Work Programme

The consortium faced two broad challenges over two timescales:

• There are engineering problems created by embedding renewable energy sources into a distribution network and
• There is a need to develop a market and regulatory environment that creates the right commercial drivers to encourage sustainable energy generation and use
• These problems need to be solved for the medium term government targets for renewable energy and for the long term trans-national aspirations for sustainable energy use and climate change. In this context, medium term is 2010-2020 and long term is circa 2020-2050.

We defined 9 work-streams to tackle specific but inter-related issues. Each work-stream contains a mixture of engineering, economic and social aspects.