EPSRC: Decarbonising heating and cooling

18/06/2020

23/07/2020

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council invites letters of intent for its call on decarbonising heating and cooling. The total budget is worth approximately £12 million at 80 per cent full economic costs. Grants are worth between £500,000 and £1.5m between 36 and 48 months.

This supports proposals to address decarbonising heating, decarbonising cooling or decarbonising both heating and cooling. Examples to do this include: •new technologies of heating or cooling; •significant developments of existing technologies in terms of cost or efficiency; •reduction of demand for heating or cooling; •new methods or significant developments for heat storage or cold storage; •whole system or multi-vector heating or cooling solutions; •modelling of heating and/or cooling solutions and interactions with the energy network; •retrofit options; •technology choice; •research on hydrogen use for heating or cooling; •smart heat system optimisation.

The principal investigator must be resident in the UK and an academic employee at the lecturer or equivalent level at an eligible organisation, which may be a HEI, a research institute funded by a research council or an independent research organisation.