Heat Energy

Etc Venues: Maple House, Birmingham

20 October 2015
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Overview

Earlier this year The Institution released the Heat Energy Report and the seminar creates a live opportunity to discuss and interact with industry experts and leaders. The level of demand in the UK for heat is far greater than that for power. Indeed total heat consumption at point of use is close to the combined energy use in both electricity and transport applications. When the scale and nature of this demand, as well as the characteristics of the nation’s current heat delivery infrastructure, are understood, it becomes readily apparent that making the UK’s heat system energy-secure, low carbon, affordable and fit for purpose for the 21st century is likely to be the biggest energy challenge facing the country’s Government to date.

You can find the full report here.

Day 1

08:30 - TUESDAY 20 OCTOBER 2015

08:30 COFFEE AND REGISTRATION

09:00 CHAIR’S OPENING REMARKS
Rupert Blackstone, Managing Director, Wattcraft and Chair of the Environment
and Sustainability Group, Institution of Mechanical Engineers

SETTING THE SCENE: TARGETS AND SHORTFALLS

09:10 HEAT ENERGY: THE NATION’S FORGOTTEN CRISIS
Ian Arbon, Independent Consultant, Engineered Solutions and former Chair of the
Energy, Environment and Sustainability Group, Institution of Mechanical Engineers

• Understanding the scale of the problem and how industry can address it
• Insight into the current incentives to encourage action
• Developing sustainable energy networks for the national infrastructure

09:30 KEYNOTE: HEAT NETWORKS DELIVERY UNIT: LEARNING AND LATEST THINKING
Charlotte Large, Principal Engineer Heat Networks Delivery Unit,
Department of Energy & Climate Change

• Delivering an award winning heat network
• Supporting local authorities to investigate and develop a heat network
• Understanding typical project criteria

10:00 FUTURE-PROOF AND COST-EFFECTIVE ENERGY SYSTEMS
Grant Bourhill, Project Director, Energy Technologies Institute

• Hear the current state of the market and where improvement areas have been identified
• Understanding potential transition pathways
• Linking national objectives to local delivery

10:30 QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION

10:45 REFRESHMENT BREAK
Chair Ian Arbon, Independent Consultant, Engineered Solutions and former Chair of the
Energy, Environment and Sustainability Group, Institution of Mechanical Engineers

DISTRICT HEATING

11:15 THE ROLE OF DISTRICT HEATING IN DELIVERING A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
Paul Woods, Concessions Director, Cofely Energy Services

• Understand the true benefits of District Heating
• Explore the potential for District Heating within the UK
• Gain insight into current case studies including Birmingham, Coventry and The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

11.45 THE FUTURE OF DISTRICT HEATING IN THE UK
Crispin Matson, Director, Ramboll Energy UK

• Review of progress made in the UK to decarbonise district heating supply sources
• An outline of recent Ramboll experience connecting heat pumps, extracting heating from an underground system, to a district heating system

12:15 QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION

12:30 LUNCH

EXPLORING HEAT SOURCES AND TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS

13:30 DISTRICT ENERGY, THE CINDERELLA OF THE ENERGY WORLD: IS NOW THE TIME TO COME TO THE BALL?
Simon Woodward, Chairman, The UK District Energy Association

• What is district energy
• The level of developments to date
• What is happening now and is expected to happen to deliver signifi cant growth in the UK market

14:00 STRATEGIES FOR DEPLOYING HEAT
Gavin Poyntz, Senior Energy Consultant, Arup

• Perpetuating the existing
• Change on a grand scale
• Transition options

14:30 QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION

14:45 REFRESHMENT BREAK

CHANGING BEHAVIOURS AND DEMAND REDUCTION

15:15 HISTORICAL DAILY AND SUB-HOURLY ENERGY DATA: FOCUS ON HEAT AND ELECTRICITY
Grant Wilson, Research Associate, The University of Sheffield

• An overview of the Great British energy demand
• Addressing current attitudes and behaviours toward energy consumption
• What can we learn from existing marketing patterns and what does this mean for the future?

