by Vance Tan | Nov 16, 2016 | Energy
Abstract The Green Deal was a British flagship policy intended to deliver energy efficiency retrofits at scale. About 2.5 years after its launch the programme was effectively terminated and is now seen as a dramatic policy failure. In this paper we analyse the reasons...
by Vance Tan | Nov 14, 2016 | Infrastructure systems
Abstract We quantify the current water use of China’s thermoelectric power sector with plant-level data. We also quantify the future implications for cooling water use of different energy supply scenarios at both a regional and national levels. Within China, water...
by Vance Tan | Oct 21, 2016 | Energy
Abstract Extreme space weather due to Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) has the potential to cause considerable disruption to the global economy by destroying the Extra High Voltage (EHV) transformers required to operate electricity transmission infrastructure. This could...
by Vance Tan | Oct 16, 2016 | Collaborations
The National Needs Assessment (NNA) was an Institution of Civil Engineers initiative to examine the UK’s likely infrastructure needs in the coming decades – set against uncertainties such as climate change, population growth, global energy prices and economic...
by Vance Tan | Sep 30, 2016 | Water supply
Abstract The energy supply systems model was developed for the UK Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium (ITRC) and is used on the CGEN+ optimisation model for energy infrastructure expansion planning. Authors Byers, E.A., Qadrdan, M., Leathard, A., Alderson,...
