It’s been a busy few months for CESI colleagues. We celebrated the end of CESI last month; it was great to see people from across the 6 years of CESI coming together to celebrate the end of the project.

Research Showcase Week: 9th - 13th May

CESI's closing event series has come to and end - and what a week it was! During the week of 9^th May, we ran 8 online sessions occurred follow by 2 in person events including a site visit to InTEGReL and the Hydrogen Homes. Over 100 people attended online and with 55 attendees in Newcastle for our closing ceremony. Thank you to all our delegates, sponsors and speakers who contributed to the week of celebrations.

All online sessions were recording, see them here, and keep your eyes peeled for our blog about the trip to the Hydrogen Homes!

Poster winners

Congratulations to our first place winners: Merlinda Andoni, Valentin Robu, Benoit Couraud, Sonam Norbu and David Flynn for their poster on Multi-stage optimisation of day-ahead local energy community trading based on end-user energy preferences.

Congratulations to our joint second place winners: Claire Copeland, Gordon Mackerron and Tim Foxon for their poster on Findhorn Energy Futures and David Jenkins, Peter McCallum and Vatougiou Paraskevi for their poster on Modelling buildings within energy systems

All posters and talks can be viewed on our online poster board which will remain active long after CESI ends.

CESI Research Showcase Week was a great chance for recent CESI outputs, such as both Flex Fund Four projects, to be shared across the CESI consortium. I have been involved with a number of projects over the last 6 years across a range of disciplines and it was fantastic to reflect on these, as well as hearing about work in other work packages.

Claire Copeland, CESI REsearch Associate from University of Sussex

Claire contributed to several events across the Showcase Week including presenting in 2 of the online sessions, hosting an online session, provcuding a poster (winning seond place) and giving a keynote speach during the closing ceremony.

Recent publications:

Success for Claire Copeland and Gordon Mackerron Work Package 1 researchers: The North of Tyne futures paper has now been published by Local Environment.

Claire Copeland, Gordon MacKerron & Timothy J. Foxon. (2022). Regional energy futures as decision support in the transition to net zero emissions: North of Tyne case study,Local Environment. DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2022.2075841

One of the highlights of working in CESI has been working with stakeholders in the North of Tyne to develop energy futures both before and after the pandemic. This futures study highlights the rapid shifts in behaviours and outlook that can occur in times of shock such as the pandemic. These findings will be of interest to local government decision and policy makers in bringing about the net zero emissions transition.

Claire Copeland, Lead author

Work package 4 publications:

The team from Heriot-Watt and Glasgow have had two recent publications: 

Schwidtal, J. M., Piccini, P., Troncia, M., Chitchyan, R., Montakhabi, M., Francis, C., ... & Kiesling, L. (2022). Emerging business models in local energy markets: A systematic review of Peer-to-Peer, Community Self-Consumption, and Transactive Energy models. Community Self-Consumption, and Transactive Energy models (January 06, 2022).

Capper, T., Gorbatcheva, A., Mustafa, M. A., Bahloul, M., Schwidtal, J. M., Chitchyan, R., ... & Kiesling, L. (2022). Peer-to-peer, community self-consumption, and transactive energy: A systematic literature review of local energy market models. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 162, 112403.

Kirli, D., Couraud, B., Robu, V., Salgado-Bravo, M., Norbu, S., Andoni, M., ... & Kiprakis, A. (2022). Smart contracts in energy systems: A systematic review of fundamental approaches and implementations. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 158, 112013.

Work package 5: 

The 6 month Clean Tyne Project has ended with bang! The project consortium including Newcastle University, Port of Tyne, Siemens, North East Local Enterprise Partnership and Connected Places Catapult created the Digitalised and Decarbonised Port Transition Roadmap. Find out more information here. 

Upcoming events and news:

• CESI representatives will be at the EPSRC Engineering Net Zero Week on 21st - 23rd June. 
• Sara Walker will be charing Session 7: Energy infrastructure needs for achieving net zero on day two (14th June) for the UKERC Research Conference: Putting Net Zero into Action: addressing the implementation gap.  
• Dr. Natalia Zografou-Barredo EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow Engineering at Newcastle University, will be attending the DTU Summer School and presenting her PhD research in a poster presentation. Natalia's research was undertaken as part of CESI. 
• We are planning to run a series of online events, to capture The Legacy of CESI. Please get in touch if you would like to be involved!
• The next speaker for our Optimisation Group Webinars will be confirmed in the next few weeks. Stay tuned. View our previous webinars here. 
• Flex Fund 3 project team, Jim Smith and Chris Dent will be presenting at the 17th International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems, PMAPS 2022. On 14^th June about Propagating Uncertainty In A Network of Energy Models.
• Research colleagues will be producing a series of White Papers next month - see here for more details.