ForeSight

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.

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

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• 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