Imperial College London
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DrRichardHanna

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Centre for Environmental Policy

Research Associate
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 9248r.hanna

 
 
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Location

 

16 Prince's GardensSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@inbook{Hanna:2021,
author = {Hanna, R and Gross, R},
booktitle = {Research Handbook on Energy and Society},
publisher = {Edward Elgar Publishing},
title = {Heating system transformation in Europe: accelerating sources of path dependence to escape carbon lock-in},
year = {2021}
}
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TY  - CHAP
AB  - In this chapter, we present evidence from a systematic review on how policies, markets and natural resource availability have affected heat system change and decarbonisation in Denmark, Germany, and the United Kingdom. We focus on two heat supply technologies for which sufficient historic evidence of policies and market evolution is available: heat pumps and district heating. Our review reveals that initially unfamiliar, low carbon heating technologies can become mainstream over several decades. A key challenge of heat decarbonisation is transitioning from relatively low-cost heating sources that are either inherited from a country’s natural resources or originate from path-dependent developments. This may involve accepting initially higher costs, developing new infrastructure, and co-ordinated consumer awareness campaigns to promote low carbon heating alternatives. To overcome lock-in to high carbon heating, policy makers should aim to stimulate increasing returns to adoption of alternative, low carbon heating solutions over a prolonged period of policy action.
AU  - Hanna,R
AU  - Gross,R
PB  - Edward Elgar Publishing
PY  - 2021///
SN  - 9781839100703
TI  - Heating system transformation in Europe: accelerating sources of path dependence to escape carbon lock-in
T1  - Research Handbook on Energy and Society
ER  -
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