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The Freedom Project: hybrid heating trials

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Event
  • Session
  • Tuesday, 22 May 2018
  • 13:22 - 13:22
  • Duration: 15 mins
  • Publication date: 04 Jun 2018
  • Location: Network Theatre, NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Utility week Live 2018

About the session

Heating our homes accounts for almost 25% of the UK’s carbon emissions, while process heat accounts for 40% of  industrial energy use.  If the UK is to meet its 2050 carbon reduction targets, industry will need to explore new solutions for reducing emissions from heat.  This seminar will explore the latest trials and demonstrators leading the search for solutions to decarbonizing heat.

Chair: Keith McLean, Founder and Managing Director, Providence Policy 

Keywords:
  • decarbonisation
  • electricity
  • energy
  • energy storage
  • hybrid heating sytems
  • smart cities
  • smart meter
  • storage
  • western power

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Speakers

  • IR

    Ian Rose

    PassivSystems, Professional services director

    Ian Rose – Professional Services Director, has over 20 years’ experience in the utilities sector, shaping and delivering technology and service projects. He has responsibility for developing new service models and propositions that exploit the capabilities of HEMS in the domestic energy and heat markets. He leads Passiv’s work on the development of innovative demand control propositions and has been responsible for delivering the successful projects supported through InnovateUK, DECC and LCNI funding. Current projects include the LCNI funded Freedom Project, modelling the UK impact of hybrid heating technologies with advanced controls, and the EU funded Smart Energy Islands Project, working with Hitachi to deliver optimised solutions for PV generation, heating control and battery storage that integrate with generation and transport demand on the Isles of Scilly.
  • OL

    Oliver Lancaster

    Wales & West Utilities, Future energy project manager

    Oliver Lancaster is a Future of Energy Project Manager, leading the Freedom Project for Wales & West Utilities – a large scale demonstration trial of smart hybrid heating systems in the Bridgend ‘living heat lab’ in south Wales. Delivered alongside electricity network Western Power Distribution, it is the first collaborative future of energy project between gas and electricity networks. He has also led Wales & West Utilities work on developing the first national flood map to understand the impact climate change could have on the gas network.Before managing projects that will prepare the energy system of the future, Oliver worked on dealing with the legacy of the gas industries past as an Environmental Scientist and Consultant and Remediation Engineer. He also has significant experience in land management, stakeholder engagement, and was the Chair of IGEM Wales Section in 2014-15.
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