI insights reveal that rethinking the way we buy heat…
- ETI commissions new partners to broaden its analysis of future…
- Energy Systems Catapult bolstered by transfer of ‘whole energy systems’…
- Decarbonising domestic heat is one of the most cost effective…
Reference Library
- Alex Buckman presents 'Heat Network Infrastructure Innovations to Reduce Capital…
- An ETI Perspective - Tools for Future Energy Systems
- 10 Years of Innovation conference & exhibition - Smart Systems & Heat
- An ETI Perspective - The importance of local area planning…
- ETI's Chief Engineer Andrew Haslett presented 'Decarbonising energy with higher…