The most intensively researched aspect so far has been users' motivations in decisions for geothermal heat installation on the household level (Kölbel et al. 2008; Caird and Roy 2011; Hee et al. 2013).
The Department for Energy and Climate Change (Decc) hopes the scheme could help drive 380,000 renewable heating installations by 2020 - around 1.5% of the UK's 26m homes.
Burning natural gas in individual heating installations was the preferred heating option.
Moreover, municipalities deploy different policy actions, such as constructing apartment block-heating installations, integration of decentralised CHP units in urban development planning and establishing contracts with private home owners for the provision of heat.
Different policy actions are mentioned such as constructing apartment block-heating installations, integration of decentralised CHP units in urban development planning and establishing contracts with private home owners for the provision of heat.
The study concludes that while there is a real potential for life cycle energy savings through domestic solar water heating installations, devising mechanisms to ensure proper design, installation and operation of systems is essential for this technology.
However, solar cooling installations present several peculiarities with respect to the more known DHW or even heating installations, which require to incorporate a more detailed approach and additional considerations in the design and performance evaluation processes.
The paper presents the results of the research performed by the authors on control systems and optimization for the operating process of the heating installations from the blast furnace at a steel plant.
Generally, this choice should aim at using biogas or green gas as efficiently as possible, taking into consideration aspects, such as the regional situation, the efficiency of CHP vs. green gas in household heating installations and the potential for short-term storage of heat.
For example, the number of organisations involved in relation to keeping warm were vast, for example, energy companies, advice and grant awarding bodies, heating installations companies and contractors.
