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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Ross Stirling, Dr Anil YildizORCiD
This is the authors' accepted manuscript of an article that has been published in its final definitive form by Institution of Civil Engineers Publishing, 2022.
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Dispersed space heating alone accounts for 40% of UK energy use and 20% of CO2emissions. Tackling heating and building cooling demands is therefore critical to achieve netzero ambitions in the UK. The most energy efficient way to decarbonise heating and cooling isthrough the use of ground source heat pumps and district heating technology. However, capitalcosts are often high, sometimes prohibitively so. To reduce investment costs, it is proposed touse buried infrastructure as sources and stores of thermal energy. Barriers to this innovativeapproach include lack of knowledge about the actual net amount of recoverable energy, andimpacts on the primary function of any buried infrastructure, as well as the need for newinvestment and governance strategies integrated across the energy and infrastructure sectors.Additional opportunities from thermal utilisation in buried infrastructure include the potentialmitigation of damaging biological and/or chemical processes that may occur. This paperpresents a first assessment of the scale of the opportunity for thermal energy recovery andstorage linked to new and existing buried infrastructure, along with strategic measures to helpreduce barriers and start the UK on the journey to achieving of its infrastructure energypotential.
Author(s): Loveridge F, Schellart A, Rees S, Stirling R, Taborda D, Tait S, Alibardi L, Biscontin G, Shepley P, Shafagh I, Shepherd W, Yildiz A, Jefferson B
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Smart Infrastructure and Construction
Year: 2022
Volume: 175
Issue: 1
Pages: 10-26
Online publication date: 14/04/2022
Acceptance date: 08/04/2022
Date deposited: 25/04/2022
ISSN (electronic): 2397-8759
Publisher: Institution of Civil Engineers Publishing
URL: https://doi.org/10.1680/jsmic.21.00018
DOI: 10.1680/jsmic.21.00018
ePrints DOI: 10.57711/ybj6-xe67
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