Prospects for and barriers to domestic micro-generation: A United Kingdom perspective

Allen, Stephen; Hammond, Geoffrey P.; McManus, Marcelle

doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2007.09.006

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“…To ensure a sufficient penetration amongst its citizens, the government has introduced a number of policies. The impact of these policies has been discussed in a number of research papers [14]- [16]. To date, there are about 67 different energy policies which arise both from the European Union (EU) directive and from the country's national initiatives [17].…”

Section: National Regulations Policies and Programmesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…by promoting and implementing higher energy efficiency measures, such as insulation, heating, lighting and appliances [14], [15], [21]. The EEC supported two UK Government programmes: (i) the Climate Change Programme -by reducing the greenhouse gas emissions, and (ii) the Fuel Poverty Strategy -by ensuring that 50% of the target must be met in relation to certain low-income consumers [22].…”

Section: Energy Efficiency Commitment (2002)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Section 82 provides that the Secretary of the State must prepare a strategy for the promotion of microgeneration within 18 months after the commencement of the Act. Microgeneration is defined as 'the small scale production of heat and/or electricity from a low carbon source' [14], [24], including the STS . The Act emphasises that the strategy for microgeneration must be capable of cutting greenhouse gas emissions, reducing the number of people living in fuel poverty and enhancing the availability of electricity and heat for consumers in the UK [23].…”

Section: Energy Act (2004)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Besides the environmental benefits, consumers also have the financial gain of saving on energy costs or selling to the power company. However, despite the potential benefits, there are still substantial barriers to the large-scale use of micro-generation [4].…”

Section: Energy Conservationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Service-Oriented Architecture for Household Energy Management

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Warnier²,

Shishkov³

2010

Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Enterprise Systems and Technology

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Abstract. Recent advances in pervasive computing foster automated systems to support household energy management. Smart devices can be used to monitor both the consumption of household appliances and the presence and activity of people in the household. Based on monitoring results, intelligent feedback to residents and intelligent control of appliances is possible. In this paper we present a service-oriented architecture for household energy management in order to cope with interoperability and flexibility issues that exist in the home environment. We also propose a home service bus that realizes core properties of the service-oriented architecture, and thus facilitates integration of existing solutions and development of new applications.

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“…In addition, social and regulatory issues have been explored in [6,7]. The economy of microgeneration, in the context of overall supply of electricity to a grid system, has also been considered in [8], taking in to account the effectiveness of a range of incentives.…”

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A computational tool for evaluating the economics of solar and wind microgeneration of electricity

Kelleher

Ringwood

2009

Energy

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a b s t r a c tThis paper presents a method, implemented as a freely available computer programme, which is used to estimate the economics of renewable microgeneration of electricity from wind and solar energy sources. A variety of commercial small wind turbines and photovoltaic (PV) panels are considered and combined with raw energy data gathered from a variety of locations. Both residential and holiday home user profiles are available and options are selectable concerning feed-in tariffs (if available), government incentive schemes and the cost of capital borrowing. The configuration of the generation setup, which can consist of wind, PV and combination of wind/PV, is fully selectable by the user, with a range of appropriate default data provided. A numerical example, based on Irish data, is presented, which suggests that payback periods for solar and wind microgeneration systems can vary greatly (2.5-500 years), depending on the location, installation and economic variables.

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Prospects for and barriers to domestic micro-generation: A United Kingdom perspective

Cited by 162 publications

References 14 publications

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A computational tool for evaluating the economics of solar and wind microgeneration of electricity

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