Topics - Heat and the City

Research Topics

District Heating

District heating: urban heat infrastructure raises challenging questions of governance, regulation, finance, user protection, planning and coordination.

Energy Efficiency

Understanding barriers and enablers to delivery of energy efficiency in buildings in the domestic and non-domestic sectors.

Governance and organisation

The governance and organisation of energy systems is critical to meeting our climate protection targets, but is often under-examined.

Valuing Energy

How is the value of energy understood by different actors, and what are the implications of these differences for decision making?