Electrification of buildings for net zero (TM67)

Tony Day (chair), Stephen Bayliss; Richard Brimfield, Julie Godefroy, Jason Horner, Tom Lelyveld, Roger Macklin, Jo Southernwood, Leon Markwell, Daniel Neasham, Luke Osborne, Chris Twinn, Chris Worboys

• Publisher: The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers
• Year: 2021
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• eBook ISBN:
  9781914543142
• Subtopic: Construction & Architectural Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Building decarbonisation is a pressing challenge that requires immediate and urgent action. Many design engineers are responding to this challenge through the application of the best currently available low carbon solutions. Rapid decarbonisation of electricity supply networks and improved technologies for electrically powered heat delivery, energy storage and control, have provided significant opportunities to deliver low carbon buildings.In another development electric vehicles are being charged from building electricity supplies.Moving heat and transport loads onto the grid brings a range of new challenges, including supply security and integrity, cost management (in connection and operation), and flows of data and information. These all require some shifts in the traditional design approach and operational practices. This Technical Memorandum brings an overview of these opportunities and challenges together to provide electrical and mechanical building services engineers with an understanding of the factors at play that will influence their design thinking. It points to appropriate existing guidance while also indicating those areas where new guidance and research are needed or are expected to emerge as practical experience evolves.The challenge ahead is enormous, and this TM will help to support industry in delivering high quality low carbon buildings at a time when we are experiencing a huge energy transition and rapid technology innovation.

Table of contents

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Scale of the challenge: why a step change is needed
• 3 Overarching strategies and performance metrics
• 4 Thinking beyond the building boundary
• 5 Strategies at building level
• 6 Electrical energy storage and generation systems
• 7 Data considerations
• 8 Future guidance and research
• 9 References and sources of further information
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