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Research Councils’ Energy Programme:
Opportunities for mathematics
Dr Rachel Bishop
Mission
To position the UK to meet its energy and environmental
targets and policy goals through high quality research
and postgraduate training.
Drivers:
Tackling climate change by reducing carbon dioxide
emissions both within the UK and abroad.
Ensuring energy security.
Ensuring energy affordability.
Working towards a low carbon economy
The Energy Landscape:
Public Sector Funding
Co-ordination
Cross Council working over last
three spending review.
STFC
Brings together all our energyrelated activities.
BBSRC
Scientific Advisory Committee
Industry & Academics, TSB,
BERR (now DECC) & DIUS
representation.
Programme Coordination Group.
Links with other priority themes.
NERC
EPSRC has
funding to
work across
all research
council
remits
EPSRC
ESRC
Energy Programme Objectives
To support a full spectrum of
Energy research to help the
UK meet the objectives and
targets set out in the 2007
Energy White Paper
To work in partnership to
contribute to the research and
postgraduate training needs of
energy-related business and
other key stakeholders
To increase the international
visibility and level of
international collaboration within
the UK energy research
Portfolio.
To expand the UK research
capacity in energy-related
areas.
Priorities 2008-11
£319M planned investment by the Research Councils
A whole system approach to energy options, supply and usage.
Rapid exploitation through collaboration with ETI.
Growing portfolio in demand reduction and transport.
Focused postgraduate training in energy themes.
Continue research in sustainable power
generation & supply/alternative sources.
A Full Spectrum of Research
Markets , policy and Public
STFC
Attitudes
UKERC
1%
2%
4%
Marine
Tyndall
2%
2%
Nuclear
6%
Renewable power generation
(Marine, wind Solar Biomass etc)
Wind
2%
Energy efficiency, including
storage
Solar
12%
Bioenergy
6%
Ground source heat and
geothermal
1%
Fusion
18%
Energy Efficiency
11%
Power systems
conventional
5%
Sustainable energy vectors,
including fuel cells.
Conventional power
generation
Nuclear energy and Fusion
Transport
1%
Combustion
2%
Conventional
Generation
2%
Oil and Gas
2%
Sustainable
Networks
6%
Carbon capture and
sequestration
4%
Fuel cells
4%
Hydrogen
4%
Storage
2%
Other energy research, including
enabling activities and capacity
Key Achievements
Research and postgraduate skills in nuclear energy:
helping to ‘keep the nuclear option open’.
SUPERGEN programme - world leading research
including wind and marine energy, photovoltaics, fuel
cells, bioenergy, hydrogen – through large consortia
between UK academics, 80+ industry and other key
stakeholders.
UK Energy Research Centre, (UKERC) - leading whole
systems research and directly informing government
policy.
ETI project development in marine and wind energy.
Strategic partnerships with industry, for example a £10M
collaboration with E.ON.
SUPERGEN
14 Consortia
38 academic partners
80+ business and
other collaborators
£62m in total
With the Carbon Trust
SUPERGEN – The Consortia
MANAGEMENT HUB
FINANCE HUB
AMOUNT
MARINE
Ian Bryden, RGU
Robin Wallace, Edinburgh
£5.5M
NETWORKS
Tim Green, Imperial
Jim McDonald, Strathclyde
£7.0M
HYDROGEN
Pete Edwards, Oxford
Tim Mays, Bath
£6.0M
BIOMASS
Tony Bridgwater, Aston
Jenny Jones, Leeds
£6.4M
PV
Stuart Irvine, Bangor
Ken Durose, Durham
£6.2M
PLANT EXTENSION
Derek Allen, Alstom
Rachel Thomson, L’boro
£4.3M
FUEL CELLS
Nigel Brandon, Imperial
Keith Scott, Newcastle
£2.1M
DIST’D SYSTEMS
Graeme Burt, Strathclyde
David Infield, L’boro
£2.6M
ENERGY STORAGE
Peter Hall, Strathclyde
Saiful Islam, Surrey
£2.2M
ORGANIC PV
Tim Jones, Warwick
Laurie Peter, Bath
£1.1M
WIND
Bill Leithead, Strathclyde
Peter Tavner, Durham
£2.6M
INFRASTRUCTURE
Simon Rowland, Manchester
Steve Swingler,
Southampton
£2.5M
Fraser Armstrong Oxford
£2.0M
Ian Metcalfe
Newcastle
£5.0M
THEME
BIO FUEL CELLS
SUSTAINABLE H2
Bob Slade,
Surrey
John Irvine
St Andrews
Current portfolio = £55.5M, 16% of current grant portfolio
UK Energy Research Centre
Focal point for UK research on sustainable energy.
Independent, whole-systems approach.
Bridge between energy research and business, policymakers and
international energy research community.
Phase II announced: research themes energy supply, energy
demand, energy systems, energy and environment.
Highlights Include:
Input to energy white paper (including modelling input).
Intermittency report.
Energy Research Atlas / Road mapping.
Meeting place including G8 meeting.
Nuclear Energy
Core Activity:
BGS Secure Energy Supply – nuclear repository.
Industrial Doctorate Centre in Nuclear Engineering.
DTC Actinide Chemistry.
Responsive mode £6.2M.
Letter of Arrangement group (AWE, BE, NNL, NDA, HSE):
Keeping the Nuclear Option Open (KNOO) - current and future reactor
systems, materials and waste management.
