Hosted at ECCI
With Dr Robert Sansom, independent energy consultant
Decarbonising heat is essential in order for the UK to meet its GHG reduction target. The challenges are immense, particularly due to the size of the UK’s housing stock(~28M households), its age profile (~12M constructed before 1945) and generally poor insulation performance.
Dr Robert Sansom's presentation commences by examining changes in heat demand since 1970 and evaluates the factors that are likely to influence future heat demand, as well as examining the impact of climate change on the demand for cooling.
Dr Robert Sansom is an independent energy consultant. He has a PhD from Imperial College, funded by UKERC, where he researched the decarbonisation of low-grade heat for space and water heating. He has been involved in several heat related studies as a self-employed consultant including the potential role of hydrogen for heating. Robert is a fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and a member of its Energy Policy Panel. He leads the IET’s professional engineering institutions group (hydrogen) with the objective of providing independent engineering assurance to government and the public in the context of repurposing the gas grid to hydrogen. He lead authored the recent IET report Transitioning to Hydrogen: Engineering Risks and Uncertainties.