by Vance Tan | Feb 7, 2019 | Energy
Abstract Localisation of energy technologies and policies is increasing the need for high-resolution spatial and temporal energy demand simulation modelling, which goes beyond annual and national scale. Increasing the temporal resolution is crucial for demand side...
by Vance Tan | Nov 23, 2018 | Energy
AbstractStrategic planning for the low carbon energy transition is characterised by a high degree of uncertainty across many knowledge domains and by the high stakes involved in making decisions. Energy models can be used to assist decision makers in making robust...
by Vance Tan | Nov 7, 2018 | Energy, Urban water
Abstract Urban water management represents a core economic sector exposed to global water-related challenges. Recently, small modular system configurations have been identified to enable a potential sustainability transition in this lasting and rather conservative...
by Vance Tan | Aug 7, 2018 | Energy
Abstract This chapter explores potential ways to implement, and benefits for policymaking of, the complementary use of two different types of modelling for analysing residential energy consumption and ethnographic research. The more traditional approach of...
by Vance Tan | Jan 17, 2017 | Energy, Infrastructure systems
Abstract Extreme space weather due to coronal mass ejections has the potential to cause considerable disruption to the global economy by damaging the transformers required to operate electricity transmission infrastructure. However, expert opinion is split between the...
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...
