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Sumedha Basu, an interdisciplinary energy sustainability researcher for the Visions of Urban Heat Systems Project will be travelling to COP27 as part of the University's delegation. To read about Sumedha's role at COP27 please follow the link to the Priestley Centre's: Leeds at COP27 news pages.
Dr David Barns, Research Assistant for the Visions of Urban Heat Systems project discusses the alternatives to gas heating and how these might work for dense urban areas. Read the article in full.
Sumedha Basu, an interdisciplinary energy sustainability researcher, has joined the Visions of Urban Heat Systems project as a Post-doctural Research Associate. Sumedha recently completed her PhD from the Politics and International Studies Department of University of Warwick. Her research interests lie at the intersection of multilevel governance of energy transitions and energy politics, particularly linked...
A research team led by Dr Catherine Bale has been awarded funding for a new policy engagement project on facilitating shared ground heat exchange networks. These types of system (which comprise heat pumps using ground-sourced or geothermal heat, and a low-temperature heat network that serves more than one household) are largely overlooked in the UK’s...
Dr Bale spoke at the Scottish Parliament’s online Festival of Politics 2021, held in association with the parliament’s think-tank Scotland’s Futures Forum, from Wednesday 20th October to Sunday 24th October 2021. She contributed to a panel on What will power my home in 2045? in partnership with the School of Social and Political Science, University...
New paper published in the Journal of Energy Storage, titled Important social and technical factors shaping the prospects for thermal energy storage. This work was led by PhD student David Barns and uses empirical evidence from a desk-based survey on thermal energy storage in the UK to explore the status and role of thermal storage in the...
Dr Frin Bale has joined the editorial board of the journal PLOS Sustainability and Transformation. She is section editor for the Economic sustainability, Environmental sustainability, and Sustainable technology sections.
Dr Bale spoke at the ADE’s Heat Networks conference on the topic of the acceptability of heat networks. You can watch her contribution here:
Dr Frin Bale has begun her EPSRC Early Career Fellowship entitled 'Co-creating visions and pathways for integrated urban heat systems' EP/R024197/1 with Post-doc and PGR opportunities to be announced in autumn 2020.