Sustainable Energy Management and the Built Environment Project Outputs

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Main Reports

Powering Our Lives: Sustainable Energy Management and the Built Environment: Final Report
Project final report and executive summary.

Powering Our Lives: Sustainable Energy Management and the Built Environment: Futures Report
This futures technical report is designed to provide information and insight into the Powering our Lives project development processes.

Powering our Lives: Sustainable Energy Management and the Built Environment: Stakeholder Engagement
Details of organisations who have committed themselves to engaging with the scenarios and the findings in the ways specified.

Powering our Lives: Sustainable Energy Management and the Built Environment Scenarios
A short overview of the project scenarios in leaflet format - Hardcopy only

As part of its evidence base, the Foresight project commissioned 60 state of science reviews. These papers have been published in a special issue of Energy Policy journal, Volume 36, Issue 12. The papers are listed below and can also be accessed at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03014215

Please click on the cross next to the relevant title to view the underlying reports.

• Introduction to the Sustainable Energy Management and the Built Environment Project
• Electricity Generation
  • Introduction to electricity generation section
  • Making a material difference in energy
  • Clean fossil-fuelled power generation
    
  • Carbon capture and storage
    
  • Generation IV nuclear power: A review of the state of science
    
  • Fusion
    
• Energy Distribution and Storage
  • Introduction to energy distribution and storage
  • Efficiency trends in electric machines and drives
  • Superconductors in the transmission of electricity and networks
  • Adaptive intelligent power systems: Active distribution networks
  • Energy-storage technologies and electricity generation
  • Hydrogen and fuel cells: Towards a sustainable energy future
  • Energy storage: The route to liberation from the fossil fuel economy?
  • New technology and possible advances in energy storage
• Renewable Energy
  • Introduction to renewable energy
  • Enabling science and technology for marine renewable energy
  • Bioenergy for heat and electricity in the UK: A research atlas and roadmap
  • Photovoltiac technologies
  • Wind power as a clean-energy contributor
  • What are the barriers and incentives for community-owned means of energy production and use?
  • Biofuels and the biorefinery concept
• Energy Demand Management
  • Introduction to energy demand management
  • How to change attitudes and behaviours in the context of energy
  • Demand side management: Benefits and challenges
  • Technologies to achieve demand reduction and microgeneration in buildings
  • Enabling technologies for industrial energy demand management
  • Enabling technologies for demand management: Transport
  • Promoting Household Energy Conservation
  • Re-materialising energy use through transparent monitoring systems
• Energy Efficient Buildings
  • Introduction to energy efficient buildings
  • State of the stock – What do we know about existing buildings and their future prospects?
  • Energy, equity and the future of the fuel poor
  • Regulatory standards and barriers to improved performance for housing
  • Altering existing buildings in the UK
  • Does demolition or refurbishment of old and inefficient homes help to increase our environmental, social and economic viability?
• Decentralised Systems
  • Introduction to decentralised systems
  • Centralised and distributed electricity systems
  • The implications of an increasingly decentralised energy system
  • De-centralised systems and fuel poverty: Are there any links or risks?
  • What changes, if any, would increased levels of low carbon decentralised energy have on the built environment?
  • Combined heat and power in industry and buildings
  • Regulatory frameworks for decentralised energy
• Innovative Construction and Built Form
  • Introduction to Innovative construction and built form
  • New build: Materials, techniques, skills and innovation
  • Future proof construction – Future building and systems design for energy and fuel flexibility
  • What is the relationship between built form and energy use in dwellings?
  • Strategies for the modification of the urban climate and the consequent impact on building energy use
  • Effects of climate change on the built environment?
  • Designing urban spaces and buildings to improve sustainability and quality of life in a warmer world
  • Infrastructure challenges for the built environment
• The Regulatory Context
  • Introduction to the regulatory context
  • Mapping out the regulatory environment and its interaction with land and property markets
  • A low carbon future: Spatial Planning’s role in enhancing technological innovation in the built environment
  • The impact of EU policies on energy use in and the evolution of the UK built environment
  • Security of supply and regulation of energy networks
• The Economy and Business
  • Introduction to the economy and business
  • How to support growth with less energy
  • Energy and economic growth: Grounding our understanding in physical reality
  • The role of built environment energy efficiency in a sustainable UK energy economy
  • The case for a new energy research, development and promotion policy for the UK
  • What are the risk-related barriers to, and opportunities for, innovation from a business perspective in the UK, in the context of energy management in the built environment?
  • Understanding business decision making on the environment
• Living in the Built Environment
  • Introduction to living in the built environment
  • What are the energy and power consumption patterns of different types of built environment?
  • Demographics, energy and our homes
  • Risk, resilience, and environmentally sustainable cities
  • The energy and monetary implications of the ‘24/7’ ‘always on’ society
  • What are the factors that could influence the future of work with regard to energy systems and the built environment?
  • Density and the built environment
  • Science review of internal combustion engines