Bibliographic record
Abstract
Northern Ireland’s natural resource environment is <br/>‘brimming with home grown’ energy opportunities <br/>including; a diverse and thermally-rich geology, windy <br/>undulating drumlins, and maritime zones; moreover, an <br/>emerging array of renewable technology projects, some of <br/>which are under consideration, in-progress or completed. <br/>We are arguably in a time period when some of the greatest <br/>energy changes are a foot – ‘a golden age’, so to speak. <br/>Staying on top of, and up-to-date with, this ever-changing <br/>energy environment is no small task. Data repositories, <br/>reports, websites, and social media feeds all help. <br/>Organising workshops too can serve to inform, energise, <br/>and mobilise networks, further collective network goals, <br/>build confidence, kick-start collaborations, and hatch as <br/>well as spur project ideas and capital investments. This <br/>workshop briefing note reports on all of the above.<br/>Held on the 4th July 2023 and entitled ‘Building the <br/>Geothermal Energy Sector in Northern Ireland,’ the <br/>workshop was co-organised and co-hosted by Queen’s <br/>University Belfast with the Northern Ireland Housing <br/>Executive. It comprised multi-stakeholders, as well as <br/>keynote speakers, panel discussions, and question <br/>and answer sessions. Significantly, our workshop also <br/>marked the construction completion of the new Business <br/>School building at Riddel Hall, which, coincidently has a <br/>geothermal heating system. <br/><br/>With 120 participants in attendance, our workshop aimed <br/>to provide practitioner-led project updates across the <br/>geoenergy nexuses. Richard Rodgers, Head of Energy and <br/>Deputy Secretary of the Department for the Economy <br/>opened our workshop, before keynote presentations by Dr <br/>Matt Trewhella, Chief Executive Officer, Kensa Group, and <br/>Sara Lynch, Head of Sustainability, Estates Directorate, <br/>Queen’s University Belfast. The workshop activities <br/>overall generated a range of thoughtful conversations and <br/>discernible themes: <br/>Theme 1 — More awareness of established geoenergy <br/>blueprint elsewhere in the United Kingdom and further <br/>afield. Kensa Heat Pumps Ltd demonstrated exemplary <br/>cases of geothermal and ground source heat pump (GSHP) <br/>applications from across the UK. <br/>Theme 2 — Increase emphasis and overlap in both the <br/>quality and energy trilemma issues in the energy transition.<br/>Theme 3 — Government subvention support, political <br/>engagement and big society conversations beyond the <br/>important strides made with the NI Energy Strategy Action <br/>Plan 2022, Heat Policy frameworks. <br/>Theme 4 — Significant value co-creation and socialisation <br/>of costs by pivoting and collaboratively working across <br/>ecosystem nexuses. Integrated data fusion thinking <br/>between geology, front-end heating engineering and <br/>business models. <br/>Theme 5 — Behavioural change among consumers will be <br/>an important component of the level of decarbonisation <br/>envisaged with retrofitting of homes, heat pump switching, <br/>heat demand optimisation, and heat network development.<br/>Theme 6 — Leapfrog pathway development with general <br/>UK policy and the Energy Bill to close and progress the <br/>legislation gaps between the NI Utility Regulator and Ofgem. <br/>Also, increase the local Assembly or policy-makers’ capacity <br/>to bring forward legislation commensurate with the other <br/>devolved UK governments.<br/><br/>Overall therefore, our main conclusion from the workshop <br/>is that sector-building efforts require the pivoting of <br/>the geoenergy nexuses towards multiple ecosystems. <br/>Developing the different geoenergy ecosystem perspectives <br/>and pivoting with the 10-point axis are additional key focus <br/>areas for sector-building and policy development.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".