Reports and publications

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 (PDF, 2.6 Mb)  
Project final report and executive summary.

Powering Our Lives: Sustainable Energy Management and the Built Environment: Futures Report (PDF, 1.6 Mb)  
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 (PDF, 294 Kb)  
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

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• Introduction to the Sustainable Energy Management and the Built Environment Project (PDF, 75 Kb) 
• Electricity Generation
•    Introduction to electricity generation section (PDF, 58 Kb) 
•    Making a material difference in energy (PDF, 1.7 Mb) 
•    Clean fossil-fuelled power generation (PDF, 735 Kb) 
•    Carbon capture and storage (PDF, 511 Kb) 
•    Generation IV nuclear power: A review of the state of science (PDF, 1.3 Mb) 
•    Fusion (PDF, 383 Kb) 
  
• Energy Distribution and Storage
•    Introduction to energy distribution and storage (PDF, 59 Kb) 
•    Efficiency trends in electric machines and drives (PDF, 156 Kb) 
•    Superconductors in the transmission of electricity and networks (PDF, 214 Kb) 
•    Adaptive intelligent power systems: Active distribution networks (PDF, 904 Kb) 
•    Energy-storage technologies and electricity generation (PDF, 330 Kb) 
•    Hydrogen and fuel cells: Towards a sustainable energy future (PDF, 1.0 Mb) 
•    Energy storage: The route to liberation from the fossil fuel economy? (PDF, 158 Kb) 
•    New technology and possible advances in energy storage (PDF, 278 Kb) 

• Renewable Energy
•     Introduction to renewable energy (PDF, 59 Kb) 
•     Enabling science and technology for marine renewable energy (PDF, 787 Kb) 
•     Bioenergy for heat and electricity in the UK: A research atlas and roadmap (PDF, 309 Kb) 
•     Photovoltiac technologies (PDF, 565 Kb) 
•     Wind power as a clean-energy contributor (PDF, 133 Kb) 
•     What are the barriers and incentives for community-owned means of energy production and use? (PDF, 138 Kb) 
•     Biofuels and the biorefinery concept (PDF, 160 Kb) 

• Energy Demand Management
•     Introduction to energy demand management (PDF, 59 Kb) 
•     How to change attitudes and behaviours in the context of energy (PDF, 184 Kb) 
•     Demand side management: Benefits and challenges (PDF, 348 Kb) 
•     Technologies to achieve demand reduction and microgeneration in buildings (PDF, 191 Kb) 
•     Enabling technologies for industrial energy demand management (PDF, 394 Kb) 
•     Enabling technologies for demand management: Transport (PDF, 300 Kb) 
•     Promoting Household Energy Conservation (PDF, 130 Kb) 
•     Re-materialising energy use through transparent monitoring systems (PDF, 238 Kb) 

• Energy Efficient Buildings
•     Introduction to energy efficient buildings (PDF, 59 Kb) 
•     State of the stock – What do we know about existing buildings and their future prospects? (PDF, 244 Kb) 
•     Energy, equity and the future of the fuel poor (PDF, 145 Kb) 
•     Regulatory standards and barriers to improved performance for housing (PDF, 196 Kb) 
•     Altering existing buildings in the UK (PDF, 148 Kb) 
•     Does demolition or refurbishment of old and inefficient homes help to increase our environmental, social and economic viability? (PDF, 1.0 Mb) 

• Decentralised Systems
•     Introduction to decentralised systems (PDF, 59 Kb) 
•     Centralised and distributed electricity systems (PDF, 367 Kb) 
•     The implications of an increasingly decentralised energy system (PDF, 129 Kb) 
•     De-centralised systems and fuel poverty: Are there any links or risks? (PDF, 128 Kb) 
•     What changes, if any, would increased levels of low carbon decentralised energy have on the built environment? (PDF, 145 Kb) 
•     Combined heat and power in industry and buildings (PDF, 149 Kb) 
•     Regulatory frameworks for decentralised energy (PDF, 146 Kb) 

• Innovative Construction and Built Form
•     Introduction to Innovative construction and built form (PDF, 59 Kb) 
•     New build: Materials, techniques, skills and innovation (PDF, 125 Kb) 
•     Future proof construction – Future building and systems design for energy and fuel flexibility (PDF, 328 Kb) 
•     What is the relationship between built form and energy use in dwellings? (PDF, 121 Kb) 
•     Strategies for the modification of the urban climate and the consequent impact on building energy use (PDF, 440 Kb) 
•     Effects of climate change on the built environment? (PDF, 151 Kb) 
•     Designing urban spaces and buildings to improve sustainability and quality of life in a warmer world (PDF, 152 Kb) 
•     Infrastructure challenges for the built environment (PDF, 138 Kb) 

• The Regulatory Context
•     Introduction to the regulatory context (PDF, 59 Kb) 
•     Mapping out the regulatory environment and its interaction with land and property markets (PDF, 126 Kb) 
•     A low carbon future: Spatial Planning’s role in enhancing technological innovation in the built environment (PDF, 184 Kb) 
•     The impact of EU policies on energy use in and the evolution of the UK built environment (PDF, 123 Kb) 
•     Security of supply and regulation of energy networks (PDF, 146 Kb) 

• The Economy and Business
•     Introduction to the economy and business (PDF, 59 Kb) 
•     How to support growth with less energy (PDF, 370 Kb) 
•     Energy and economic growth: Grounding our understanding in physical reality (PDF, 199 Kb) 
•     The role of built environment energy efficiency in a sustainable UK energy economy (PDF, 145 Kb) 
•     The case for a new energy research, development and promotion policy for the UK (PDF, 365 Kb) 
•     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? (PDF, 108 Kb) 
•     Understanding business decision making on the environment (PDF, 111 Kb) 

• Living in the Built Environment
•     Introduction to living in the built environment (PDF, 61 Kb) 
•     What are the energy and power consumption patterns of different types of built environment? (PDF, 658 Kb) 
•     Demographics, energy and our homes (PDF, 129 Kb) 
•     Risk, resilience, and environmentally sustainable cities (PDF, 182 Kb) 
•     The energy and monetary implications of the ‘24/7’ ‘always on’ society (PDF, 287 Kb) 
•     What are the factors that could influence the future of work with regard to energy systems and the built environment? (PDF, 257 Kb) 
•     Density and the built environment (PDF, 132 Kb) 
•     Science review of internal combustion engines (PDF, 224 Kb) 

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