Smart Energy Research Lab (SERL)
The Smart Energy Research Lab (SERL) is a publicly funded UK research project which aims to make domestic smart mater data - shared by consenting households - available to accredited UK academic researchers. The half-hourly gas and electricity consumption data available from SMETS2 smart meters has the potential - especially when linked with other large datasets - to underpin novel research into domestic energy demand that could help combat climate change, develop the smart grid and reduce the cost of domestic energy. The UK government has invested some £20 billion to install smart meters in 53m UK homes by 2020.
Background[edit]
In 2017 the Smart Energy Research Lab (originally called the Smart Meter Research Portal) was funded £6m by the UK Research Councils to carry out a 5-year project that would create a portal for gathering smart meter data from participating GB households via the DCC Gateway[1]. The anonymised data gathered from consenting households is stored in a state-of-the-art big data platform at the University of Essex's UK Data Archive. Accredited UK academic researchers are then able to access the data to carry out their research into energy consumption in the UK with the intention of producing new insights that can inform government policy and influence industry practices to reduce energy demand.
Partners[edit]
SERL is led from University College London by Professor Tadj Oreszczyn and Directed by Simon Elam. The consortium is made up of a further seven partners:
- Cardiff University
- University of Edinburgh
- University of Essex
- Energy Saving Trust
- Leeds Beckett University
- Loughborough University
- University of Southampton
See also[edit]
- UK government information about the UK Smart Meter Rollout
- Smart Energy GB information about the UK Smart Meter Rollout
External links[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Award of Smart Meters DCC Licence". GOV.UK. Retrieved 2019-07-12.
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