贝搏体育 has just completed a key part of a £4m project funded by the Department for Business, 能源 and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) called the Smart Meter Enabled 的rmal Efficiency Ratings (SMETER) Innovation Programme.
£1.1 m方案, carried out in partnership with Halton Housing, 利兹贝克特大学和伦敦大学学院, tested and developed eight different meters that measure thermal performance in 30 homes – two-storey houses and single-storey bungalows built between around 1927 and 1990.
Smart meters were installed in every home to measure gas and electricity demand, and temperature and relative humidity sensors were installed in five to eight rooms of each home.
研究ers found that the concept of using smart meter data to measure thermal performance is effective. smm可以发挥作用, not only in the energy rating of homes, but also in quantifying the improvement to energy efficiency following refurbishment and identifying under-performance of new homes.
Loughborough led the evaluation phase which was aimed as measuring the Heat Transfer coefficient (HTC) in a blind trial against HTC as measured using a gold standard physical method (co-heating test).
的 SMETER innovation competition technical evaluation report 已经出版了, including details of the individual performance of the different SMETER products which took part in the trial.
Dr 大卫所有inson, of the Building 能源 研究 Group (BERG) in Loughborough’s School of Architecture, 建筑及土木工程, said: “的 SMETER Programme has demonstrated that we can measure the performance of our homes in a relatively inexpensive and non-intrusive way using smart meter data.
“National implementation of in-use performance metrics for buildings would be a world-first and could help ensure that we all live in better performing homes that really do save energy, 加热更便宜, and do reduce our harmful carbon emissions.
“It is exciting to be working with fantastic collaborators at the forefront of research and innovation in this important area.”
随着这项工作的成功, BEIS has commissioned AECOM and 贝搏体育 to support a new SMETER Business Process Design project, 第一阶段正在进行中.
的 goal of this project is to develop analysis which enables BEIS and DLUHC to reach conclusions on the feasibility, 方法, and business case for developing arrangements for the national implementation of in-use performance metrics in support of Net Zero housing and heating.
Lee Reevell，创新主管 & Halton Housing的建筑, said “Social landlords have big targets to hit, with a minimum EPC requirement of C by 2035 and Netzero by 2050.
“总共有4个.1 million social homes in the UK we understand the importance to the sector of developing new 方法es to measuring the heat transfer coefficient (HTC) of our homes.
“的 SMETER innovation programme has allowed us to understand how our buildings are performing, which measures we can take to improve their performance to meet new legislative requirement, as well as addressing fuel poverty in low-income households.”
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