Earth Notes: General Bibliography (rowland2026HEMS)

• [rowland2026HEMS] Claire Rowland Making home energy management work for consumers (accessed 2026-02-12), UK Energy Systems Catapult, 2026-02-12 (www) (BibTeX).
  abstract

  As UK homes adopt more low-carbon technologies — electric vehicles (EVs), heat pumps, batteries, and solar panels — these devices increasingly need to coordinate with each other. Without this important coordination between devices, they can potentially work at cross-purposes. For example, importing expensive peak power for heating while simultaneously exporting battery power, misses an opportunity for self-consumption and bill savings. Home energy management systems (HEMS) exist to solve this.
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  [[**UA] Quote: "At the technical layer, widespread adoption of emerging standards like Matter, PAS 1878, and OpenADR will create the foundation for reliable interoperability. At the experience layer, the industry needs automated, set-and-forget systems that work without constant user intervention. These need careful user experience (UX) design, tested with diverse users, not just early adopters, to ensure the consumer experience is not overwhelming. At the market layer, tariff structures and flexibility mechanisms must better align individual benefit with system benefit, rewarding behaviours like self-consumption rather than enabling perverse incentives. At the institutional layer, SSES-mandated standards for device permission transfer will reduce switching friction, once implemented. Service providers will need to invest in technical support, providing customer service staff equipped to diagnose multi-system problems and communicate transparently when systems behave unexpectedly."]