International Energy Agency Technology Collaboration Programme (IEA TCP) Alternate Delegates (AD) Procurement 2023 - 2025

The role of alternate delegate includes general tasks common to all TCPs, including additional tasks such as active participation in annex work. All delegates are expected to be able to complete all tasks, and the general tasks below are considered a minimum requirement.

The minimum requirement is expected to correspond to 11 days per financial year. The minimum time requirement for the first financial year of the contract (May 23-March 24) is 10 days, leading to the total minimum time requirement over the duration of the contract to be 21 days.

Lot 1 also includes an additional annex of work to lead an Energy Storage task.

The role of Alternate Delegate is to represent the UK on the executive committee of the respective IEA TCP, both in person at 6 monthly international ExCo meetings but also in ongoing TCP activities including domain specific tasks.

More detailed information on the activities of the TCP covered in this procurement can be found below:

• www.iea-shc.org ↗

The AD role consists of the following tasks and roles

• Leading delivery of the research element of the UK’s participation in the TCP.
• Attending ExCo Meetings (twice per year).
• Attending TCP Research Workshops, National Team Meetings, and Annex working groups. Annex working groups are aimed at delivering a specific task or output, which will advance the knowledge base of the TCP.
• Managing the National Team, which represents a group of interested parties of typically 5 to 20 (depending on TCP) experts from NGOs, academia, and industry. They meet 1-4 times a year, and participate in relevant annexes.
• ExCo activities: preparing the annual report (gathering relevant national information on innovations in the TCP area, deployment, research progress, total UK funding etc), discussing the state of research and knowledge of the technology at the meetings, learning about gaps and state of technology in different countries.
• Reviewing proposals for new TCP research/annexes.
• Contributing to the organisation and management of the TCP with the secretariat.
• Coordinating UK communications for the TCP.
• Where necessary/useful, liaising with ADs from other TCPs.
• Producing an annual report for BEIS on TCP activity during the year, for the attention of the Engineering and Research Programme board (new requirement).
• Dissemination: promoting nationally and internationally at conferences and global events the UK and IEA TCP activities.

The SHC AD role includes scope and budget to take part in a SHC TCP project on ‘Smart Hot Water’ with the following scope and objectives:

Scope

The project (IEA SHC Task 69 Sub Task C) will research the use of residential/domestic/consumer smart power diverters/controllers for domestic hot water heating (smart water heaters). This category of products is often co-located with rooftop solar photovoltaic arrays; they take power from a solar photovoltaic array and use it for heating domestic hot water (via an electrical heating system, which can be direct immersion heating, HPs or via an intermediary battery) thereby avoiding purchase of energy from the grid and increasing the bill savings of homes with PV arrays. As such, smart water heaters represent a potentially highly cost-effective bill reduction technology. As a relatively new technology, the evidence base for the operational characteristics, technical potential and real world bill savings is evolving and there is a need for a firmer base on which to support policy making. The role of smart water heating in Demand Side Response systems is also relatively unknown.

Objectives

• To scope the energy bill saving potential of smart water heaters compared to other solutions such as battery storage, assess the ability to integrate with other hot water and space heating technologies to provide an optimal whole home solution, and consider potential network benefits.
• To contribute to improving the SAP methodology (the calculation methodology behind domestic Energy Performance Certificates) by better understanding the diverter market and the various types of technology in the category, their operating characteristics and energy saving potential.
• To identify the innovation opportunities (technical and market) which can increase the performance, reduce the cost, and improve the reliability of smart water heaters using smart power diverters. Additional information: Further objectives of IEA SHC Task 69 Sub Task C
• Although the focus of this project is on domestic smart solar water heaters, the information from the project will also provide intelligence for larger scale systems (industrial & district smart water heaters) and other types of domestic power diverters (eg car chargers, space heaters and cookers).

The role of alternate delegate includes general tasks common to all TCPs, including additional tasks such as active participation in annex work. All delegates are expected to be able to complete all tasks, and the general tasks below are considered a minimum requirement.

The minimum requirement is expected to correspond to 11 days per financial year. The minimum time requirement for the first financial year of the contract (May 23-March 24) is 10 days, leading to the total minimum time requirement over the duration of the contract to be 21 days.