Abstract

The residential sector produces more than 25% of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions and, according to the IPCC 4 ^th Assessment Report, has one of the greatest potentials for economic mitigation action. UK policy initiatives such as the Code for Sustainable Homes and the Carbon Emissions Reduction Target (CERT) have been developed for the sector. The Code for Sustainable Homes will require all new dwellings from 2016 to achieve "zero carbon" status, whilst CERT motivates efficiency and some microgeneration measures in the retrofit arena. This paper presents relevant developments in UK energy policy, and outlines an optimisation-based framework for selection and integrated control of appropriate suites of technologies to meet low carbon targets in the residential sector. The framework will develop and consider factors such as technical characterisation, stakeholder rationale, spatial distribution/resolution of measures and policy, and how policy intervention can be modelled effectively. It will enable timely analysis relevant to technology developers, construction and refurbishment industries, landlords, DNOs, suppliers, and policy makers.

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Panel 2. Policy implementation: learning from the past, improving the future

Panel 1. The foundations of future energy policies: Initiating change and breaking walls

Panel 3. Monitoring & evaluation: understanding change and how to deliver energy efficiency

Panel 4. Residential and commercial sectors: delivering lower energy use in buildings

Panel 5. Energy efficiency in industry

Panel 6. Energy efficiency in transport and mobility

Panel 7. Innovative buildings technologies

Panel 8. Dynamics of consumption