Decarbonisation of buildings, transport and industry is increasing and long-term, the fundamentals are strong.
Decarbonisation of buildings, transport and industry is increasing and long-term, the fundamentals are strong.
However, it remains the case that business cases for decarbonisation and providing flexibility are too difficult, uptake rates are too slow and generation and storage still dominant thinking in the major energy debates of our day: in the role of market signals, centralised planning, connections reform.
Furthermore, the prevailing view of the role demand will play in the energy system remains wedded to its historical, high-carbon, passive role in the system.
A new vision is needed.
Our vision, and what ADE: Demand exists to make happen, is no less than a complete re-imagining of the role of demand in our energy system so that:
Demand is given equal consideration to generation
Every household, commercial business and industrial site has a commercially viable path to decarbonisation It is recognised that energy users and their assets have a day job – they shouldn’t have to work around the energy system, the energy system should work around them
Millions of users with automated energy provision can play a major part in keeping the lights on.
