The UK Research Council’s Energy
Programme has announ-ced funding of £5.25m for a study of energy-efficient
heating and cooling technologies.
The research will be carried out
by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Storage, Transformation and Upgrading of
Thermal Energy, which will be known as i-STUTE.
The University of Warwick will
play a leading role in the project, working alongside London South Bank,
Loughborough and Ulster universities.
i-STUTE director Professor Bob
Critoph told H&V News the intention is to outline a strategy that will be
easily understandable for consumers that will also “allow suppliers to make
money”.
He stated that i-STUTE was
already speaking to companies such as Dimplex, Emerson and all the major boiler
manufacturers.
“We want to identify something
that’s universally acceptable,” said Prof Critoph, explaining that the four
partners had already carried out work in a number of complementary areas.
“In many ways this follows on
from the work we did within CALEBRE [Consumer-Appealing Low Energy technologies
for Building Retrofitting],” Prof Critoph said, adding that this would allow
the project to “hit the ground running”.
He also revealed that there would
be a focus on studying air-to-water and gas-absorption heat pumps.
The four partners are due to sign
legal documents to confirm their involvement by 1 June.
The project will run for five
years and be able to diverge its studies if necessary.
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