Earth Notes: General Bibliography (crawley2024flexibility)

• [crawley2024flexibility] Crawley, Jenny and Moore, Gemma and Higginson, Sarah and Elwell, Cliff and Eyre, Nick The Role of Domestic Heat Pumps in Providing Flexibility to the UK Electricity System (accessed 2026-08-16), MDPI AG, 2024-06-18, Energies, volume 17, report/number 12, ISSN 1996-1073, doi:10.3390/en17122995, article/pages 2995 (article) (BibTeX).
  abstract

  Widespread adoption of residential heat pumps is predicted to create challenges for national and local electricity systems. Flexible operation of heat pumps could help smooth peak demand and better utilise renewables. Achieving these benefits involves many stakeholders from the heat pump and electricity sectors with different perspectives and expectations. This work brought together 52 experts from different parts of the UK system to discuss and debate the role of heat pump flexibility in a decarbonised electricity system in 2035. A co-production research model was adopted, designed to integrate diverse forms of knowledge and perspectives in the co-production of knowledge on heat pump flexibility. A series of participatory activities were undertaken including a one-day workshop. Elements of a common vision emerged, such as the anticipated widespread flexible operation of heat pumps as the cheapest way of running a heat pump and the likelihood of a highly automated and remote-controlled manner of operation. Disagreements and unknowns also emerged. This work aims to support stakeholders in planning for the social, technical and economic aspects of flexible heat pump operation in their own organisations.
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  [[**UA] Quote: "There were differing opinions on the necessary level of understanding from customers, both in terms of the bigger picture of why shifting was being carried out and also how to operate their own heat pump."]