Cooling supply technology in the UK is mostly deployed for commercial or industrial needs. Understanding the implications of adopting cooling systems at household or community level, and even using individual heating systems such as reversible heat pumps to provide cooling services as we move towards future electrified heating, is thus highly relevant as cooling demand is expected to increase. At the same time, examining the role of storage to improve the performance of a cooling system whilst meeting consumer demand and to provide flexibility services (e.g. peak demand reduction, load shifting) is of significant value.

Consumers defined in WP1 and their prospective future cooling demand profiles will be adopted. In addition to simulation-based work, a novel assessment of public acceptability of cooling technology (including storage at household level) and of the current policy/governance status of thermal storage and the potential implications of storage and the flexibility provision from cooling systems into electricity networks will be conducted.