Domestic Heating, Cooking and Baseload Emissions and Life Cycle Cost Analysis of Technological Solutions

This paper presents a new framework which fills the gap between heating technology comparison and home energy management studies by holistically considering all home energy demands. The paper answers what the cost and emissions optimal technology combinations are to meet these demands and how the inclusion of baseload and cooking demands change the technology landscape. Evaluation is completed for hundreds of heating and ancillary system combinations to show their economic and environmental potential, with optimisation using lowest net present cost (NPC) solutions. Analysis is completed for an average UK dwelling, results indicate high capital expenditure (CapEx) electrified systems result in the lowest NPC solutions and lowest emissions, ideally coupled with solar photovoltaics (PV) especially with the increased demand when including baseload demand. When including cooking fuels, Blue Hydrogen has a slight increased potential due to similar cooking efficiencies to electric cooking, but with potentially lower fuel emissions than current grid generated electricity emissions.