15:45 DISTRICT HEAT – THE BASE OF A SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY
Frank Mills, Technical Director, Low Carbon Design Consultants

• Understanding how the transition can be achieved
• Exploring the potential financial and carbon benefits
• Achieving sustainable communities

16:15 QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION

16:30 CHAIR’S CLOSING REMARKS

16:40 END OF SEMINAR

CHARLOTTE LARGE: PRINCIPAL ENGINEER HEAT NETWORKS DELIVERY UNIT, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE (DECC)

Charlotte Large is a Mechanical Engineer with a range of expertise in sustainable development research and delivery projects, specialising in energy and water efficiency. Charlotte has worked in local and central government, as well as the private sector where she started her career for a multi-disciplinary Engineering Consultancy in 2003. In 2010 she joined Islington Council and successfully project managed the delivery of Islington Council’s award winning heat network, Bunhill Heat and Power, and developed Islington’s Decentralised Energy Programme and pipeline of projects. Charlotte currently works in the HNDU at DECC delivering support to local authorities investigating and developing heat network opportunities, and providing support to DECCs Heat and Smart Energy policy teams.

IAN ARBON: INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT, ENGINEERED SOLUTIONS AND FORMER CHAIR OF THE ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY GROUP, INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS

Ian Arbon is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer, a Registered European Engineer and a Chartered Environmentalist with an MSc in ‘Renewable Energy and the Environment’ and an MBA. Ian is also a Visiting Professor in Alternative Energy at Newcastle University and Honorary Professor in Sustainable Energy at the University of Glasgow where he teaches on renewable energy at MSc level.

RUPERT BLACKSTONE: MANAGING DIRECTOR, WATTCRAFT AND CHAIR OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY GROUP, INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY GROUP

Rupert Blackstone is a Renewable Energy Engineer with over 16 years’ experience in the sector. He is Managing Director of Wattcraft, a specialist renewable energy engineering consultancy. Prior to setting up Wattcraft he worked for 10 years as a Renewable Energy Engineer at Arup, working on a wide range of sustainable energy projects at different scales and before that for 3 years at Wessex Water where he worked on the engineering of sustainable energy systems as well as water and waste water treatment systems. He is Chair of the Energy, Environment and Sustainability Group Committee (EESG) at the IMechE.

GRANT BOURHILL: PROJECT DIRECTOR, ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE

Grant Bourhill joined the Energy Technologies Institute in 2008 as Director of Programme Delivery and in 2013 took responsibility for the ETI’s Smart Systems and Heat programme, operating out of the ETI’s Birmingham office. Prior to joining ETI, he worked for Sharp for 8 years and was responsible for new technology development and commercial introduction. He holds an MBA from Oxford and a PhD in Physical Chemistry from Strathclyde.

PAUL WOODS: CONCESSIONS DIRECTOR, COFELY ENERGY SERVICES

Paul Woods is Concessions Director at Cofely Energy Services. He is responsible for the strategic development of Cofely’s District Energy Networks at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, the ExCel London Exhibition Centre and in the cities of Southampton, Birmingham, Leicester and Coventry. He is a Fellow of the Institution and well known as an expert in Heat Networks having recently produced the new Code of Practice for Heat Networks for CIBSE and the ADE. He has also carried out research into the potential and costs of District Heating for Defra, DECC and the ETI.

CRISPIN MATSON: DIRECTOR, RAMBOLL ENERGY UK

Crispin Matson studied engineering at the University of Surrey. He joined Oscar Faber as a Mechanical Engineer in 1983.Four years at the international consulting engineer, Arup followed, before joining Rybka Battle in 1993. He then spent 16 years developing Rybka into a successful low energy consulting engineer before selling the 30 strong company to Ramboll in 2009. Crispin is now the UK Director of Ramboll Energy and has a dual role: coordinating the activities of the Offshore Wind, Power and Energy from Waste teams and leading the UK’s District Energy discipline. He has always had a deep interest in renewable energy and in addition to his role at Ramboll he is a director of Westmill Wind Farm, the UK’s largest Wind Farm Cooperative.

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