Re-energising Wales Project. Work Package 1 - Half-hourly energy demand profiles for Wales for 2016. [Updated version]

Knight, Ian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4871-4016, Iorwerth, Heledd and Lannon, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4677-7184 2017. Re-energising Wales Project. Work Package 1 - Half-hourly energy demand profiles for Wales for 2016. [Updated version]. [Project Report]. Cardiff: Institute of Welsh Affairs and Cardiff University.

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Abstract

This report was undertaken as part of work package 1 (WP1) for the Institute of Welsh Affairs’ (IWA) ‘Re-energising Wales’ project (2016 to 2019.) The aims of the project are to provide a fact based plan to enable Wales to meet its projected energy demands entirely from renewable sources by 2035 and beyond. This will then achieve the targeted 80% reduction in energy-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, based on 1990 emission figures. To understand how the Welsh energy supply system should evolve to most effectively and efficiently meet these aims, we first have to understand when, where and why we use the energy currently consumed. The work covered by this report has produced estimates of the energy demand of Welsh domestic and non-domestic buildings in half-hourly intervals for each of the 10,048 Census 2011 Output Areas (OA) in Wales (Office for National Statistics, 2011). A bottom-up approach is used to assess the annual building energy demand for every building in Wales that appeared in the Ordnance Survey data for Wales in April 2017 (Ordnance Survey, 2017). Industrial, transport and non-building commercial energy demands in Wales are not covered by this report, but their annual use can be estimated from BEIS 2015 figures for Wales (Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, 2017), a graphical overview of which is shown in Figure 1. The information in this work package should be of value when assessing the potential for renewable energy to meet these geographically varying demands, which is one focus of work package 2 of the IWA project.

Item Type:	Monograph (Project Report)
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Architecture
Subjects:	T Technology > T Technology (General)
Additional Information:	The data supporting this report is available on the Cardiff University Research Data Repository at https://doi.org/10.17035/cardiff.30705155.
Publisher:	Institute of Welsh Affairs and Cardiff University
Related URLs:	https://doi.org/10.17035/cardiff.3070515...
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	11 January 2018
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2025 16:14
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/120735

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