Organisation name:
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester / Contact details:

01612754332
Project name:
Accelerating carbon emissions reduction from Greater Manchester’s energy system
Theme: Delete as appropriate
  • Smart Grid
  • Energy
  • Transport

Proposal:
The project aims to develop spatial information of the Greater Manchester’s (GM) low carbon energy system and feeds into the existing MappingGM spatial information. The project will quantify the following based on ETI’s GM spatial energy plan scenarios:
  1. Current and future land based renewable energy generation
  2. Solar PV generation from buildings
  3. Electric vehicle charging from domestic properties
  4. Electricity demand from Heat pumps (HPs) indomestic buildings.
The mapping data will be used to generate supply scenarios for the low carbon technologies (PVs, EVs, HPs, etc) and assess its impact on the low voltage network. The project will identify the network constraints and assess the utilization of smart grid technologies such as energy storage and demand side management technologies to reduce the network constraints. Finally the carbon emissions saving from the scenarios are estimated. The spatial information allows efficient planning for the developmentof low carbon energy projectsfor an accelerated reduction of carbon emissions. Additionally this will allow the local DNO, Electricity Northwest to plan and manage their LV network efficiently.
Building on the weather data from University of Manchester’s (UoM) meteorological observatories and forecast weather model, the project will develop real time and forecast electricity generation profiles for GM for the installed capacity of low carbon technologies which can be updated on a regular basis. The generation profiles along with EV charging and HP demand profiles could be beneficial for Electricity Northwest in operatingthe distribution network.
Finally a web page with visualization tools on real time electricity generation and carbon emissions saving for Greater Manchester will be made available.
Partners required:
This will be a multidisciplinary collaborative project between different schools from University of Manchester (School of MACE, School of Computer science, School of SEES), Electricity Northwest, GM Low Carbon Hub and GMCA.
Outputs that will be supported:
Number of enterprises receiving support
Number of new enterprises supported
No’ enterprises cooperating with research institutions
No ‘enterprises supported to introduce new to the forum products
Decrease in annual primary energy consumption in public buildings
Estimated annual reduction of GHG / Tick where appropriate:
YES
Yes
Yes