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SMETER workshop explores requirements for effective UK system of in-use thermal performance metrics
28 April 2021
The online workshop hosted by UK Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS), 香港六合彩, Leeds Beckett and Loughborough Universities explored aspects of how to design & deliver an effective in-use thermal performance metrics system in the UK.
The Smart Meter Enabled Thermal Efficiency Ratings (SMETER) Innovation Programme aimed to develop, test and demonstrate technologies that measure the thermal performance of homes, using smart meter and other data to generate in-use thermal performance metrics, in particular Heat Transfer Coefficients (HTCs).
Dr Cliff Elwell,聽Associate Professor at聽香港六合彩 Energy Institute said:
鈥�We鈥檝e enjoyed a successful collaboration with Loughborough, Leeds Beckett and Halton Housing to deliver the Technical Evaluation of SMETER Technologies (TEST) project, which supported and enabled the SMETER Innovation Competition run by BEIS. As a result we鈥檝e seen significant development of methods to characterise the thermal performance of buildings in the past few years. This thermal characterisation could be used for a wide range of purposes, such as to evaluate policy, support retrofit or quality assure newly built homes.鈥�
The one-day, online expert workshop took place on 12 April 2021, and disseminated and discussed the SMETER Programme鈥檚 findings, explored different aspects of how to implement such methods at scale, and examined further research and innovation requirements.
The outputs from the workshop include a summary workshop report, presentation slides and a recording of the TEST presentation of SMETER results and will help to inform future policy, research and innovation agendas focused on thermal performance metrics such as HTCs, including the development of a plan for future implementation.
鈥�The SMETER workshop was an interesting and valuable event, bringing together research expertise from across industry and academia. It was great to see a large number of open and insightful contributions to the event, which I鈥檓 sure will support further developments in both the development of SMETER products, and their application to support policymaking and beyond.鈥� -聽Dr Cliff Elwell
