In a short blog, during Big Energy Saving Week, Professor Jacopo Torriti, University of Reading tells us how time-of-use tariffs could help meet peak energy demand and make reaching net zero more straightforward and affordable.
The full article can be found here.
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Jacopo is joined by Haris Doukas an Associate Professor of energy policy and management at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
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International Conference on Sustainable Development in the Building and Environment (SuDBE) is an International Academic Conference in the field of the Built Environment. It was founded by Chongqing University and has been held for 10 consecutive sessions, including the University of Reading and the University of Cambridge. Topics include low-carbon green buildings; green civil structures and underground engineering; healthy and comfortable indoor environment; low-carbon construction; low-carbon energy systems; smart operation and maintenance; urban sustainability and low-carbon ecological development.
The 10th International Conference on Sustainable Development in Architecture and Environment (SuDBE2021) was held in Chongqing on December 10th to 12th, 2021. The theme of the conference was “Green Building Helps Emission Peak and Carbon Neutrality”, aiming to help the country’s “dual carbon” strategy and practice green and low-carbon development.
A total of 21 Conference Keynote Reports and 7 Thematic Forums were set up in this Conference. 150 experts from 9 countries and regions including China, the United Kingdom, Norway, Germany, Finland, and Sweden were invited to make academic reports.
At the same time, the Conference also set up two sub-forums of Student Speech Contest. The themes of the two sub-forums were green building and energy saving as well as indoor environment and thermal comfort. 56 students from more than 20 universities, including University of Reading, Tsinghua University, Chongqing University, Southeast University and Tianjin University gave wonderful academic reports on their personal research. The students actively expressed their academic views and shared their academic ideas.
According to the scores of on-site experts, each of these two thematic forums finally selected 1 first prize, 2 second prizes and 5 third prizes of the Best Academic Report Award.
Wenbo Wang won second prize in sub-forum speech competition by presenting his research. He aims to develop a robust and fast microclimate modelling approach that can be used to predict detailed spatial distributions of flow, temperatures, and scalar fields inside complex urban areas at district scale.
In his research, a simulation method adopting a zonal nodal airflow network model for urban microclimate predictions was proposed to support a range of urban planning options in quickly at district scales. The zonal model provides relevant information on climatic variables for strategic decision makings process at the early stages of building design and development. The outside space surrounding buildings is divided into finite number of air zones that exchange mass and energy through interface separating them. Additionally, Satellite image recognition and data processing based on raster data format are introduced to quickly build or modify information models of buildings and the surrounding environment used
for simulation.
The purpose of this role is to support the Investigators in undertaking the EPSRC funded Sustainable Heavy Duty Truck, Marine and Rail Transport (SMaRT) project, namely through conducting agent-based modelling of the spatial and temporal power network loading from delivering electricity derived transport ‘fuel’.
Applications should be submitted by 02/02/2022.
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Professor Jacopo Torriti was interviewed about soaring energy prices which has now been published in the latest article published by inews.
To read the full article please click this link – ‘There’s been nothing like this’: Soaring energy prices in 2021 sent suppliers bust and hiked customers’ bills (inews.co.uk)
An exciting opportunity to join a project at the forefront of research into Energy Demand Flexibility has become available. We are looking for a post-doctoral research fellow to join our research team for a 1 year post, looking at data on electricity demand and Time of Use tariffs.
This is a 1 year, full-time, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (PDRF) on Flexibility in Energy Demand. The post is funded under the Flexibility Theme of the Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions (CREDS). CREDS is a UKRI Energy Programme funded initiative with a budget of £19.5 million involving 13 universities, with a core team based at the University of Oxford. The post is based at the School of the Built Environment, University of Reading. The candidate will benefit from being part of a wider research community both within the Energy and Environmental Engineering Research Group at the University of Reading as well as part of the CREDS community.
For more information about this post and how to apply, please click this link – https://jobs.reading.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=8874
Professor Jacopo Torriti was asked to comment on a couple of questions about the future of electricity which have now been published in the latest article published by Eco Experts.
To read the full article please click this link – The New Heat Pump Grant: Is It Good Enough? (theecoexperts.co.uk)
Dr. Stefan Smith, University of Reading, UK and Dr. Kiran Bhaganagar, University of Texas, USA are guest editors in the special issue of Atmospheric Science Letters, inviting papers on the topic of “Air Pollution at the Indoor-Outdoor interface for Built Environments”.
For further information , please click on this link.
Flora Samuel and Lorraine Farrelly have secured £901K of funding through the AHRC for the Community Consultation for Quality of Life Project, a consortium led by the University of Reading including Cardiff, Ulster and Edinburgh in collaboration with the Quality of Life Foundation, Commonplace and Urban Symbiotics.
For more detail see www.ccqol.org
On Saturday 6th November, Dr Timur Yunusov and Dr Mehdi Shahrestani attended the COP26 event in Reading. Members of the public were able to ask them both questions regarding approaches to reducing energy consumption and energy-related CO2 emissions from homes as well as decarbonisation and heating systems. It was an interesting experience, some of those who came to ask questions, were interested and keen to make a positive contribution. However, they found that they could not find a practical way for insulation and airtightness of buildings, especially in old Victorian buildings. Lack of expertise and incentive in these areas was the main point that came across from participants. In addition, there was very limited understanding of the approaches for decarbonisation of heating systems in buildings and what can be done in rented properties.
At the end of the event, the feedback gathered was shared with the organisers, and it was agreed to have another public event especially focusing on the decarbonisation of heating and reducing energy demand in buildings.
