Decarbonisation of heat is a critical element of the transition to net zero, particularly where there are substantial space heating needs such as the UK.
Electrification of heat can deliver decarbonisation but with significant challenges particularly in terms of the upfront and running costs of systems and the impact of these new demands on the electricity system infrastructure
To overcome these challenges, Pragmatic Energy has developed a cloud-based platform to enable heat technologies, such as heat pumps, to be selected and operated optimally to minimise costs and network impact without compromising customer comfort.
Pragmatic Energy’s solution uses cloud-to-cloud communications and/or in-home gateways to collect data appropriate to the type and specification of installed low carbon heating system. This data is collected from heating systems, sensors, metering, smart controls and external sources (e.g. weather forecasting services)…
…our models use collected data to discern and forecast energy demand patterns (domestic hot water, space heating and cooling) and energy system performance in meeting these patterns. Energy system settings are then enhanced, and time-of-use controls optimised, in order to reduce energy consumption and costs.
This information can then be used to augment existing processes (e.g. Energy Performance Certificates) to suggest retrofit policies and system upgrades that provide more optimal and affordable decarbonisation pathways. Pragmatic Energy’s platform allows stakeholders to target interventions to improve energy efficiency, safeguard comfort, tackle energy poverty and support network operator planning.
Heat Pump Solution
Pragmatic Energy offers a 3 tiered solution through project lifecycle
Tier 1: Monitor and Report
Collect
Alert
Performance & Costs Occupant Comfort & Behaviours
Monitor
Characterises demand patterns & building response
Report
Performance & Costs Occupant Comfort & Behaviours
Forecast
Asset Performance
Prices & Savings
DSR Income
Enhance
Improve efficiency
Ensure occupants are comfortable & in control
Optimise
Manage Grid Constraint
Tier 2: Enhance and Optimise
Tier 3: Integrated Energy Solutions
Simulate
system specifications
Cost-Benefit Modelling for business models
Specify
Education for Occupants & Installers
Meet the Leadership Team
Pragmatic Energy was formed by 2 leading consultancies from the energy industry, CBE (Clear Blue Energy) and TCL (Trilemma Consulting Limited) along with Dr Andrew Peacock, Heriot Watt University Associate Professor, School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society, Institute for Sustainable Building Design.
Adrian Richardson
Clear Blue Energy
Adrian has over 25 years of experience in the energy industry in a wide variety of roles from strategy and business development, corporate venture creation to energy system product development and commercialisation. In this latter field, Adrian has been a key member of teams introducing step change innovations into the energy market. Adrian founded Clear Blue Energy in 2016 through a Management Buyout of the microgeneration and low carbon heat innovation assets of Centrica plc, where he and his team have focussed on the commercialisation of smart, flexible and low carbon distributed heat and power and energy storage solutions for homes and small businesses.
Dr David Kane
Trilemma Consulting Ltd
David is a Chartered Engineer, with 20 years of experience in energy. His core expertise relates to the development, implementation and assessment of low-or-zero carbon energy technologies for power generation, smart heating, thermal & electrical storage, DSR, VPP & energy IoT systems. He has led technical R&D teams for energy companies, global OEMs, and start-ups, securing patents & launching products. With a PhD in control system optimisation for energy generation & storage using building physics, David has focussed on the integration of asset control systems with optimisation & forecasting underpinned by machine learning techniques.
Dr Andrew Peacock
Associate Professor, Heriot Watt University
Andrew is an Associate Professor at Heriot Watt University with a 20-year track record of research in the field of energy system analysis & control development and is author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications. Working with multi-disciplinary teams he has delivered internationally renowned output focusing on a wide array of topics that includes user centered design of energy management systems, development of housing stock modelling approaches for assessing energy efficiency policy and development of novel control algorithms and business models for community owned, distributed storage assets.
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