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.
For all student requirements please see
http://www.dit.ie/researchandenterprise/graduateresearchschool/arnoldfgravespostdoctoralprogramme/
Application Deadline:
31 March 2011
Contact:
Aidan Duffy,
aidan.duffy@dit.ie
