THE REMIT
ICARB - THE INITIATIVE FOR CARBON ACCOUNTING
Purpose: ICARB provides a space for technical experts, academics,
policy and decision makers and practitioners alike to:
• A Forum to discuss and agree and ways forward in the
development of Relevant, Complete, Consistent, Transparent and
Accurate accounting tools
• To share technical challenges and solutions
• To be part of a capacity building process across Scottish sectors
and stakeholders in the emerging Low Carbon Economy

2011 ICARB Conference programme
2014:
1. City Level Carbon Accounting Studies: Funded by the Michael
Ventris Award, London.
2. Workshops: Supported by the Energy Technology Partnership,
ERDF, The Castansa Trust, CIBSE and the Climate X Change
• Backcasting Scotland’s Energy Future 2030
http://icarb.org/2014/06/02/backcasting-summit/
• Energy Storgage workshop – 21st October 2014
http://icarb.org/energy-workshop/

6th ICARB Conference 5th September 2014

Backcasting for 100% Renewables in Scotland in
2030:
Today from visions to pathways & agendas
Jaco Quist, j.n.quist@tudelft.nl
Energy & Industry Section
Faculty of Technology, Policy,
Management

1. Backcasting: recap
Backcasting: Create a desirable sustainable
future first before looking back from that
future how it could have been achieved and
planning initial steps how to move towards
that future.
Backcasting: Particularly useful in case of
complex ‘wicked’ problems that include
dominant trends; when market-based
solutions are insufficient; a need for a
major change; long time horizons allow
strong alternatives (Dreborg ’96)27-10-2011

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Backcasting: from vision to action
1. SPO
2. Make
vision
3. BC
4. Pathway &
Agenda
5. Embedding &
Implementation

1) Generating a credible / desirable
energy future for Scotland
2) Scoping out the roles of Technologies
in that Future
UK Centric scenario: Electricity production and
storage is based on large scale technology and
mega-grid projects in the UK and its vicinity.
Standalone Scottish Network scenario: All
regions in Scotland make extensive use of their
regional renewables potential.
Local Energy Autarky scenario: In this
scenario, small-scale decentralised energy
systems, at building, campus or estate,
community, city and other scales, largely using
locally available renewable energy sources,
maximally efficient technologies and storage to
satisfy their own power demand without
electricity imports.

All Visions of an optimised Future require Storage

WHICH IS WHY WE ARE HERE TODAY
www.icarb.org
This years particularly wants to thank :
The Castanza Trust and our other Sponsors
And the speakers, facilitators, scribes and all of you for coming

PROGRAMME
9.00 – 9.30 Coffee and Registration
9.30 – 9.40 Welcome Professor Sue Roaf, ICARB
9.40 – 10.00 Emerging Scottish Policy to promote energy storage Chris Stark, Deputy Director,
Energy and Climate Change, Head of Electricity, Scottish Government
10.00 – 10.45 The Role of Storage in Smart Energy Systems, Professor Henrik Lund, Aalborg
University, Denmark
10.45 – 11.15 Storage integration in heating systems at domestic, community and industrial
scales. Prof. Klaus Vajen, Kassel University, Germany
11.15 – 11.45 Tea and Coffee
11.45 – 12.15 Inter-seasonal heat storage systems: Lessons from the Danish Experience, Dr
Ebbe Münster, PlanEnergi, Denmark
12.15 – 12.45 Energy storage in urban multi-energy systems, Prof. Marco Masoero, Politecnico
di Torino
12.45 – 13.15 Optimising energy storage within micro-grid systems, Eddie Owens, Heriot Watt
University
13.15 – 13.45 Why Energy Storage? Dr Grant Wilson, University of Sheffield
13.45 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30 – 16.30 Six Workshops will run in parallel – with Tea and Coffee:

Workshop 1: Thermal Storage Systems for
Buildings and Communities. Chair: Professor
Ian M. Arbon with Professor Klaus Vajen and
Ebbe Munster
Workshop 2: Energy storage media: Phase
Change Materials, oils, chemicals, solids and
Thermal Mass, Chair: Professor Colin
Pulham, Edinburgh University
Workshop 3: Grid level energy storage for
electricity and transport. Chair: Dr. Iain
Staffell, Imperial College, London
Workshop 4: Energy Storage and Conversions
with Hydrogen & Fuel Cells. Chair: Dr. Nigel
Holmes, Scottish Hydrogen & Fuel Cell
Association
Workshop 5: Origin: Control systems for
optimising micro-grids and thermal systems.
Chair: Dr. Eddie Owens, Heriot Watt University
Workshop 6: Charging ahead with Battery
Technology. Chair Dr. Nick Bennett, Heriot Watt
University
16.30 – 16.50 Workshop Feedback
16.50 – 17.00 Next Steps and Thank You
Professor Sue Roaf, Heriot Watt University
17.00 – 18.00 CIBSE sponsored Reception and
Networking