A techno-economic policy analysis of microgeneration technologies in the Irish residential sector

School of Civil and Building Services Engineering, Dublin Institute of Technology

Deadline:
31 March 2011
(application date has expired)
€35,000 per annum
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Contact:
Aidan Duffy

The main objectives of this work are to identify which domestic-scale, retrofit microgeneration technologies are most economically viable in the Irish housing stock and should be favoured by policy makers in the medium to long term (10-30) years. The project will address the following questions:

• what existing microgeneration technologies will become economically attractive to individual investors over the period and what subsidies are required to make them viable?
• what are the household characteristics which favour microgeneration uptake?
• what would be the associated cost to the exchequer for each technology, does this represent value for money and which technologies should be most favoured?
• which policies would facilitate the uptake of the most favoured technologies?

The methodological approach will involve: modelling the investment viability of technologies at an individual building level using transient net energy balance models which combine demand and microgeneration supply data; and aggregating the above economic and non-economic data to establish technology deployment potential, cost to the exchequer and cost of carbon abated under a number of different future policy scenarios.

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A techno-economic policy analysis of microgeneration technologies in the Irish residential sector

School of Civil and Building Services Engineering, Dublin Institute of Technology