Sustainability assessment of nuclear power (SPRIng).
Decommissioning, Immobilisation and management of Nuclear wastes for
Disposal (DIAMOND).
Development of a joint vision for research and training.
Carbon Capture & Storage
£15M of CCS current research and capacity
building projects
Planned activities over the next 12 months ( up
to £15M)
– New Industrial Doctoral Training Centre in CCS.
– Joint call with E.ON for consortia proposals in
carbon capture and transport (proposals currently
being assessed).
– Call for cleaner fossil fuels projects in collaboration
with China (proposals currently being assessed).
– Call being planned in carbon storage,
environmental impact and CCS whole systems.
– Plans for a network to take forward the work of
UKCCS
– Call for fellowships - cleaner coal including CCS
highlighted as priority
Energy Demand Reduction:
CARBON VISIONS: with Carbon Trust, NERC and ESRC: £14 million Research.
Carbon Vision Buildings:
carbon use in buildings
policies to reduce the carbon footprint
building market transformation
Carbon Vision Industry:
Life cycle assessment in food industry
Barriers to take up of take-up of Technology
EPSRC / E.ON STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP ~ £6M of £10M focused on:
Pathways to a low carbon economy
Advanced Heat Pumps and Insulation
Carbon Control and Comfort Interfaces to the Mass Market
SUSTAINABLE URBAN ENVIRONMENT:
Carbon footprint of cities
Resolve: with ESRC behaviours and lifestyle £3M
Energy in Transport
Walking and Cycling: Strategic Partnership with
Sustrans:
Measuring and evaluating the travel, physical activity
and carbon impacts of the Connect2 initiative,
– Understanding walking and cycling
– Visions of the role of Walking and Cycling in 2030
– Follow up 2009/10.
Airport Operations: Ideas Factory with DfT November
2008, proposals selected for submission – up to £3M.
Long-Term: Fusion
Major block of funding – over £20M pa.
EPSRC funding for ITER, JET and UK
domestic programme (alongside
EURATOM funding).
Getting the right balance with the
energy portfolio and the changing fusion
research landscape.
Capacity Building
Doctoral Training Centres -£50 Investment:
University of Birmingham: Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and their Application .
University of Leeds: Technologies for a Low Carbon Future.
University of Manchester: Nuclear Fission Research, Science and Technology
Doctoral Training Centre.
University of Nottingham: Efficient Power from Fossil Energies and Carbon
Capture Technologies.
University of Reading: Technologies for Sustainable Built Environments.
University of Sheffield: Sheffield Training in Interdisciplinary Energy Research:
STIER.
University of Strathclyde : Wind Energy Systems.
Industrial Doctorate Centres:
University of Manchester: Nuclear Engineering.
University of Surrey: Sustainability for Engineering and Energy Systems.
University of Southampton: Transport and the Environment.
University College London: Urban Sustainability and Resilience.
Science & Innovation Awards, Chairs, Fellowships
Working In Partnership
Research Consortia building with
Industry – e.g. SUPERGEN.
Strategic Alignment e.g. Nuclear
letter of Arrangement Group.
Direct partnerships / joint activities
e.g Eon, Sustrans, ABB, scottish
power, EDF.
Collaboration with public sector
partners – ETI, TSB, Carbon Trust,
DEFRA, DFID.
Partnering with ETI
First Programmes
Offshore Wind – 3 projects announced, links to
SUPERGEN Wind energy technologies consortia.
Marine (wave and tidal) – ReDAPT project announced
links to SUPERGEN Marine consortia.
Distributed Energy (including buildings) and CCS
being developed.
Working groups on:
– Energy Networks – grids and management.
– Transport (incl. non-hydrocarbon fuels and small
scale energy conversion)
– Waste Heat Recovery and Conversion.
EPSRC representatives on working groups, technical
committee and board.
Future activities this Spending
Review
2009/10
SUPERGEN Renewals
Nuclear Materials (with STFC).
Demand Reduction – Energy Efficiency in Buildings Sandpit, IT in
Demand Reduction Ideas Factory, Energy in Communities.
CCS – Storage and Whole System.
2010/11
International Review.
SUPERGEN III.
Geo-engineering Sandpit.
Transport Challenge (to be scoped).
Generation / supply ‘Challenge (to be scoped).
Emerging Themes for 2011
Onwards
Speculative research:
– To define future energy options.
Accelerated deployment of alternative energy technologies:
– Ensuring physical, economic, social and natural sciences research and basic
research challenges are addressed – working with TSB, ETI and others.
Understanding future energy options:
– Social, environmental and economic implications (working with LWEC).
Reducing energy consumption and demand:
– Development of behavioural, market and technological advances informed by
a whole system understanding.
Building capacity:
– Providing the skilled people to deliver new energy futures through the training
and development of new researchers, policy makers and business leaders.
Challenges:
agent based modelling / complexity - emergent
properties in increasingly complex network systems
improved optimisation strategies for whole system
future energy infrastructure for the UK
risk and uncertainty in energy scenarios
forecasting in energy markets
social / behaviour understanding.
Current mathematics engagement
3 HEIs, 4 grants, 12 researchers, £675k
Opportunities to engage:
UKERC – meeting place, NERN, research fund
SUPERGEN consortia
Ideas factories / Sandpits
Calls for proposals
Underpinning funding mechanisms
Thank you
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