Sustainable Energy Management and the Built Environment

Foresight is carrying out a project on Sustainable Energy Management and the Built Environment. The project was announced in the Energy Challenge in July 2006, as one of the activities resulting from the Government's Energy Review. In the Energy Challenge report the project is described as follows:

"The project would consider the potential future role and relationship of centralised and decentralised energy generation in delivering the UK's long-term energy goals. In order to do this it would look at scientific, technical and economic issues including: future systems for generating heat and power that are low carbon and distributed; transmission and distribution networks; and demand management. Demand management would range from reducing use of energy in buildings through materials and intelligence, to exploring behavioural, attitudinal and information barriers to changes in behaviour.

The project will report its findings in autumn 2008."

Yvette Cooper MP, Minister of State for Housing and Planning, Department for Communities and Local Government; Ian Pearson MP, Minister of State for Climate Change and the Environment, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and; Malcolm Wicks MP, Minister of State for Energy, Department of Trade and Industry, have agreed to sponsor this project.

The Project's Director is Sir David King, Chief Scientific Adviser for Government and Head of the Office of Science and Innovation.

Current work

We are in the scoping phase of the project.

During this phase we will:

  • develop the key questions that the project will seek to address;
  • consider the futures techniques and timeframes that are appropriate for these questions;
  • identify the areas where we will commission state of science papers;
  • identify other activities - for example modelling - that will further our understanding.

The scoping phase is planned to run until early 2007.

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