Research

Lead: Peter Taylor and Sheridan Few

This work package will maximise impact by engaging with a diverse range of stakeholders, using various participatory processes to model and analyse the evolution of future networks and support decision making. The focus will be on what action needs to be taken now in the face of uncertainty about a range of technical, economic and social factors, including how best to support the most vulnerable members of society.

Lead: Furong Li and Chenghong Gu

This WP will design a holistic commercial framework for promoting cross-vector network services and recovering network costs. A whole-system framework will be developed to extend traditional services based on costs and quantities and encompass provider responsiveness.

Lead: Robin Preece

This WP will quantify risk and resilience in future energy
networks using innovative metrics, will exploit these to quantify the risks associated with different system shocks, develop services to minimise risks and better inform decision making under uncertainty.

Lead: Jianzhong Wu and Muditha Abeysekera

To develop roadmaps of energy network solutions up to 2028, 2035 and 2050, to drive and accelerate a just whole-system transition to Net Zero, combining cross-sectoral situational awareness, investment, planning and operation of integrated energy networks. Our aim
is to provide evidence-based recommendations for coordinated actions and decisions at all levels of
energy networks, as well as the necessary technologies for a just and expedited transition

Lead: Furong Li and Chenghong Gu

To fast track the integration and utilisation of large-scale renewable and low-carbon energy conversion and its use by energy-intensive sectors through holistic network investment and coordinated zero-carbon system operation. Achieving this mission will require
network solutions to support and drive forward the timely integration of large-scale offshore renewable and nuclear energy installations alongside continued low-carbon energy provision for energy intensive use

Lead: Martin Freer

To transform regional and local energy networks into active drivers of the Net Zero transition which integrate local energy sources and users, facilitate rapid behavioural and technological changes, and empower active energy communities. This Mission will explore the transformation of the networks that integrate multiple energy sources, meet rapid changes in energy use, and balance the energy system across vectors in real-time.

Lead: Alessandra Parisio

In this WP we will demonstrate the transformational potential of digitalisation to help create a highly interconnected and flexible multi-energy network.
A close collaboration with industrial partners is envisaged to make sure that practical and commercial
aspects related to the deployment of digital solutions are adequately considered